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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
Raising Films is delighted to announce a fully online version of our popular Making It Possible personal and career development programme across July, August and September. Making It Possible 2020 is supported by ScreenSkills [...]
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 [...]
Interview with Ming Ho to mark Carers Week 2020
In 2019 Raising Films launched our report We Need To Talk About Caring at an event in London, we were hosted by Equity and welcomed guests from Carers UK, the Society of Authors, the [...]
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 [...]
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Stories from our community
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 [...]
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 [...]