filmmakers trained
Secure filmmaking across borders
SSN is a support network for cross-border filmmaking and storytelling, helping teams build safer practice, clearer decisions and care into production.
Practical. Mindful. Lightweight.
Why this matters
Stories travel further than the people who create them.
They cross borders, screens, festivals, collections and platforms. Along the way, they pass through many hands, systems and technologies.
Each movement can open new audiences. It also asks teams to think carefully about consent, context and how material travels.
What SSN does
Three ways to build careful storytelling practice.
SSN works with storytellers, projects and partners before pressure builds — including contributors and communities whose experiences are represented in the work.
Read the full approach →
01
Training
Build care into production from the beginning.Workshops that help teams build shared safety habits before work begins.
Read the approach 02Project Support
Pause, map and adjust a live workflow.Focused support for a project, team or moment that needs careful handling.
Read the approach 03Partnerships
Bring safer storytelling practice into a programme.Collaborations with festivals, organisations and funders that support teams, contributors and communities.
Read the approachHow we work
Security is not only technical.
We bring together digital and physical safety, ethics, consent, wellbeing and care, helping storytellers sustain both their work and themselves.
- Prepare
- Safeguard
- Care
- Adapt
Impact
Practical support, delivered in focused formats.
From 1-hour sessions to 4-day intensives.
workshops and training programmes delivered
training hours
198 face-to-face hours and 14 virtual hours.
Testimonials
Participant reflections from SSN workshops.
Short reflections from people who have taken part in SSN training and workshop spaces.
Who we are
Secure Storyteller Network supports storytellers working with care, consent and careful production methods.
Secure Storyteller Network works with a small group of trusted trainers and advisers across storytelling practice, legal awareness, digital safety, archiving, emerging technology and wellbeing.
Learn more about SSN →Who we work with
SSN works with people who make, hold and support stories.
Support can be shaped for creative teams, contributors, communities, cultural spaces, funders and support networks.
Not sure which route fits? Start with a simple conversation.
Say HelloSupporters and partners
Working with people who make careful storytelling possible.
