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 [...]
Ahead of the (online) release of their latest work - AYOUNI - filmmaker Yasmin Fedda reflects on being an independent filmmaker and parent and shares ideas for how things should (and can) change to support filmmakers as we all slowly [...]
Clare Shields is an independent producer and together with her husband Alex runs Sixty Clicks Productions. The saying ‘it takes a village’ applies so vividly here as Clare and Alex, embarking on their second short narrative film together, faced a [...]
For our latest community story Carla Buckingham asks, "Am I too old, too female or too ‘Mummy’ to make the cut in TV and film?" This is personal account of the journey Carla took towards her current status as a [...]
On set for WITH LOVE FROM CALAIS; Annemarie Lean-Vercoe on camera, Manjinder directing her daughter, Lyla. Director Manjinder Virk shares her experience of making her latest film, 23 DAYS, entirely in lockdown with her all-female team, how they collectively made [...]
Kim Albright took some time out (fuelled by caffiene and sugar) to write a piece for Raising Films about production and parenthood. Thanks Kim, over to you! One kid is asleep (I think, I hope!), the other at forest school [...]
Today (Friday 3 May 2019) is the release day of independent documentary IRENE'S GHOST, directed by Iain Cunningham. To celebrate and mark the release we spoke to Iain about his own experience of parenthood and how the production supported other [...]
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 grabbed some time with Emily Atef, director of 3 DAYS IN QUIBERON, to ask her about the process of making the film, her experience of working in TV and the ongoing challenges of balancing all the aspects of a [...]
Nearly 18 months ago, I took part in the first Making It Possible event put on by Raising Films and went for a wonderful day in Edinburgh. It was a day that gave me the courage and direction to return to [...]
Cape Town, December 2016 I have just completed my fourth week of prep for BBC commissioned, Peter Moffat scripted The Last Post. It is half six in the evening and as the incendiary South African sun subsides behind a mountain I [...]
I came to the UK in 2015 with a determination to do my masters in documentary directing at NFTS and pave my way into the British film industry. Easier said than done. I was 43, married and a parent to two [...]
Sure, on the face of it, it all sounds incredibly exciting and possibly even glamorous. Writer/producer/actress finally secures finance for feature film she has been trying to get off the ground for years and travels to New Zealand to make it. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]