working away from home Archives - Raising Films

Supporting parent filmmakers with travel costs

Sally Hodgson — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:50:03 +0000

Here at Raising Films we’re finalising our approach to giving recognition to those people, productions, companies and organisations working in the spirit of what Raising Films stands for. We anticipate this recognition will take the form of a mark that can be included on websites, end credits, printed materials, pop-up banners, brochures, flyers… You [...]

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Testimonial: Kerry Fox

So Mayer — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:20:04 +0000

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 that line in the budget, because I have a 17 year old. In one [...]

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Testimonial: Miranda Howard-Williams & Joel Green

Admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:47:18 +0000

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 working as a team to make juggling our jobs and being new parents work. [...]

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Laura Scrivano on set with baby in tow

So Mayer — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 09:10:37 +0000

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 had time to pump yet. It’s one in the morning, I’m not wearing any [...]

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Testimonial: MyAnna Buring

So Mayer — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:06:24 +0000

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, who do it because they can and want to, and because, as the saying [...]

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Interview: Mattia Storni, Locarno Film Festival

So Mayer — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:39:13 +0000

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 to its visitors. We know how difficult it is to combine family and work [...]

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Katherine Beacon on getting back into work

So Mayer — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:28:51 +0000

In the garden centre last weekend I asked the man in wellies and a tabard if he could point me in the direction of a fast growing, evergreen, tall, narrow tree that possibly flowered too and wasn't too expensive. He sighed, "The Holy Grail then?" Well, yes actually. That's what I want. And maybe it [...]

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How the True/False Festival Added Childcare to their Lineup

So Mayer — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:30:43 +0000

Paul Sturtz is Co-Conspirator (with David Wilson) of True/False, an "transformative, rambunctious, ecstatic" film festival and community in Columbia, Missouri. The festival is committed to nonfiction filmmaking and to environmental and social justice. In 2017, True/False partnered with Kickstarter to support childcare provision at the festival, and help create career sustainability for documentary-makers – this is how they are #RaisingFilms. [...]

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Annemarie Jacir on Baby Troubles at Cannes

Admin — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:00:09 +0000

Annemarie had two films premiere as official selections of the Cannes Film Festival. One in Venice and most recently Berlinale where W hen I Saw You won Best Asian Film. Founder of Philistine Films, she’s made over sixteen films and collaborates regularly with fellow filmmakers. She teaches screenwriting and works as a freelance editor and [...]

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Hope Dickson Leach and Alice Lowe Do Festivals

So Mayer — Mon, 29 May 2017 13:07:52 +0000

Hope Dickson Leach: ALICE. Alice Lowe: Yes Hope. HDL: We met in person for the first time in Toronto. You’d just come from Venice and for me it was my world premiere. I had left my children at home and you had your baby with you. This being the first feature I had made, I [...]

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