We will now be requiring all applicants to tell us about their connection to the story and to the specific communities of their projects. We are curious to learn about the type of collaboration that will happen between the creative team and the protagonist and are foregrounding questions around authorship and representation in our reviews.
Initiatives internationales
A Global Digital Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in the Film and TV Industry : 2020 has shown the world that the work isn’t done yet. The conference Carla 2020 has convened the international film ecosystem to paint a holistic and intersectional picture of structural inequalities, systemic oppression and constructive social change. During three days, we have met cultural disruptors, audiovisual creatives, global thought leaders and prolific researchers who unpacked power structures and converge visions for a diverse and sustainable future!
From talent and skills shortages, to the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and immersive technology, a lack of diversity in the workforce, the difficulties in bringing new products to market, and the coronavirus crisis, there has never been a more pressing need for support in the screen industries. SIGN will meet these challenges through a comprehensive, three-year programme of activity. Diversity and inclusion will be prioritised across all the work undertaken. Our team of experts will research the issues, and find innovative ways to combat them.
A consortium of working TV writers, comprised of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled, and Women writers, spanning lower-level writers to showrunners.
We support the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa. Through research, grant-making and advocacy we aim to build the field of narrative change-makers by supporting storytellers, investing in media platforms and driving disruption campaigns.
The Everyone Project is being used by the Australian film and television industry as a simple but comprehensive way of measuring and reporting on its diversity. This initiative is led by the Screen Diversity and Inclusion Network (SDIN) – a group of the major Australian broadcasters, screen funding agencies and trade organisations.
Survey and reporting tool to measure and benchmark diversity in the Australian film and television industry.
The colonial era never really ended – from the borders that restrict our movement to the languages we speak, the imperial conquests of bygone centuries are hard-coded into our lives. Here we encounter powerful films that provoke change to outdated power relations in our societies, culture and minds.
The Everyone Project is an easy-to-use web app that invites people to self-identify on a set of characteristics around the diversity of the talent and crews working in their current projects.
A network of broadcasters, screen funding agencies, business associations, guilds and industry-aligned education and training organisations who have committed to working together towards an inclusive and diverse screen industry.
Video activism can be a helpful tool in the frame of Native Americans’ struggles for self-making and sovereignty, reversing the trend established historically first by the European settlers, and then by the American ‘mainstream’ population, whose aim was to erase and assimilate Indigenous peoples. Indigenous media, such as Fourth Cinema or video productions broadcast on platforms like Youtube, are used as political tools by Native Americans. However, the essay also means to highlight the limits of such tools, whether the latter are theoretical, or practical.
“‘Black Panther’ is telling black stories from a black point-of-view in ways that have obviously captivated a wildly diverse audience, and it shows that diversity does sell, which is something we have been documenting for years,” Darnell Hunt, the dean of social science at UCLA and coauthor of the annual Diversity in Hollywood Report, told Moneyish. “This just shows that you can have a black director, you can have a black cast and crew, and do extremely well. And I would argue the same is true for other underrepresented groups as well.”