STORYTELL-HER STUDIOS
An authored story development studio

Your story is not just a story.
It is the beginning of something lasting.

We help creators, founders and storytellers turn lived experience into meaningful, story-led work: films, books, courses, keynotes. Development that holds the teller as carefully as the tale.

Begin in The Lab Watch the film
RTS Award Winner Channel 4 · December 2025 Previewed at BAFTA 1M views in one week Seen by millions
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Press coverage of Saving Mum across BBC Radio London, ITV Meridian and national headlines

Saving Mum: Our Family Secret · Channel 4, December 2025

Proof, not promise

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, was seen by millions and won an RTS award. It is the proof of concept for everything the studio now offers.

“Audiences didn’t just consume the film. They felt seen by it.”

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Ways to work with the studio

Three doors. One standard.

For storytellers

The Lab

Creators, founders and women with lived experience. You have a story that matters. We help you find its shape, hold it safely, and build something lasting from it. Story development, not content strategy.

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For brands

The Studio

Commissioners, creative directors and brand teams. Documentary and branded content that is emotionally honest and culturally precise. Films that move people, not content that fills a brief.

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For organisations

The Workshop

Culture teams, creative departments and media organisations. Workshops, talks and screenings that build stronger storytelling cultures, with the rigour of documentary and the care of trauma-informed practice.

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Founder story

Why she built this.

“I spent almost two decades helping other people tell their stories. 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.”

Making Saving Mum taught Maleena what no broadcast credit could: telling your own story is not just a creative act. It is an act of identity. Of reclamation. Of becoming.

Meet Maleena
Maleena Pone, founder of StoryTell-Her Studios

Maleena Pone · executive producer, RTS award-winning director, certified life coach

In their words

Trusted by the people who make television.

“A distinctive voice in documentary — tender, raw, and unafraid in bringing vulnerable stories to screen.”
Rita Daniels
Rita Daniels
Commissioning Editor, Channel 4
“A brilliant production partner with a rare instinct for story and truth.”
Fatima Salaria
Fatima Salaria
EP Factual & Factual Drama, Dancing Ledge Productions
“I learned so much about myself & was finally able to finish my first film because of the support I received.”
Kidst Ayalew
Kidst Ayalew
Filmmaker & Content Creator, PinkNews
Start here

Your story has been waiting long enough.

Begin with a half-day Story Discovery Intensive, or start free with Before I Pressed Record and see what it actually took to make Saving Mum.

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The thinking behind the work

StoryTell-Her Time

Every Sunday, Maleena writes about authorship, identity, visibility, and what it really takes to tell a story that matters. Creativity · Healing · Visibility · Self-authorship.

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