CMF Blog
January 28, 2019
James Hill is the Co-Founder and Director of Fudge Animation, which was a new start-up in 2014. Here, he explains how support for the Children’s Media Foundation has helped Fudge Animation grow the company and develop their portfolio. Fudge is a boutique, full-service animation studio and a producer of animated Children’s content. Our latest property, a […]
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January 24, 2019
By Martin Franks, Children’s Media Producer and Director, Adastra Creative. There have been high-octane discussions about children and media since the advent of the printing press. Mass literacy, the cinema and then the TV all contributed to the debate (and what about the fuss over comics?). And now we are looking at the advent of personal screen […]
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Research
January 24, 2019
By Professor Sonia Livingstone, OBE, Department of Media and Communications, LSE New research has shown that length of screen time for children is not as harmful as first thought Oft-repeated advice to parents to limit their children’s screen time changed in recent weeks: “We’ve got the screen time debate all wrong. Let’s fix it.” (Wired, […]
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December 21, 2018
Children’s Screen Content in an Era of forced Migration – Creating Arab-European Dialogue. Jeanette Steemers, Professor of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College, London and CMF Board Member has been co-directing a research project into how growing numbers of displaced children create a need for content reflecting their issues. Children from Arab countries constitute a growing media audience in […]
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December 21, 2018
A Review of a new book by Lewis Rudd, Controller of Children’s TV for Central Television in the UK from 1981-1994. By Anna Home OBE, Chair, Children’s Media Foundation Board This is a series of short reminiscent essays about a long career in ITV spent mainly in Children’s Television. Over the years Lewis worked across the spectrum […]
Industry
December 21, 2018
By Anna Home OBE Chair, Children’s Media Foundation Board Monica Sims who died recently, aged 93, played an important part in the history of Children’s TV in the UK. Having been Editor of Woman’s Hour in Radio she moved to BBC Television Centre in 1967 to run the newly reinstated Children’s Department. For some years there […]
Industry
December 21, 2018
By Olivia Dickinson Children’s Media Professional and CMF Executive Group Member The Let Toys Be Toys campaign has been going for 6 years – it started on a thread on Mumsnet in late 2012 in the run up to Christmas shopping – and in that first year had huge success with shops taking down […]
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December 20, 2018
HOPE WORKS Alison Stewart, Children’s Media Consultant, Co-Founder Hope Works and CMF Supporter. IT ALL STARTED AT CMC The Hope Works project launched globally this November. A set of short films with additional learning resources aimed at children between the ages of 4 and 12 and their families, designed to promote the values of […]
Industry
November 23, 2018
A Bargain Stocking Filler for all Ages The new Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Set contains nine films ranging in date from 1956 to 1984 plus some animal acting highlights, and some documentary material on the history of the Foundation. The CFF was a not for profit company founded in 1950 by J Arthur Rank, supported by […]
Industry
November 22, 2018
CMF Director Greg Childs sent this presentation to the Screen Producers of Australia 20th November Screen Forever Conference. It outlines the key UK policy initiatives in the kids’ media sector. You can watch the entire presentation here: Our perspective at the Children’s Media Foundation is audience advocacy. But in pursuing that we believe in, and campaign […]
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