screenwriter Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/tag/screenwriter/ Supporting parents and carers in the UK screen sector Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:57:00 +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 screenwriter Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/tag/screenwriter/ 32 32 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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]]> Raising Films Writer Residencies Spring 2020 https://www.raisingfilms.com/raising-films-writer-residencies-spring-2020/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:45:17 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=21816 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS NOW 9am MONDAY 16 MARCH! Raising Films is seeking to support four writers (either individuals or pairs) by providing a free residency space for the week of Monday 20 to Friday 24 April 2020. We are aiming to help those who need some focused time away from their caring responsibilities [...]

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]]> Taking a story of dementia from page to screen https://www.raisingfilms.com/taking-a-story-of-dementia-from-page-to-screen/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:11:44 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=21483 Raising Films caught up with screenwriter Andrea Gibb on her latest work ELIZABETH IS MISSING. Andrea talked to us about transferring Emma Healey's novel of the same name to the screen and how her personal experience of caring was reflected in her approach. ELIZABETH IS MISSING stars Glenda Jackson as Maud, an elderly woman [...]

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]]> Our writers in residence – part three https://www.raisingfilms.com/our-writers-in-residence-part-three/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:40:07 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=18084 The third instalment from our writers in residence, who took the opportunity of a free week-long residency space for focused work. These residencies were made possible by the generosity of three members of our community with holiday cottages they donated for free. The residencies took place in Cumbria
 and Stroud, and in this final [...]

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]]> Our writers in residence – part two https://www.raisingfilms.com/our-writers-in-residence-part-two/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:30:46 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=18047 Here's the second in our mini-series from the writers who took part in our free week-long residencies. Our aim was to help writers who needed some focused time away from their caring responsibilities to advance or complete a writing project, or research / develop ideas for a specific industry opportunity. The residency spaces were [...]

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]]> Our writers in residence – part one https://www.raisingfilms.com/our-writers-in-residence-part-one/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:30:36 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17980 Back in January we announced our support for six writers through the provision of free week-long residency spaces, to be taken up in March. Our aim was to help writers who needed some focused time away from their caring responsibilities to advance or complete a writing project, or research / develop ideas for a [...]

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]]> Raising Films Writer Residencies: Spring 2019 https://www.raisingfilms.com/raising-films-writer-residencies-spring-2019/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:10:57 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17265 Raising Films is seeking to support six writers (either individuals or pairs) by providing a free residency space for the week of Monday 25 to Friday 29 March 2019. We are aiming to help those who need some focused time away from their caring responsibilities to advance or complete a writing project, or research [...]

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]]> Film and Television Charity Family Support Fund Awardee Emily Corcoran https://www.raisingfilms.com/ctbf-family-support-fund-awardee-emily-corcoran/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:00:16 +0000 http://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=10233 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. Regardless that she has an 8-month-old baby. I discovered at the end of three [...]

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]]> In Conversation: Hope Dickson Leach, Alice Lowe and Rachel Tunnard https://www.raisingfilms.com/conversation-hope-dickson-leach-alice-lowe-and-rachel-tunnard/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:18:27 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=9739 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 to] find them right now). Given it’s been over a year now since Alice [...]

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