Our Work
Women continue to struggle for representation across the film industry globally. One social barrier particularly affects women, although it applies to everyone: Family vs. Film.
At Raising Films we believe conversations make change happen, and we want things to change. We are losing too much talent to the choice many filmmakers are forced to make, between being a parent and making films. We don’t believe this choice is necessary, but rather a product of social and economic conditions, and we want to start a conversation about how change can be made for filmmakers who want to have a family and continue their careers.
This is about development, sustainability and diversity. Raising Films aims to address one of the issues that prevents many female filmmakers from pursuing their careers, to enable filmmakers with families to keep working and feel supported during demanding times in their personal lives, and to challenge at a structural level the demands the film industry makes of all of us.
Raising Films aims to provide information, education and solutions and our work focuses on:
- Enabling financial assistance for child and elder care.
- Encouraging industry-wide adoption of flexible working and access to child and/or elder care.
- Formalising a way to combat discrimination.
- Normalising conversations around caring commitments with employers.
We put these ambitions into action by working with industry partners and the film and television community and lobby to to ensure these and other solutions are enacted.
ScreenSkills Making It Possible 2019 in association with Raising Films
Read this page in Welsh Mae’n bleser gan Raising Films gyhoeddi ein bod yn cynnal ein diwrnod poblogaidd o ddatblygu personol a gyrfa, Making it Possible, i bedwar grŵp yn ystod mis Hydref a [...]
How to run the BIFAs
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July’s Raising Films ribbon awards
We are super thrilled to share news that we have awarded two Raising Films ribbons over the past month... Our first ribbon goes to the British Independent Film Awards... The British Independent Film Awards [...]
Support and commitment from the industry in response to We Need To Talk About Caring report
On the back of our We Need To Talk About Caring report launch we called out for responses and commitments from the wider film and TV industries to acknowledge and support the needs of [...]
Launch of the Raising Films ribbon
On the same day as we published our We Need To Talk About Caring report we also unveiled the Raising Films ribbon. Launching the ribbon is a long-held ambition and it forms part of [...]
Publication of We Need To Talk About Caring report
Raising Films has published We Need to Talk About Caring the first investigation into carers working in the UK film and TV industries. The survey and subsequent report highlight the particular impact that caring [...]
Interventions
We Need To Talk About Caring
A survey into caring within the screen industries.
Raising Our Game
Implementing a framework of accountability for parents and carers.
Making It Possible
The first nationwide look into the impact of caring on career development across the industry.
Our MAKING IT POSSIBLE Research & Findings
Respondents were 78% female and 21% male, and the survey observed that women tended to carry more of the burden as carers.
79% of parents and carers told us that their caring labour had a negative impact on their work in the UK film and television industries.
63% of respondents work freelance or are self-employed, and financial uncertainty is a major concern.