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 this year included Jennifer Ehle, Alice [...]
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 the pandemic. How We Work Now [...]
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 a parent and/or caring (unpaid) for [...]
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 [...]
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 felt by young carers and to [...]
Image: PhotoClub and Photography is Fun after-school clubs, courtesy Digital Voice. The Raising Films Ribbon has been awarded to Digital Voice following an application from Victoria Nunn (who previously worked at Bridge and Tunnel Productions – another Ribbon awardee). [...]
In early March we released our latest piece of research - BACK FROM THE BRINK, a scoping study (supported by the BFI using funds from the National Lottery) addressing the impacts of COVID-19 reported by parents and carers working in [...]
Producer April Kelley is the founder of Mini Productions, the latest recipient of our Raising Films Ribbon. Ahead of going into production on two short films - DO THIS FOR ME and JUST IN CASE - April talked to Raising [...]
The latest iteration of our ScreenSkills supported Making It Possible personal and career development programme has now reached an end for our three groups of participants. This programme is supported by ScreenSkills using National Lottery funds awarded by the BFI [...]
We're delighted to share our latest piece of work with you... Our Creating Inclusive Productions Resource covers the full life-span of a production - from Development & Financing through to Festivals & Distribution, it also includes a case study of a [...]
In this final provocation of the series Samar Ziadat explores the vital need for safe community spaces within the context of the current political climate. Samar is a co-founder of Dardishi, and the project’s Programmer and Coordinator. She is also [...]
Raising Films commissioned Alex J Gardner, an artist and designer, to illustrate the responses to our Raising Our Futures initiative. Alex's gorgeous, powerful and we hope inspiring, linocut response is available as a colouring in sheet [...]
For our fourth provocation Robert Softley Gale, Artistic Director, Birds of Paradise Theatre Company shares his thoughts on adaptability across working life and parenting life. Over to Robert... A few weeks ago my twin boys turned one. I remember thinking way [...]
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 secure full-time employment, setting up her [...]
"It is still the single best professional development training and networking I’ve ever done. It completely changed my perception of how to combine my career and parenting; and, most importantly for me at the time, really expanded my network. I [...]
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 in partnership with Dr Erinma Ochu [...]
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 [...]
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 of Business & Partnerships, BCOMs (The [...]
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 - created Raising Films as a [...]
When the current coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis is over, what will the film and TV landscape look like? We’re all living in extraordinary times, where the intersection of our personal and professional lives has never been more apparent. Extraordinary times, where [...]
