Raising Films ribbon awards Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/category/raising-films-ribbon-awards/ Supporting parents and carers in the UK screen sector Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:24:10 +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 Raising Films ribbon awards Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/category/raising-films-ribbon-awards/ 32 32 New festival awarded the Raising Films Ribbon https://www.raisingfilms.com/new-festival-awarded-the-raising-films-ribbon/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:23:52 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=27452 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 year. Lisa explains more about how the festival came to be, the ethos behind [...]

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]]> Bringing a young carer’s story to the screen https://www.raisingfilms.com/bringing-young-carers-story-to-the-screen/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:23:37 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=27355 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 share their experiences with a wider audience. The ambition with the film is to [...]

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]]> Supporting working parents and carers https://www.raisingfilms.com/supporting-working-parents-and-carers/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:39:05 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=27219 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). A not-for-profit social enterprise based in the North East, Digital Voice has delivered digital [...]

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]]> Mini Productions – making shorts and supporting parents https://www.raisingfilms.com/mini-productions-making-shorts-and-supporting-parents/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:34:30 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=26556 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 Films about the working practices herself and her business partner Sara Huxley, have put [...]

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]]> Casey Herbert on ribbon award production The Last Right https://www.raisingfilms.com/casey-herbert-ribbon-award-production-the-last-right/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:01:27 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=20627 One of our ribbon awards during the summer went to Casey Herbert a producer working on her second feature. Ahead of the release of THE LAST RIGHT we caught up with Casey to look back at how the production adapted to work with a significant change to her childcare responsibilities. THE LAST RIGHT went [...]

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]]> Caring for crew on a drama production https://www.raisingfilms.com/caring-for-crew-on-a-drama-production/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:03:12 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=20343 The latest Raising Films Ribbon goes to BBC Scotland drama production GUILT and specifically producer Jules Hussey (Brazen Productions). As an experience producer and line producer across projects like CATHERINE THE GREAT (Sky Atlantic) and CALL THE MIDWIFE (BBC), Jules brings to her work her own lived experience of her on-going support of an [...]

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]]> Keeping families in film – WonderWorks is here to help! https://www.raisingfilms.com/keeping-families-in-film-wonderworks-is-here-to-help/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:08:15 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=20056 Back in 2015 Mark Radcliffe came along to a Raising Films networking event. Also in 2015 the Raising Films founders met Charlotte Riley at an industry event. Both Mark and Charlotte talked about their ideas for an on-set childcare provision, so we played matchmaker and introduced them... Fast forward to 2019 and we are [...]

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]]> October ribbon update https://www.raisingfilms.com/october-ribbon-update/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:12:23 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=20368 We've had a flurry of applications from a range of brilliant organisations, productions and festivals over the past weeks. Full insights and stories to follow but in the meantime, put your hands together for: THE LAST WORD - family-friendly feature production, produced by Casey Herbert.TRIM EDITING - addressing the needs of their parent/carer workforce through flexible [...]

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]]> How to run the BIFAs https://www.raisingfilms.com/how-to-run-the-bifas-ribbon-awardee/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:09:43 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=19371 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. Peek behind the curtain (or, in our case, up on a balcony at the [...]

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]]> July’s Raising Films ribbon awards https://www.raisingfilms.com/ribbon-awards-july/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:00:56 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=19122 We are super thrilled to share news that we have awarded two Raising Films Ribbons over the past month... Our first ribbon goes to the British Independent Film Awards... The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) highlight and reward the best, most innovative and creative independent filmmaking and filmmakers in the UK. Behind the scenes [...]

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