21st Century Storytelling
Heroine Media is a community interest company bringing overlooked stories, new music and heritage to life through festivals, live performance and film.
Live music. Festivals and talent programmes that give grassroots artists paid stages and new audiences.Heritage stories. Female-led and overlooked histories, developed for live and screen audiences.Skills and access. Mentoring, work experience and creative opportunities for emerging talent.
About
Heroine Media CIC creates live and screen experiences that put grassroots artists, overlooked histories and local communities centre stage.We run festivals that pay emerging musicians and bring free live music to their communities. We develop female-led heritage stories through audio, short-form film and live performance. And we open doors for new talent through mentoring, filming and work experience.Everything we earn goes back into that work.
Our brands
Each one its own world, created or co-created by Heroine Media.Haley's, July 2027
COMING SOON!HistoriCut
COMING SOON IN 2027! Overlooked historical stories, brought to life across audio, film and live events.History Mixtape
COMING SOON IN 2027! The live history show that sings! Blending music and storytelling, led by Lynsey Shaw, The Singing Historian.Ēowan
COMING SOON IN 2027! Uncover. Remember. Return. History, folklore and the old ways, in the places where they happened.
Heroine City
Celebrating women in history in all their efforts, errors, and eras. Our podcast, hosted by Lynsey Shaw, invites historians to restore women to the historical record and spotlight underrepresented stories. 37 episodes and counting. Listen now
Unlocked
Heritage Filming Alliance's BRAND NEW heritage video-podcast co-hosted by Lynsey Shaw and Christina Pascoe. COMING SOON!
Countryside Crossroads
Our home mini music festival. A free afternoon of songs and stories in Quorn, the Leicestershire village where Heroine Media began, supporting local Midland talent and new music. With Quorn Parish Council's help, it has grown from an afternoon on Stafford Orchard into a full house, rain or shine.
Team
Lynsey Shaw
Founding Co-Director
and Executive Producer
Lynsey is a singer-songwriter, creative producer and heritage storyteller with over 30 years in entertainment. She found UK chart success with Girls@Play, worked in Los Angeles as a performer, songwriter and TV and film producer, and produced hundreds of zeitgeist-fuelled live music events through Impossible Things Entertainment. She fronts chart-topping 90s dance act Urban Cookie Collective and is a practice-based PhD researcher in history and cultural memory at King's College London.
Christina Pascoe
Co-Director
Christina is Filming and Hires Lead at English Heritage and Founding Director of Heritage Filming Alliance, a pioneering heritage community focused on fine-tuning the sector's production offering and connecting film and media productions with historic places. She co-produces and hosts HFA's Unlocked podcast with Lynsey.
Rachael Halaburda
Executive Producer
Rachael is an award-winning filmmaker working across documentary, journalism and music video. A first-class Broadcast Journalism graduate of Nottingham Trent University and former senior reporter and producer at Notts TV, she founded Jamshot Studios and has made work with Sony, EMI, Universal, RCA, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. She directed Not Like The Rest, starring Bella Ramsey.
Mariana Ortiz
Creative Producer
Mariana is a creative lead with almost a decade of experience across film and cultural programming in the UK and Mexico. She is Creative Design and Cultural Project Manager at the Embassy of Mexico in the United Kingdom, co-producing Mexico-UK exhibitions and cultural showcases.
Get in touch
We are committed to safeguarding everyone who takes part in our work, and to making our projects open and welcoming to people of every background and ability. Our safeguarding and equality policies are available on request.For partnerships, programming or press, send us a message below.
Heroine Media CIC is a community interest company limited by guarantee. Registered in England and Wales, company number 12799495. Registered office: 2 Hall Leys, Quorn, Leics. LE12 8HF.© 2026 Heroine Media CIC