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Samar Ziadat on the need for safe community spaces
In this final provocation of the series Samar Ziadat explores the vital need for safe community spaces within the context of the current political climate. Samar is a co-founder of Dardishi, and the project’s [...]
Visual response to Raising Our Futures
Raising Films commissioned Alex J Gardner, an artist and designer, to illustrate the responses to our Raising Our Futures initiative. Alex's gorgeous, powerful and we hope inspiring, linocut response is [...]
Robert Softley Gale on adaptability
For our fourth provocation Robert Softley Gale, Artistic Director, Birds of Paradise Theatre Company shares his thoughts on adaptability across working life and parenting life. Over to Robert... A few weeks ago my twin boys [...]
Sade Banks on allowing space and time for self-care as a working mother
For our third provocation Sade Banks, founder and CEO of Sour Lemons (a charity that exists to disrupt decision making tables in the creative and cultural sectors), takes some time to talk about leaving [...]
ScreenSkills Making It Possible 2020 in association with Raising Films
"It is still the single best professional development training and networking I’ve ever done. It completely changed my perception of how to combine my career and parenting; and, most importantly for me at the [...]
Naomi Mwasambili on the future of care and the #BlackLivesMatter movement
For the second in our series of provocations we teamed up with Dr Erinma Ochu, Curator, Sheffield Doc/Fest Exchange and social entrepreneur Naomi Mwasambili of Chanua and NEUROLOVE. Naomi Mwasambili, through NEUROLOVE, is working [...]
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The team behind ROCKS talks to Raising Films
Ahead of the release of ROCKS in cinemas across the UK and Ireland this Friday 18 September Raising Films spoke to the creative team behind the film, with the interview conducted by Grace Barber [...]
On identity, film, parenting and caring
Davina Quinlivan, Senior Lecturer in Film, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, is a mother to two small boys and a carer for her elderly mother. In this piece Davina explains how and why [...]
Overcoming parental, age and gender worries
For our latest community story Carla Buckingham asks, "Am I too old, too female or too ‘Mummy’ to make the cut in TV and film?" This is personal account of the journey Carla took [...]
Flexible Working in TV: A way through COVID-19 and beyond
The wonderful Share My Telly Job and The Talent Manager recently ran a live webinar 'Flexible Working in TV: A way through COVID-19 and beyond' with over 500 attendees. In case you were unable [...]
Manjinder Virk on creativity during lockdown
On set for WITH LOVE FROM CALAIS; Annemarie Lean-Vercoe on camera, Manjinder directing her daughter, Lyla. Director Manjinder Virk shares her experience of making her latest film, 23 DAYS, entirely in lockdown with her [...]
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 [...]