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 inaugural festival taking place later this [...]
Producer Victoria Bavister shares the story of the making of her debut and BIFA-nominated feature – COUNTY LINES - from the grind of financing, through to production and eventual release. Read on to find out how Victoria balanced filmmaking with [...]
If you’ve seen any pictures or videos of the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), you might be led into thinking that BIFA is a fairly big organisation with an impressive central London office and maybe some screening rooms to boot. [...]
There are plenty of stories here on the Raising Films website about how film festivals can get it so very wrong when it comes to accommodating attendees and delegates with children, so we are delighted to share this most excellent account [...]
Film programmer Gaia Meucci Astley explains how the uncertainty of freelance work and the logistics of juggling availability for work with childcare was eased with support from the Family Support Fund from The Film & Television Charity. Over to Gaia… Since [...]
Here at Raising Films we’re finalising our approach to giving recognition to those people, productions, companies and organisations working in the spirit of what Raising Films stands for. We anticipate this recognition will take the form of a mark that [...]
We caught up with the creative team behind A Deal With The Universe, a feature documentary that premiered (to standing ovation) at last year’s Flare Film Festival, to talk about the team’s history with Raising Films and how they made [...]
You’re Head of Marketing for the Locarno Festival – which provides childcare for its guests and delegates! Can you tell us about how the Festival came about with that decision? The Locarno Festival has always tried to offer a 360-degree experience [...]
Paul Sturtz is Co-Conspirator (with David Wilson) of True/False, an "transformative, rambunctious, ecstatic" film festival and community in Columbia, Missouri. The festival is committed to nonfiction filmmaking and to environmental and social justice. In 2017, True/False partnered with Kickstarter to support childcare provision [...]
Annemarie had two films premiere as official selections of the Cannes Film Festival. One in Venice and most recently Berlinale where W hen I Saw You won Best Asian Film. Founder of Philistine Films, she’s made over sixteen films and collaborates [...]
I went to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival to acquire some DTV films for UK release on my distribution label, and also to help find distributors for the slate of British and Irish films I had brought to the market for [...]
The biggest takeaway from our experience providing free childcare in a mobile unit we named the Wee Wagon, at SXSW 2017, was this: it's possible. That may seem unremarkable compared with the incredible response from parent-filmmakers, who called the Wee Wagon "an [...]
Hope Dickson Leach: ALICE. Alice Lowe: Yes Hope. HDL: We met in person for the first time in Toronto. You’d just come from Venice and for me it was my world premiere. I had left my children at home and you [...]
Ashley Sabin produces, directs, photographs and edits critically-acclaimed cinematic documentaries that have screened internationally in festivals and on television worldwide at Sundance, Toronto, Cinema du Reel, Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, RIDM, MoMA, and Viennale Film Festivals and on PBS, POV, BBC, [...]
Filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach reflects on the last couple of weeks representing Raising Films at a range of exciting events that took place around the UK The last week has seen a flurry of activity around the country. Gatherings of people looking to [...]
As a young producer’s assistant, then script editor, then head of development, I was too busy working and chasing the next bit of development funding to think about kids. But by 30, I’d built up enough regular freelance script editing clients [...]
I have recently come to three realizations about being a filmmaker and a parent. The first is that everything comes down to money. The second is that the challenges facing parents in the industry disproportionately affect women. The third is that [...]
"I'm excited, and a little unnerved, to be part of this original event, which brings my professional and parental responsibilities into the same space for the first time," said Making Films, Making Change panellist Jennifer Armitage, Screen Officer at Creative Scotland. It was the first time [...]
The average wage in the creative industries is £16,575. The average cost of a full time nursery place in London is £14,750 (Creative Blueprint via PIPA) That's why Parents in Performing Arts (PIPA) are crowdfunding to hold public meetings and lobby theatres to [...]
It's six in the morning in a basement apartment in Cannes. Birds are singing in the garden and in the room next to me a baby is gurgling. My producer Rachel Robey and I are here to announce our feature film [...]