Story to Screen · Partners
Run jointly by Futures in Film CIC and Screen Sisters CIC.
Two organisations, two boards, two sets of accounts, one programme in development.
The partnership
Futures in Film × Screen Sisters. Pinewood Studios.
Who does what
The division of labour.
| Futures in Film CIC | Screen Sisters CIC | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Community interest company 14621615 | Community interest company 16185639, with its own board |
| What it brings to the Lab | Production simulation method, practitioners, equipment and the route from a script into a working unit | Women in screen: the network, the participants and the cultural safety work |
| Who it answers to | Its own board and the CIC Regulator | Its own board and the CIC Regulator |
| What it does not do | Speak for Screen Sisters, or bank Screen Sisters’ money | Speak for Futures in Film, or bank ours |
Where Lab work is run jointly, both are named. Otherwise only the one running it.
Two operators working the rig together outdoors
The naming rule
No organisation appears here without written permission for the exact words.
Written agreement to be named
An email or a signed line, on file
Required
Written agreement to the wording
The sentence that will appear, sent before publication
Required
A dated permission record
Every entry is dated and comes down if permission lapses
Required
Correct entity attribution
Where a relationship belongs to MR Helix Ltd or Pixeleyed Pictures Ltd, the page says so
Standing rule
The same applies to logos.
What partnering with the Lab is not
What it is not.
- Not a credit on the films.
- Not editorial influence. Nobody who funds the Lab gets a say in which stories it develops.
- Not a right to the material. Writers keep their rights.
- Not a logo swap.
Next
Bring something to the Lab.
Script-reading time, room hire, post facility hours, festival introductions, travel for writers. Tell us which of those you have.
