Getting a place on Raising Films Creative Residency 2024 was a dream come true! I’d applied in previous years but was beyond excited to have been offered a slightly different residency this year to stay in producer Laura Giles Cornwall Air [...]
It was such a privilege to be selected for the Raising Film Creative Residency in March this year. Having the time away from all the distractions of home, the school pick up, the washing pile etc. really allowed me to absorb [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
With an established career in film and media, writer and producer Duncan Paveling started a family, discovered Raising Films and during the production of his debut feature MY FERAL HEART provided care for a member of his extended family. We're [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Joe is an award-winning Film/Television Director and Screenwriter who works in both narrative drama and documentary. A number of his past projects have been commissioned and/or broadcast by BBC, Northern Ireland Screen, TG4, The Irish Language Broadcast Fund, RTE and The [...]
Rosie is an Artist/Filmmaker who has screened her work at venues including the ICA, Tate Liverpool and Camden Arts Centre as well as the international festival circuit. Rosie is currently in development with her first feature film The Saviours funded by [...]
Anne-Marie O’Connor has written for the theatre, penned three novels and ghost written a number of best selling books but has since changed focus to TV. Writing on Waterloo Road before co-creating Sky 1’s Trollied. She is currently working on returning [...]
Photo by Eloise Ross Ming Ho is an experienced screenwriter, script editor, and active campaigner on dementia and carer issues. She began her career as Script Executive at independent Zenith Productions, working across a slate of British film and TV drama, [...]
The challenges of trying to combine motherhood with a creative career hit home for me a couple of years ago when my older daughter, then four, was doing a project in nursery about summer holidays. She informed me that all her [...]
Flexible working, job sharing, genuine diversity in gatekeeper roles as well as in front of and behind the camera, paying key creatives properly and respect for people as rounded human beings who can get the job done in their own way [...]
Shahrbanoo Sadat is a 20 year old Afghan woman, scriptwriter and director. She is based in Kabul. She studied documentary film-making at the “Atelier Varan Kabul” a French Workshop. Her first short fiction “Vice Versa One” was selected at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. [...]
Desperate Optimists are Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. Born in Dublin, Ireland, they studied theatre in the UK in the late 80s. From 1992 to 1999 they toured six internationally acclaimed devised theatre shows. Between 2000 and 2003 they directed a number of [...]
Tonight, PREVENGE receives its world premiere at Venice Critics' Week. Below, in our third instalment of The Prevenge diaries, Alice Lowe talks us through the edit process with a tiny baby on her lap. I find that with films, as with [...]