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Film: Ethnic Groups

Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN HL4039, tabled on 30 November 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to promote racial diversity in the film industry.

Answered on

10 December 2015

This Government is committed to promoting diversity in the film industry. We support the British Film Institute's (BFI) newly launched £1 million Diversity Fund, which works to provide professional development opportunities to people from underrepresented groups, as well as funding to organisations that are looking to support diversity projects. The BFI has also recently extended its Diversity Standards to cover all Film Fund Lottery schemes which support film development, production and distribution, and widen access to film in the UK.