Rise, the advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, has announced the winners for this year’s Rise Awards. Rise received over 400 nominations from across the globe, with attendees from Australia, United States, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands at the ceremony. Winners were celebrated by a talented group … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, is to announce the winners for this year’s Rise Awards. Rise received 424 nominations from across the globe, with attendees from Australia, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, France, Norway and Spain, at the ceremony. Winners in fourteen categories were celebrated at … Read more
Agents for change Although there is still some way to go to create a truly inclusive industry, there are many associations, initiatives and schemes making strides towards a more diverse filmmaking community. In part one of this special feature, we highlight some of the changemakers helping build a better, more supportive, and more representative creative … Read more
Louis Garrel’s The Innocent has taken a lead in the nominations for the 48th César Awards, which were announced on Wednesday ahead of the ceremony at Olympia concert hall in Paris on February 24. The comedy-drama (which debuted in Cannes) was nominated in 11 categories followed by Dominik Moll’s detective drama The Night Of The 12th with … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, is proud to announce the winners for the 2022 Rise Awards, which were presented tonight, in partnership with BT Sport and Timeline TV. More than 250 guests attended the sold-out event to celebrate the achievements of this year’s winners and nominees. The … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, has announced the recipient of the 2022 Woman of the Year award. Daniella Weigner, co-founder and Managing Director of Cinegy GmbH, will receive her award during the Rise Awards 2022 ceremony, which will be held on Wednesday the 30th of November at BT Sport Studios, Stratford, London. The ceremony, held in … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast technology sector, has revealed the shortlist for this year’s Rise Awards. This year the awards will have three new categories; Ally, to be rewarded to a male who has significantly helped the gender diversity cause; Project Management or Delivery and Business Operations. With just over 250 nominations and … Read more
Rise, the advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, has announced the launch of its Rise Up Academy Summer School, the industry’s first free-to-attend event welcoming young students to learn about the technology behind getting great content onto our TVs, tablets or phones, as well as highlighting the possible career opportunities across … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast media technology sector, has announced that entries are open for its annual Rise Awards with the introduction of two new categories, Ally of the Year that honours men who have been supportive of striving to achieve gender diversity, and Business Operations of the Year, celebrating … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, has announced the pairing up of mentees and mentors for its fifth annual mentoring scheme in the UK, its third in Singapore, its second in North America and the introduction of its first mentoring schemes in North and Central Europe and … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology announces its newly appointed Head of Americas and Head of Sponsorship for the North American chapter, which was formed in 2020. Rise welcomes Hilary Roschke as chair of board and Jill Porubovic as head of sponsorship and former co-chairs Serena Harris and … Read more
Visual Data Media Services was honoured for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in professional career development, taking home the “Company Award for Investment in Women” at the 2021 Rise Awards. Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, announced the winners on November 18 at its annual awards ceremony … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, has announced the winners for the 2021 Rise Awards. The awards ceremony, held on Thursday 18 November in London as part of the DPP Tech Leaders’ Briefing, was attended by over 200 in-person guests bringing the industry together for a great evening … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the media technology sector, announced two recipients of the Woman of the Year award for this year’s Rise Awards, taking place next week. Inga Ruehl of Sky Sports and Borika Vucinic of Bell Media will receive their awards, sponsored by Zixi, during the ceremony, which will … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast media technology sector, has revealed the shortlist for this year’s Rise Awards. The judges saw an outstanding selection of global nominations from women in a variety of roles across the industry in several categories including: Business, Marketer/PR, Product Innovation, Production Support Engineer, R&D Engineer, … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast media technology sector, and ScreenSkills has announced the pairing up of mentees and mentors for the ScreenSkills Rise Mentoring Programme. This new ScreenSkills Rise Mentoring Programme, funded by ScreenSkills as part of the BFI Future Film Skills programme using funds from the National Lottery, supports Rises’ 2021/22 expansion of its mentoring schemes within the broadcast media technology … Read more
More than 250 people from groups currently under-represented in the screen industries and working in areas of skills shortage are to be supported with mentoring thanks to £130,375 of funding from ScreenSkills. Ten partnerships with other screen-related bodies will provide the mentoring opportunities as part of the ScreenSkills Mentoring Programme which is supported by the … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast media technology sector, has announced the launch of its second UK mentoring programme in 2021, the ScreenSkills Rise Mentoring Programme for women working across the sector, after securing funding from ScreenSkills. This programme, supported by ScreenSkills as part of the BFI Future Film Skills programme using … Read more
Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for women in the broadcast media technology sector, has announced that entries are open for its annual Rise Awards with the introduction of three new categories, Company Award for Investment in Women, Influencer Award and Student Award. Submissions and nominations are encouraged from across the global broadcast media technology audience to … Read more
Rise, the membership group for gender diversity within the broadcast technology media sector, has announced the pairing up of mentees and mentors for its fourth annual mentoring scheme in the UK, its second in APAC, and its first mentoring scheme in North America. The 2021 programme sees a variety of experienced broadcast technology media sector industry leaders, at a diversity of levels of … Read more