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 dedicated (and guilt-free) time to focus [...]
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 [...]
Marnie Baxter shares her experience of combining acting and working behind the camera on her short film BAD MOTHER, plus the juggling act of balancing parenting with filmmaking and why being a mother adds another dimension to her work. I’ve [...]
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 [...]
I didn’t really ever factor in being a parent combined with being a creative. Although I anticipated being a parent would impact my career in a negative way - I did my best not to let it by never really taking [...]
I was lucky enough to hang out briefly with the American director Jill Soloway (we share some close friends in LA), and I’ve followed her career with much admiration. One of the things she does on set is have a daily emotional check-in [...]
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 [...]
So first a little bit about us. I am a freelance drama director and my husband Joel is a visual effects supervisor at Double Negative. We wanted to write this testimonial together as for us its very much a case of [...]
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, [...]
We took each day as it came during my unpaid maternity leave when I had my second baby. We are not entitled to anything, I thought, this is a result of our chosen careers, the careers we love. I work as [...]
Zeb Achonu is an Associate Member of the Guild of British Film & TV Editors (GBFTE) and has extensive experience in editing across a wide range of genres, most notably factual and entertainment. She spent 9 years working for the BBC [...]
From the moment we met Alison [Carter-Goulden, assistant editor] and started talking, her competency and efficiency convinced me that a job-share could work well. Her and Erline [O'Donovan]'s relationship with Jonathan [Morris, editor] was the most important thing, and that worked perfectly. Alison and Erline set [...]
Jonathan Morris has been Ken Loach's regular editor since Hidden Agenda (1990), working on both features and documentaries, as well as editing documentaries for directors including John Pilger. Most recently, worked with Alison Carter-Goulden and Erline O'Donovan, who job-shared as assistant editors (read our interview [...]
Desperate Optimists are Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. Born in Dublin, Ireland, they studied theatre in the UK in the late 80s. From 1992 to 1999 they toured six internationally acclaimed devised theatre shows. Between 2000 and 2003 they directed a number of [...]
The Levelling receives its world premiere tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival. In our final diary instalment writer/director Hope Dickson Leach (HDL) talks to her husband Phil Miller (PJEM) about primary parenting, routine and freezers full of food. HDL: The [...]
Tonight, PREVENGE receives its world premiere at Venice Critics' Week. Below, in our third instalment of The Prevenge diaries, Alice Lowe talks us through the edit process with a tiny baby on her lap. I find that with films, as with [...]
Sometimes I feel like an Uber driver in Los Angeles. I’ve moved to a city where my skill is necessary and much valued, but comes with no job security. And definitely no tips. I’m a freelance Archive Producer, which involves footage [...]
The VFX industry, as I know it, is not a 9-5 existence, quite often we work late to meet deadlines, or to take calls from state side clients. Also, when on shoots, VFX related shots often get shunted to the end of [...]
I get home back to Edinburgh on Halloween. My children are out guising, and the house is empty and dark. I drag in my muddy welly boots and collapse. The doorbell rings and there are a group of children offering me [...]
I had my children in the 90s and I was working as a freelance film editor at the time. I found it very challenging to work the long hours required and care for small children. When they were very small it [...]