This post first appeared on Ren’s Patreon page.

We’re delighted to announce that Kate Madison won the Artemisa Woman Creators Award at Bilbao Seriesland last night. Kate of course co-created Ren along with Christopher Dane, and she has directed six episodes to date as well as co-writing them all. In a festival with such a high standard of entries, we’re over the moon to be recognised with this award.

Bilbao Seriesland, formerly Bilbao Webfest, is a festival of digital content in northern Spain. Kate has been attending for the last few days with Oriana Charles (Ren), Helen Fullerton (Sol) and showrunner Yours Truly. (Just to be clear, we don’t use your money for this; we all pay our own way!) We’ve seen a wonderful range of series from hilarious comedies like House of Switzerland to moving dramas like Becoming Charlie, both of which justly won awards too.

In other news, there’s a chance coming up to see both seasons of Ren on the big screen. Screen St Ives, a community cinema group based in the Cambridgeshire town where much of the series is filmed, will screen the series on Thursday, 28th November at St Ives Corn Exchange. Tickets are £7, doors open at 6:30pm and the show begins at 7:30pm. It’s the first time we’ve shown Seasons One and Two together, so we’re excited that the audience will get the full binge-watch experience! Members of the cast and crew will be in attendance to introduce the series and answer questions.