Secure Storyteller Network
Secure Storyteller Network

Secure filmmaking across bordersPractical. Mindful. Lightweight.

Through training, tools and care-centred guidance, SSN helps storytellers plan careful ways of working with teams, contributors and communities.

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.

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Training

Build care into production from the beginning.

Workshops helping filmmakers assess digital, physical and ethical considerations before production.

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Project Support

See the workflow before problems grow.

Tailored review for a film or storytelling project that needs careful handling.

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Partnerships

Create thoughtful spaces for careful storytelling.

Care-centred storytelling programmes designed with festivals, organisations and communities.

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How 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.

A lightweight working rhythm
  1. Prepare
  2. Safeguard
  3. Care
  4. Adapt

Impact

Practical support, delivered in focused formats.

From 1-hour sessions to 4-day intensives.

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filmmakers trained

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workshops and training programmes delivered

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training hours

240 face-to-face hours and 20 virtual hours.

Testimonials

Participant reflections from SSN workshops.

Short reflections from people who have taken part in SSN training and workshop spaces.

“I’m grateful to have met the organisers at this moment. The programme gave me strength to continue creating and living.”

Kai, filmmaker 4-day workshop participant

“My fear became smaller.”

Anonymous, storyteller 3-day workshop participant

“Learning and exchanging ideas in a safe environment with a positive atmosphere.”

Mei, independent filmmaker, producer Full-day workshop participant

“Meeting people outside my own circle made me feel that I have professional backup now: reliable information, security knowledge and people I can trust.”

Daniel, visual storyteller 3-day workshop participant

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.

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Supporters and partners

Working with people who make careful storytelling possible.

Founding supporter Berlinale Talents
DBACE

Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Entrepreneurs

Mentoring partner Security Matters Asia Goldsmiths, University of London

Who we work with

SSN works with people and organisations across complex storytelling contexts.

Support can be shaped for creative teams, cultural spaces and networks working with contributors, communities and project material.

Storytellers and film teams Festivals and cultural organisations Funders and support networks

Work With Us

Bring SSN into a training, festival, organisation or programme.

Train with SSN, partner with SSN, or explore how secure storytelling support could sit within your work.

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