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Carina White on telling black stories not rooted in trauma
In the first of our series of provocations to mark five years of Raising Films we welcome Carina White from Dope Black Mums on telling black stories not rooted in trauma. Carina is Head [...]
Raising Films reaches its half decade
Today (Thursday 21 May) Raising Films is five! Raising Films was ‘birthed’ in Cannes back in 2015 and the five founders - Nicky Bentham, Hope Dickson Leach, Line Langebek, Jessica Levick and So Mayer [...]
Raising Our Futures
When the current coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis is over, what will the film and TV landscape look like? We’re all living in extraordinary times, where the intersection of our personal and professional lives has never [...]
Raising Films Writer Residencies Spring 2020
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS NOW 9am MONDAY 16 MARCH! Raising Films is seeking to support four writers (either individuals or pairs) by providing a free residency space for the week of Monday 20 to [...]
Casey Herbert on ribbon award production The Last Right
One of our ribbon awards during the summer went to Casey Herbert a producer working on her second feature. Ahead of the release of THE LAST RIGHT we caught up with Casey to look [...]
Caring for crew on a drama production
The latest Raising Films ribbon goes to BBC Scotland drama production GUILT and specifically producer Jules Hussey (Brazen Productions). As an experience producer and line producer across projects like CATHERINE THE GREAT (Sky Atlantic) [...]
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Making radio and being a parent
Ruth Abrahams is an independent Radio Producer and Media Relations Manager whose radio series ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy’ is currently running on BBC Radio 4. Dr Tamsyn Dent, Raising Films’ researcher, took some [...]
Fighting the inner battle and carving out time
One of our Making It Possible participants - Kirsty Robinson-Ward - kindly took some time out to share her thoughts on how the parent/work/life balance affects women across every career stage, how carving out [...]
Job sharing at the BBC
Patty (left) and Sarah “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of children must be in need of a job-wife.” Patty Papageorgiou and Sarah Beatrice shared a job role at [...]
Taking a story of dementia from page to screen
Raising Films caught up with screenwriter Andrea Gibb on her latest work ELIZABETH IS MISSING. Andrea talked to us about transferring Emma Healey's novel of the same name to the screen and how her [...]
Job-sharing in the Art Department
May Davies is an emerging Production Designer working on short films, live performance and art installation. She has recently completed her first two indie feature films as designer and when she's not designing she [...]
Kim Albright shares parenthood and production
Kim Albright took some time out (fuelled by caffiene and sugar) to write a piece for Raising Films about production and parenthood. Thanks Kim, over to you! One kid is asleep (I think, I [...]