Your story is not just a story.
It is the beginning of something lasting.
StoryTell-Her Studios helps creators, founders, experts and storytellers transform lived experience into meaningful, story-led IP through trauma-informed development, strategic storytelling, and emotionally intelligent production.
RTS Award Winner - Channel 4 - December 2025
The film that changed everything.
For years, Maleena Pone told other people's stories. Then she turned the camera on herself - making a deeply personal documentary about her mother, her identity, and what it means to be the one who holds the family together. Saving Mum previewed at BAFTA, aired on Channel 4 in December 2025, was seen by millions and won an RTS award. It also became the proof of concept for everything StoryTell-Her Studios now offers.
"Saving Mum wasn’t just a documentary. It became a catalyst. The social trailer amassed 1M views within its first week and opened a dialogue where there had previously been silence.
Audiences didn’t just consume the film. They felt seen by it."
Maleena Pone, Founder, StoryTell-Her Studios
Producer & Director, Saving Mum: Our family Secret (C4)
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Why she built this
"I turned the hardest chapter of my life into something that moved millions of people. Now I help other people do the same - whatever shape that takes."
I spent almost two decades helping other people tell their stories. I produced. I directed. I sat in edit suites and boardrooms and embedded into all kinds of communities, coaxing the truth out of other people's lives and I was good at it.
But something was missing. Somewhere along the way, I had stopped being a person with a story of my own and become the person who held space for everyone else's.
When I decided to turn the camera on myself — to make a documentary about my mother, our relationship, and everything we had never said out loud — I discovered something that changed how I understood this work entirely.
Telling your own story is not just a creative act. It is an act of identity.
Of reclamation. Of becoming.
Saving Mum aired on Channel 4 in December 2025. It won an RTS award. And it became the proof of concept for everything StoryTell-Her Studios now offers.
Because what I learned making that film, about emotional readiness, narrative architecture, and what it means to hold a story safely — is exactly what the people who come to me need.
Not just production. Not just coaching. But a guide who has done the hardest version of this work themselves.
That is what The Lab is built on. That is what every workshop, every film, every engagement carries inside it.
You deserve to tell your story. Let me help you become ready.
Learn more about Maleena’s story…
We are a creative studio run by an executive producer and certified life coach. Deep and meaningful is not a mood. It is a business model.
Most people either teach content creation, produce documentaries, or offer coaching. We sit in the space where all three meet and go further.
Ways to work with the studio.
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You have a story that matters. We help you find its shape, hold it safely, and build something lasting from it. This is story development — not content strategy.
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We make documentary and branded content that is emotionally honest and culturally precise. Films that move people — not just content that fills a brief.
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We help organisations build stronger storytelling cultures — developing the frameworks and editorial intelligence to champion underrepresented stories with integrity.
An authored story development studio.
We don’t just develop stories.
We help people become ready to tell them.
“A brilliant production partner with a rare instinct for story and truth.”
Fatima Salaria, EP Factual and Factual drama, Dancing Ledge Productions
“I have learned so much about myself & was finally able to finish my first film because of the support I received .”
Kidst Ayalew, Filmmaker & Content Creator, Pink News
“A distinctive voice in documentary - tender, raw, and unafraid in bringing vulnerable stories to screen.”
Rita Daniels, Commissioning Editor, Channel 4
The thinking behind the work.
Every week on StoryTell-Her Time, Maleena writes and speaks about authorship, identity, visibility, and what it really takes to tell a story that matters. Join thousands of creators, founders, and storytellers who are already there.
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