Interview Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/category/interview/ Supporting parents and carers in the UK screen sector Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:08:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.raisingfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-raising-films-favicon-32x32.png Interview Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/category/interview/ 32 32 Interview with Victoria Mapplebeck, Director of MOTHERBOARD https://www.raisingfilms.com/interview-with-victoria-mapplebeck-director-of-motherboard/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:46:10 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=35004 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 Festival in 2024 and won Victoria the WFTV Best Director award. There will be a screening and Q&A at the [...]

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]]> Interview with James Henry, Writer https://www.raisingfilms.com/the-raising-films-interview-james-henry/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:00:12 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=32843 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, although now they’re twelve and fourteen, there’s not quite so much looking after to do. When they were very young, [...]

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]]> Interview with Frances Galt to mark publication of Women’s Activism Behind the Screens https://www.raisingfilms.com/frances-galt-interview-womens-activism/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:21:25 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=27461 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 at the history of women’s struggles for equality within unions in the screen industry, to show the lessons of how [...]

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]]> David Proud on moving from acting to filmmaking (DDA season) https://www.raisingfilms.com/david-proud-moving-from-acting-to-filmmaking/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:57:18 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=26764 As part of our series of articles to mark the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act Raising Films spoke to David Proud about his experience of moving from actor to filmmaking, the challenges along that journey and the power of building a team of allies. What obstacles have you overcome and how did [...]

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]]> The team behind ROCKS talks to Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/rocks-team-talk-to-raising-films/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:18:06 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=24642 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 and the ROCKS team for finding the time to take part in this interview. [...]

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]]> Interview with Ming Ho to mark Carers Week 2020 https://www.raisingfilms.com/interview-with-ming-ho-carers-week-2020/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:01:22 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=23144 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 Up UK, the BFI and Directors UK. Straight after the launch the Society of [...]

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]]> Making radio and being a parent https://www.raisingfilms.com/making-radio-and-being-a-parent/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:25:24 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=23107 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 for a socially distanced chat about producing the series. Tamsyn: Can you tell me [...]

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]]> Taking a story of dementia from page to screen https://www.raisingfilms.com/taking-a-story-of-dementia-from-page-to-screen/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:11:44 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=21483 Raising Films caught up with screenwriter Andrea Gibb on her latest work ELIZABETH IS MISSING. Andrea talked to us about transferring Emma Healey's novel of the same name to the screen and how her personal experience of caring was reflected in her approach. ELIZABETH IS MISSING stars Glenda Jackson as Maud, an elderly woman [...]

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]]> Experiences of caring https://www.raisingfilms.com/experiences-of-caring/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:23:40 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17557 Ahead of the launch of We Need To Talk About Caring, our survey into caring within the screen industries, we invited our community to share their experiences of caring. Huge gratitude goes out for the openess and willingness shown by those people who have kindly taken the time to get in touch with us. [...]

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]]> Emily Atef interview https://www.raisingfilms.com/emily-atef-interview/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:21:43 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17399 We grabbed some time with Emily Atef, director of 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON, to ask her about the process of making the film, her experience of working in TV and the ongoing challenges of balancing all the aspects of a busy life. Romy Schneider is a beloved figure - did you have any concerns [...]

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