Testimonial: Early Day Films
Change comes from within. We set up Early Day Films to focus on the projects and talent we believe in. The purpose of having our own company was in part to develop how we wanted to work especially when we were [...]
Testimonial: Laura Giles
I'm not yet a full-time producer, just an aspiring one who has managed to shift her paid work to around the industry rather than outside it. I stupidly started my film-making and parenting journeys within a couple of years of each other [...]
Testimonial: Kerry Fox
I’ve just been doing my 2018 budget, something I haven’t properly done since 2010, and I’m comparing what everything cost me today to then – back then, childcare was £5, 000 for the year, and this year, hooray, I didn’t have [...]
Testimonial: Tina Gharavi, Bridge + Tunnel Productions
When I set up Bridge + Tunnel Productions in 1998 I wanted to ensure that while we expected a lot of our employees (filmmaking is challenging), we would also ensure that our staff received one of the best work situations possible. [...]
Testimonial: Farrah Drabu
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 [...]
In Conversation: Ivana and Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish filmmaker and painter currently living in London. His most recent feature film is Whisky Galore (2016), and his award-winning films include Hideous Kinky (1997), Regeneration (1996), and Small Faces (1995), which he wrote with and which was produced by his brother [...]
Testimonial: Jennifer Monks and Michelle Eastwood
It was a manic Monday in the To Know Him production office – 7 days from the start of principal photography. I was about to go out on a tech recce and I got the text! Michelle (my producing partner) had [...]
Sunshine Jackson on founding Amplify Pictures
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 [...]
Testimonial: Amy Neil
I'm on a hill not far from Glasgow filming the last day of Trust Me for BBC1, a drama about a nurse, a working mum, who boldly steals the identity of a doctor and starts practicing in A and E. It’s [...]
In Conversation: Hope Dickson Leach, Alice Lowe and Rachel Tunnard
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 [...]
Testimonial: Miranda Howard-Williams & Joel Green
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 [...]
In Conversation: Linda Ruth Williams and Mark Kermode
Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film in the English Department at Exeter University and the investigator on in a major new four-year research project on contemporary women filmmakers led by Dr. Shelley Cobb and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, [...]
Laura Scrivano on set with baby in tow
I am standing alone on a street in Paris. The pavement is steaming, sticky - finally burning off the soupy heat of the day. I don’t speak French. I haven’t eaten in eight hours and my boobs hurt because I haven’t [...]
Testimonial: MyAnna Buring
I always thought I’d be one of those women who work throughout their pregnancies. You know, the ones who work right up until their due date, the ones who you don’t even know are pregnant until they are 7-8 months in, [...]
Interview: Sophie Hyde
Sophie Hyde directed, produced and co-wrote eye innovative feature drama 52 TUESDAYS which won the directing award for world cinema at Sundance 2014 and the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale 2014. As a producer, her documentaries include SAM KLEMKE'S TIME MACHINE (Sundance 2015) SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! [...]
Crowdfunder: #RaisingRaisingFilms
We started with a crowdfunder in 2015 – and we've achieved so much in three years. We want to keep going and we need your help. We want to raise £14,000 of core funding so we can have a fairly-paid, flexible [...]
Interview: Gemma Whelan
Can you tell us about how it’s going working on Game of Thrones (no spoilers) and The End of the F***ing World? How are you making it work around and through your pregnancy? I have been very lucky with my timing [...]
Esther May Campbell: Radical Tending at Elm Tree Farm
Water Salad on Monday arrives this September: a book and exhibition of beautiful black and white photographs that tenderly picks their way through the special natures that exist at the magical Elm Tree Farm, a working farm comprised of animals, plants, volunteers, carers and [...]
Interview: Mattia Storni, Locarno Film Festival
You’re Head of Marketing for the Locarno Festival – which provides childcare for its guests and delegates! Can you tell us about how the Festival came about with that decision? The Locarno Festival has always tried to offer a 360-degree experience [...]
Interview: Catharine des Forges
Catharine Des Forges is the Director of the Independent Cinema Office. She has spent over 20 years working in the exhibition sector for a variety of organisations including the BFI and Arts Council England. She has worked as a freelance programmer and arts consultant and progammed [...]