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A panelled library hall set out with chairs and a flip chart for a development session.

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Programme · In partnership with Screen Sisters CIC

From a story to a screening.

A story that isn't being told, taken from an idea to a finished film and a screening.

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Who
Anyone with a story to tell. Women of faith and under-served communities first. No credits needed.
Where
3 Mills Studios, Pinewood Studios and online
Cost
Free. Support in kind, not a cash prize. Your idea stays yours.
When
First round to be announced. Register to be told first
Our unit at Pinewood Futures Festival 1:52Our film

Story first, then the unit

Learning provider: Futures in Film CIC. Partner: Screen Sisters CIC. Screen Sisters brings the community and the stories. We bring the unit, the kit, the training and post.

Come in with a subject, an outline or a script. Leave with it developed, costed, shot, cut and screened.

Nine stages

  1. A large group of community and faith representatives on stone steps.

    01

    Outreach: stories found with communities, not about them

  2. An audience listens to a talk in a panelled library hall.

    02

    Writers room: open and free, no samples needed

  3. A speaker presents in a panelled library hall with a screen and bookcases.

    03

    Development: a producer and a mentor attached

  4. People talk beside a lectern in a formal hall.

    04

    Pitch: a conversation, with written feedback for every project

  5. A training group gathers round a long table in a café as a scene is set up.

    05

    Commission: support in kind, not a cash prize. Terms in writing first

  6. Two women and a camera technician prepare a cinema camera together on a studio floor.

    06

    Pre-production: schedule, locations and consent, with prayer and food planned in

  7. Two women rig a cinema camera on a mount beside a car on a studio stage.

    07

    Production: a working unit, every department crewed. Shot on film or digital.

  8. A crew member watches a monitor during a classroom shoot.

    08

    Post: edit, sound and colour, booked before the shoot

  9. A speaker presents beside a screen in a library hall.

    09

    Screening: contributors see it first, every time

What you get

Notes
Written notes after every session
Development
A producer and a mentor, for the whole run
Pitch
Written feedback, selected or not

On the unit

With Screen Sisters

Two crew members build a cinema camera on a stand in a black-draped studio while a third watches.

Screen Sisters CIC brings women of faith into screen work across the UK. Its Lab pages have the detail: writers room sessions, pitch criteria and how to apply.

Two companies, two boards, two sets of accounts. How the partnership works · screensisters.org.uk

Where the Lab comes from

Silhouetted crew move a camera rig through green-lit haze on a stage.3 Mills × Screen SistersA production simulation, March 2026 A group of women gather around a cinema camera during a hands-on workshop.At PanavisionCamera department days Silhouetted figures sit in director's chairs in front of a curved LED wall showing a beach.Making your own filmFestivals, funding and shooting it properly

Learn from writers

Bring a story

Registered people hear the theme, the panel and the closing date first.

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