Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/ 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 Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/ 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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]]> Creative Residency: March 2024 https://www.raisingfilms.com/applications-open-for-creative-residency-march-2024/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:35:39 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=33526 We are back with more residencies! If you are a UK-based writer, director or producer with caring responsibilities, and you’d like a week in a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales to get some focussed work done in March, we invite you to apply.  The application is simple – please send us your biography/CV and a [...]

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]]> Film Fatal Report on Caring Responsibilities in the Austrian Film Industry https://www.raisingfilms.com/film-fatal-report-on-caring-responsibilities-in-the-austrian-film-industry/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:14:35 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=32928 Congratulations to our friends Film Fatal in Austria, who have recently completed their first study on the compatibility of work and care responsibilities for film industry. Headline: it's fatal! Or as they say: "Filmmaking: be available, be flexible." We're honoured that Film Fatal will include a German translation of our job sharing resource on their new [...]

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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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]]> Creative Residency: March 2023 https://www.raisingfilms.com/creative-residency-march-2023/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:44:14 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=32852 We know how hard it is to find space in your busy lives to get a chunky piece of work done, so we're back with more residencies. If you're a UK-based writer, director or producer with caring responsibilities, and you'd like a week in a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales to get some work done [...]

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]]> RENT-A-BIFA!* (Because we’re broke) https://www.raisingfilms.com/rent-a-bifa-because-were-broke/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:07:46 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=30052 Need a gorgeous award to look glam in your next social media post? Or want something extra-special for your office to impress Zoom callers? Or something in your loo to motivate you to JUST KEEP GOING?! Raising Films are renting our beautiful BIFA Special Jury Award…  Because we’re broke. Our crowdfunding from 2018 saw [...]

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]]> Raising Films Awarded BIFA’s Special Jury Prize https://www.raisingfilms.com/raising-films-awarded-bifas-special-jury-prize/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 08:45:13 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=29497 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 Lowe, Emma Corrin and Bennet McGhee, the prize recognised us as a groundbreaking organisation [...]

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]]> How We Work Now – our report is live https://www.raisingfilms.com/how-we-work-now-our-report-is-live/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 10:57:45 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=29073 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 surveyed nearly 500 parents and carers working across the screen industries in the UK, [...]

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]]> How We Work Now – a survey into the impact of COVID-19 https://www.raisingfilms.com/how-we-work-now-a-survey-into-the-impact-of-covid-19/ Mon, 17 May 2021 14:29:18 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=27787 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 family members and/or friends, whether long-term or short-term to take some time to complete [...]

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]]> Choosing to make a feature film in lockdown with three kids https://www.raisingfilms.com/choosing-to-make-a-feature-film-in-lockdown/ Wed, 05 May 2021 16:38:01 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=26947 Laura Rees (who participated in Making It Possible 2020) on her decision to do a difficult, stressful and complicated thing at a difficult, stressful and complicated time AKA making a feature film during lockdown... In this piece Laura talks about the power of a community, the balance between parenting and retaining a professional sense [...]

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