maternity leave Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/tag/maternity-leave/ Supporting parents and carers in the UK screen sector Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:51:16 +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 maternity leave Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/tag/maternity-leave/ 32 32 Sade Banks on allowing space and time for self-care as a working mother https://www.raisingfilms.com/sade-banks-on-allowing-space-and-time-for-self-care-as-a-working-mother/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:19:47 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=22990 For our third provocation Sade Banks, founder and CEO of Sour Lemons (a charity that exists to disrupt decision making tables in the creative and cultural sectors), takes some time to talk about leaving secure full-time employment, setting up her charity, the arrival of her ‘second’ child and learning the importance of establishing and [...]

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]]> Testimonial: Emma Cummins https://www.raisingfilms.com/testimonial-emma-cummins/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:40:29 +0000 http://www.raising.leap.eco/?p=737 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 a day’s schedule as there is no requirement to pay VFX crew overtime, 60 [...]

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]]> Testimonial: Amelia Price https://www.raisingfilms.com/testimonial-amelia-price-2/ Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:00:13 +0000 http://www.raising.leap.eco/?p=617 My daughter was born four months ago, I've spent my maternity leave, as many people do, hanging out with other new mums in coffee shops and generally wondering where the time is going. I've got used to seeing other people's slight look of concern when they ask me when I'm going back to work, but [...]

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]]> Testimonial: Becca Ellson https://www.raisingfilms.com/testimonial-becca-ellson/ Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:00:57 +0000 http://www.raising.leap.eco/?p=385 Becca Ellson (seen here holding her baby sister) is an Independent Development Producer and Script Editor whose work includes BAFTA-nominated feature TAKING LIBERTIES, critically acclaimed experimental piano performance MOMENTS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS and 23 multi-award-winning short films for the BFI and BBC including Cannes Critic's Week Canal+ winner CROCODILE; BAFTA nominees TURNING, KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES', SEAVIEW and ORBIT EVER AFTER; [...]

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