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#RaisingFilms has teamed up with King’s College London to conduct an impact and evaluation study of our work over the past eleven years. If you’ve engaged with Raising Films over the last decade, we’d love to hear from you! Survey closes 12th June 2026 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/kings/rais...
May 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Deadline today at 5pm! If you are a parent or carer in the UK screen industry who would like a week of time away please do apply. CV and a cover letter saying what you’d do with the week. #raisingfilms @raisingfilms.bsky.social
hopedickle.bsky.social Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social · Feb 16
Very happy to announce the @raisingfilms.bsky.social creative residency is back again this year! uk based writers, directors & producers with caring responsibilities who would benefit from a week with fellow residents in the Yorkshire Dales please apply. All info in the cards attached. #RaisingFilms
A white card with black text that reads: YOUR APPLICATION: Please send your bio/CV and; a 1 page cover letter outlining what you would do with the week. This opportunity is for parents and carers only - please state in your application what your caring responsibilities are. You will be sharing the cottage with 2 other people. You will have your own room. We regret we are unable to cover any expenses involved in attending. There are not desks in the bedrooms: workspace is shared space. The cottage is not wheelchair accessible. Send application to: info@raisingfilms.com Deadline: 5pm Friday 3rd March 2026 A white card with black text that reads: Creative Residency 2026 A week of focused work time in a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales, free of charge. 10-16 May 2026 3 places open to parent & carer writers, director and producers in the UK. Send application to: info@raisingfilms.com DEADLINE 5pm Friday 3rd March 2026
March 6, 2026 at 10:24 AM
hopedickle.bsky.social
Very happy to announce the @raisingfilms.bsky.social creative residency is back again this year! uk based writers, directors & producers with caring responsibilities who would benefit from a week with fellow residents in the Yorkshire Dales please apply. All info in the cards attached. #RaisingFilms
A white card with black text that reads: YOUR APPLICATION: Please send your bio/CV and; a 1 page cover letter outlining what you would do with the week. This opportunity is for parents and carers only - please state in your application what your caring responsibilities are. You will be sharing the cottage with 2 other people. You will have your own room. We regret we are unable to cover any expenses involved in attending. There are not desks in the bedrooms: workspace is shared space. The cottage is not wheelchair accessible. Send application to: info@raisingfilms.com Deadline: 5pm Friday 3rd March 2026 A white card with black text that reads: Creative Residency 2026 A week of focused work time in a cottage in the Yorkshire Dales, free of charge. 10-16 May 2026 3 places open to parent & carer writers, director and producers in the UK. Send application to: info@raisingfilms.com DEADLINE 5pm Friday 3rd March 2026
February 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
suchmayer.northsky.social
#RaisingFilms
“The year was 2005. Mira Nair had just acquired the rights to Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. Kal Penn, born Kalpen Suresh Modi, best known at the time for stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, was desperate to audition. He wanted to land the role of Gogol Ganguli, a character whose struggles mirrored his own, born to Indian immigrant parents, bilingual, and navigating identity in America. But it wasn't just the character he related to. Penn actively chased the project, even trying to acquire the rights to the novel before learning Mira Nair already had them. But it wasn't Hollywood agents or industry insiders who opened the door. It was Zohran Mamdani, a teen with a plan and a phone. “I started calling her office nonstop," Kal Penn once recalled. "Eventually Mira gave in, apparently because her son Zohran and his friend Sam were obsessed with Harold & Kumar," Penn later admitted in an interview.”
June 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM