E.D.E.N. Digital, is our online filmmaking project for the LGBTQIA+ community, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. E.D.E.N. Digital launches on Tuesday 4th November 2025, 6-8pm on Zoom. This course is for members of the LGBTQIA+ community aged 18+. The theme is ‘Embracing DIY techniques and gaining the confidence to tell your story’. The aim of this course is to empower you with all […]
We are delighted to welcome Maddie Lock to the E.D.E.N. Film Productions team! Maddie will be working as a Facilitator for E.D.E.N. Digital, our online filmmaking project for the LGBTQIA+ community. Maddie is an award-winning queer, non-binary filmmaker, programmer and facilitator, born in Eastbourne, and based in Brighton. Inspired by seaside histories and minority groups […]
We are delighted to have received funding from the Postcode Neighbourhood Trust! Funds raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and awarded by Postcode Neighbourhood Trust will support our filmmaking projects with members of the LGBTQIA+ community and further our organisation’s sustainability.Thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
We are excited to announce that the E.D.E.N. Film Club will launch Thursday 5th June, 6-8pm! The E.D.E.N. Film Club is a space where we can learn, support and thrive together in community. It will be a space for all experiences and all LGBTQIA+ stories, where now more than ever, we need to keep sharing and […]
We are delighted to welcome Frit Tam to the E.D.E.N. Film Productions team! Frit will be working as a facilitator for the E.D.E.N. Film Club. Frit Tam is a British Chinese, transgender, award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, speaker, zine-maker, writer and futurist. He is also the co-director of Sheffield Adventure Film Festival and even more excitingly, […]
We are delighted to have been successful in our application to Our Communities Support as part of the Arnold Clark Community Fund. The funding will support our core costs. #ArnoldClarkCommunityFund
We’re sad to share that Diane will be leaving the Board of Directors.We want to say a massive thank you for all the support and work Diane has put into E.D.E.N. Film Productions since joining as a Director in 2019! She has always been supportive and enthusiastic for the work we do at E.D.E.N. and […]
Background E.D.E.N. Film Productions is an award-winning social enterprise, and an independent video production company based in Sheffield actively involved within the LGBTQ+ community, running free filmmaking workshops both online and in-person alongside running events and screenings. All our activities aim to further equality and tackle discrimination and inequality through the power of film as […]
Good news – we have secured new funding! E.D.E.N. are thrilled to announce that we have been successful in securing new funding for an exciting period of work, starting in 2025! We are incredibly grateful to have received funding from the National Lottery Community Fund for two years of work. This will also cover our […]
E.D.E.N. are thrilled to introduce our newest board member, Cyd Sturgess! A previous participant in numerous E.D.E.N. projects, including the inaugural Transforming Cinema film festival, Cyd has a fabulous academic background in queer studies and gender history and is focussed on transgender film festivals and their curation and delivery across Europe. Find out more from […]
In November 2024, our Chair Tom Reaney travelled to the beautiful city of Utrecht in the Netherlands to take part in a special event – On Connection: Queer Festival Curation, Practice and Experimentation – bringing together queer film festival organisers, researchers and audiences to explore what is involved in creating queer communities and space through […]
HAVE YOUR SAY!Would you like to see another E.D.E.N. Digital project? Would you like to be involved? What else do you want to see from us?Answer these questions (plus a few more) in our community survey, open now! https://shorturl.at/m6O8aWe can’t do what we do without you, so please let us know your thoughts! All feedback goes […]
We are E.D.E.N. Film Productions (edenfilm.co.uk), an award-winning social enterprise based in Sheffield, working with the LGBTQ+ community providing filmmaking workshops, producing short & feature films alongside hosting screening events. Since October 2023 we have been working with 10 members of the LGBTQ+ community, predominately from the trans community, on our Transforming Cinema Film Project. The […]
Introducing Transforming Cinema Film Project, an online filmmaking project for the LGBTQ+ community, specifically transgender, non-binary and genderqueer, genderfluid and gender non-conforming identities. The project is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. Ever dreamt of making your own short film? Want to produce a film on an important issue for the LGBTQ+ community? This […]
Do you love filmmaking? Do you enjoy working with LGBTQ+ communities? Do you have experience creating impactful film content? Check out this paid opportunity with E.D.E.N. Film Productions! Role: Filmmaking Facilitator Background: E.D.E.N. Film Productions is an award-winning social enterprise with a proud 10-year history of producing documentaries, short films and training videos. We […]
We want to hear from our LGBTQ+ communities! As organisers of Transforming Cinema in 2016 and 2018 – a film festival championing transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary and genderqueer voices – we’d love to get your views on this festival and our other activities. Through these festivals, we featured international films, expert speakers and engaging workshops […]
Help us shape our next project! We are looking for input from our LGBTQ+ communities in South Yorkshire – what are the issues you would like to explore through film? Your feedback will be essential for our plans to run our next project – a hybrid (online and in-person) filmmaking project Please complete our short […]
Could you spare a few moments to complete our short feedback survey? We’re looking to find out what members of our LGBTQ+ community would like from us here at E.D.E.N. Film Productions – your answers will help shape our future activities! We’re looking for the biggest range of views possible – maybe you’ve checked us […]
Did you know that you can play a vital part of E.D.E.N. Film Production’s future success?! We have a dedicated Localgiving fundraising page for E.D.E.N. Film Productions to allow supporters to donate to us in whichever way they feel, either by a one-off donation, a monthly donation or even fundraise for us! You can check […]
On Friday the 18th of February 2022, E.D.E.N. Film Productions will be showcasing the collection of films that were made as part of the LGBTQ+ filmmaking project. These films can be viewed on E.D.E.N.’s Vimeo channel via this link – www.vimeo.com/showcase/edendigital202122 – this link will be live from 10am on Friday the 18th of February. […]
