Stories from our community
Interview with Naomi Waring, Screenwriter & Director
We are so proud to support the launch of a new series of online fireside chats with inspiring parents and carers working in the screen industries, hosted by Elinor Coleman of Ask Mother Productions. The [...]
Interview with Victoria Mapplebeck, Director of MOTHERBOARD
MOTHERBOARD is a smartphone feature exploring motherhood, filmed over 20 years by BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck. Motherboard charts the joy, pain and comedy of raising a child alone. Motherboard premiered at the London Film [...]
Interview with James Henry, Writer
What do you do? I’m a full-time scriptwriter, working in television, radio and animation, based in Cornwall Who do you look after? I share childcare with my wife for my two children, Eliza and William, [...]
Choosing to make a feature film in lockdown with three kids
Laura Rees (who participated in Making It Possible 2020) on her decision to do a difficult, stressful and complicated thing at a difficult, stressful and complicated time AKA making a feature film during lockdown... [...]
Interview with Frances Galt to mark publication of Women’s Activism Behind the Screens
So Mayer, one of Raising Films’ co-founders recently interviewed Frances Galt about their new publication Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries, a look [...]
Am I still a filmmaker?
Ahead of the (online) release of their latest work - AYOUNI - filmmaker Yasmin Fedda reflects on being an independent filmmaker and parent and shares ideas for how things should (and can) change to [...]
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Film Fatal Report on Caring Responsibilities in the Austrian Film Industry
Congratulations to our friends Film Fatal in Austria, who have recently completed their first study on the compatibility of work and care responsibilities for film industry. Headline: it's fatal! Or as they say: "Filmmaking: be [...]
Raising Films Awarded BIFA’s Special Jury Prize
On Sunday 5 December, Raising Films attended the 24th British Independent Film Awards live at Old Billingsgate, where we were honoured to receive the Special Jury Prize. Awarded by the BIFA Main Jury, which [...]
How We Work Now – our report is live
This week, we publish our survey-based report How We Work Now, highlighting the urgent need for collective action addressing the issues faced by screen industries’ carers and parents, exacerbated by COVID-19 yet long pre-dating [...]
How We Work Now – a survey into the impact of COVID-19
Today (Monday 17 May, 2021) Raising Films launched its next major piece of research - HOW WE WORK NOW and asks anyone who works or has worked in the UK screen sector while being [...]
New festival awarded the Raising Films Ribbon
The North East International Film Festival (NEIFF) is the first festival to be awarded the Raising Films Ribbon. Lisa-Marie Tonelli founded the festival during the pandemic and NEIFF went online in 2020, with the [...]
Bringing a young carer’s story to the screen
The latest Raising Films Ribbon award goes to a short film production and its director Marnie Baxter for bringing a story about a young carer to the screen to help lift the isolation often [...]