About Us

Transforming Film was set up in 2019 by trainer and activist Nim Ralph and cis producer Cat Marshall to provide training, guidance, and consultation for the screen industries around gender identity and supporting trans professionals.

Nim and Cat met on the feature film Everybody’s Talking About Jamie after Nim came onboard the production to advise on gender identity and created a toolkit covering; basic understanding of gender identity, understanding LGBTQ experience and practical ways to ensure trans and non-binary folk feel welcome, safe and supported. 

After Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Nim and Cat wanted to build on this work and Transforming Film was born. 

Nim’s experience as a trans person, and a trainer and educator, mean that they lead on the content, training and consultancy areas of work. Cat’s experience as a Producer and a cis person mean that she leads on the industry specific content and admin & logistics to get our work out into the world. These specific roles are intentional to distribute the labour between us and to recognise our different realities and relationships to the content of our work.

We want more trans people to be hired and recognised for their contributions in the industry and this is a guiding principle of our partnership. 

We, like many other trans led initiatives in the industry, struggle to generate any financial support for our work (despite a lot of interest in our work) and do this as a passion project while maintaining full time jobs elsewhere. 

You can read more about Nim, Cat and the Transforming Film team below.

Meet the Team

  • Nim Ralph (they/them)

    FOUNDER & TRAINER

    Nim helps groups to harness their understanding of social justice to create positive and empowering cultures that work in practice and last.

    Nim is a community organiser, and freelance trainer, facilitator and writer with 15 years work in a number of sectors delivering equity, inclusion and justice work.

    You can read more about Nim’s other work here: www.nimralph.com

  • Cat Marshall (she/her)

    FOUNDER & TRAINER

    Cat is a cis Yorkshire based producer working across scripted and documentary.

    She was Associate Producer on the feature adaptation of the hit musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) nominated for the Outstanding British Film BAFTA.

    Most recently she produced BIFA longlisted short Mars written by Chris Bush, from an original idea by multi-instrumentalist Yungblud.

    Previously Cat was with the award-winning Warp Films for nine years, working in production across their slate.

  • Noah Lei Underwood (they/them)

    ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

    Noah is an interdisciplinary storyteller and filmmaker. They recently won the BFI’s DIY Filmmaking Challenge with their short film, The Journey Home, which will be screened at the 2024 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival.