We were so delighted to partner with Elinor Coleman of Ask Mother Productions on the first of a series of online talks about caring responsibilities and making work for the screen. Elinor talked to Northern Irish filmmaker Naomi Waring in early [...]
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 Plentie. We're so grateful to Grace [...]
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 Film and TV Charity, PiPA, Times [...]
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 time to catch up with Ruth [...]
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 the BBC and they sat down [...]
Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish filmmaker and painter currently living in London. His most recent feature film is Whisky Galore (2016), and his award-winning films include Hideous Kinky (1997), Regeneration (1996), and Small Faces (1995), which he wrote with and which was produced by his brother [...]
So the stats are in and only one in every million directors gets to make a second feature - and chances are four hundred times lower if you’re a woman. (There are real stats about this but I can’t [be bothered [...]
Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film in the English Department at Exeter University and the investigator on in a major new four-year research project on contemporary women filmmakers led by Dr. Shelley Cobb and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, [...]
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