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Aug 22, 2024 · Thinking back to 2020, in the aftermath of the UK film and TV industry’s pledges to increase racial equity, those commitments still struggled to make an impact on the number of Black and global majority talents being hired on or off screen.
Jul 21, 2021 · UCL is launching a major £1m research project into the links between racism, racial inequality, diversity and policy in the UK film industry, working closely with the British Film Institute (BFI), the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image.
Aug 20, 2020 · Racism in the film industry is alarming. It is ongoing. And it is not inevitable. People of colour make up three per cent of the UK film workforce, despite being 17 per cent of the UK ’s and 40 per cent of London’s population (where the majority of that workforce is based).
- Research Assistant
- Film Setting and Location
- Film Regionality
- Film Genres
- Production Budgets
- The Overall Landscape of Race/Ethnicity in the UK Film Sector
- The National Picture: Race/Ethnicity by Production Setting/Location
- Film Genre and Race and Ethnicity Representation
- Key Findings
- Setting, Location and Regionality
- Genre
- Summary
Dina Benderra, The London School of Economics and Political Science
In considering how film production locations and settings may impact the representation of race and ethnic difference, the dataset produced a breakdown of the overall proportion of Race/Ethnicity representation in Standard A and B for film productions in each UK region, a breakdown of Race/Ethnicity in Standard A and B for each film by regionality ...
In relation to the analysis of film settings and locations, the report also details the representation of Race/Ethnicity within film productions across six broader UK regions: North of England (North East, North West, Yorkshire) Midlands (East Midlands, West Midlands) and South of England (East of England, South East, South West) alongside Scotlan...
Film genres are a key but under-researched area in relation to racial diversity and this research question seeks to analyse trends and conventions in the representation of racial and ethnic difference within film production, and if the Diversity Standards have stimulated the selecting of Race/Ethnicity in film genres that have not traditionally rep...
Finally, the research explored the overall budget scale for each film production award vs the percentage of Race/ Ethnicity representation. Here, a dataset was created to capture to what degree have films within each budget category identified by the BFI referenced Race/Ethnicity in their productions. The research sought to understand if film budge...
This enquiry was addressed in two ways: (a) by looking at the proportion of film productions that referenced Race/Ethnicity in evidence for at least one criterion in Standard A and/or Standard B, and (b) by looking at the frequency with which Race/Ethnicity was cited in evidence for Standards A and/or Standard B out of all instances where URGs were...
Research was conducted to reveal how film productions adhering to the Diversity Standards represented Race/Ethnicity by non-London regions. This was approached in two ways. Firstly, the regional composition of film productions in the UK based on the nine production regions classified by the BFI, which are also informed by the Ofice of National Stat...
The analysis of the presence of Race/Ethnicity within film genres across Standard A and B was approached in two ways; firstly, a dataset was coded to reveal the number of films that met at least one criterion with reference to Race/Ethnicity, and secondly, the percentage of Race/Ethnicity citations within each film genre category in both Standard A...
The research data results suggests an improvement in some aspects of Race/Ethnicity representation across the film sector, with notably high references for this URG in Standard A and B criterion. However, the data analysis reveals that racial underrepresentation remains a structural condition within the film industry, and such results should be rea...
The disproportionately low number of film productions outside of London revealed in the data analysis means we cannot yet gain an afirmative understanding of how film locations, settings and regions impact the ability of films to satisfy the Diversity Standards in regard to Race/ Ethnicity. The data does suggest that films being made outside of Lon...
The primacy of Drama within the Diversity Standards, where this was the most common genre in terms of film production funding, provides a useful, if somewhat limited picture of how Race/Ethnicity intersects with genre. The low number of productions for other genres means that their citing of Race/Ethnicity as a URG should be considered in this cont...
This report acknowledges that the BFI Diversity Standards is an evolving concept and to this end, has performed as a crucial intervention in policy approaches to diversity in the film sector from 2016. The Diversity Standards represents the most ambitious and wide-ranging attempt to respond to the issues of diversity within the sector. However, thi...
Dec 3, 2020 · Despite Black and ethnic minorities making up 33%* of the UK population, they only make up 3-5% of the UK film workforce. The panel discussed and examined Black-led films that are produced and released theatrically in the UK and the barriers that prevent them from achieving box office success.
Oct 23, 2020 · In June 2020, an open letter was published calling on the UK's film and TV industry to "tackle structural and systemic racism" in broadcasting and film-making. Among the things the letter asked...
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Oct 15, 2020 · The UK TV and film industry has had a real problem with diversity but is that finally set to change? 'Working as a black female director in this industry has often felt like banging my head against a brick wall and a glass ceiling.'
