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Copy any of these as they stand. They are written to be accurate in print.

One sentence. Screen Sisters CIC is a women-led, faith-rooted community interest company based inside a working studio in East London, training women for technical and creative work in film and television.

One paragraph. Screen Sisters CIC (company number 16185639) is a women-led community interest company based at 3 Mills Studios in East London. It trains women — including women of faith, Jewish, Christian and Muslim, and those who share its values — to the standard high-end television and feature film work to, on days taught inside the industry's own buildings by people working in it now. Training is fully funded, a commitment filed with the company's constitution, and as a community interest company it carries an asset lock, so surplus cannot be extracted. It collaborates with Futures in Film CIC, a separate company.

Short description. Screen Sisters CIC: faith-literate screen training for women, inside a working studio in East London.

What it is, and what it is not

  • It is a community interest company, regulated by the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies, with an asset lock and public filings.
  • It is not a registered charity, a film school, a talent agency, a membership body, or a department of any other company.
  • Programmes are for women. The building is not. Screenings and community events are open to men, families and congregations.
  • Faith-rooted does not mean faith-restricted. Nobody is asked what she believes in order to take part, and no participant pays to train.
Three women stand together over a lens control handset on a camera trolley — one in a hijab with her hand on the wheel, two with uncovered hair watching what she is doing.

Names and spellings

Screen Sisters — two words, both capitalised, plural, no apostrophe. The legal name is Screen Sisters CIC. Not Screen Sister, not ScreenSisters. Directors: Rizwan Wadan and Nina Karwalska. The base is 3 Mills Studios, written with the numeral. Instagram and TikTok: @screensistersuk.

Photography, interviews and comment

  • Photography. Stills of training and studio days go to press on request, at print resolution with the credit line attached. Every frame is cleared individually: no face, name or voice is supplied without the written consent of the woman in it, which is why some of what we do has no picture at all.
  • Interviews. Email info@screensisters.org.uk with your outlet, subject and deadline, and flag the deadline in the subject line. Our one timing promise applies.
  • We will comment on faith-literate practice on a working set, routes into technical grades, what training inside a studio costs and requires, and why the crews filling East London's new stages are drawn from elsewhere.
  • We will not comment on an individual participant or her circumstances, another organisation's productions, contracts or staff, a live safeguarding matter, or anything under a non-disclosure agreement. We will not confirm that an organisation works with us before it has agreed in writing to be named.
Photograph · to come

A press-cleared portrait of both directors, and a wide of the room at 3 Mills with the studio beyond it.

Neither has been shot. A half-day at the base would cover both.