All Diversity articles
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NewsKirsten Dunst reflects on #MeToo: “We’ve put a lot of people away”
“People definitely can’t get away with what they used to,” said Dunst at Red Sea film festival.
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NewsBafta hits five-year membership diversity targets but gender falls short
For the 2025 survey, all members were required to resubmit their responses for the first time since the 2020-21 review.
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NewsQueen Latifah offers advice to Black British filmmakers: “Stand strong in your spot”
Latifah kicked off the starry Red Sea In Conversation series.
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NewsPercentage of features directed by women filmmakers dropped in France in 2024
The CNC is introducing a penalty for productions that do not have gender parity in key crew positions.
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NewsRamy Youssef, Mo Amer talk sensitivities around sex and religion as Arab creators
“Everyone sees the sensitivity they want,” says Youssef at a Doha Film Festival talk.
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NewsPrimetime, Picturehouse partner on agent programme for underrepresented filmmakers
EXCLUSIVE: Partnership will launch with an event at Picturehouse Central in January 2026.
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NewsDiversity data in UK film production to be collated for the first time
The Creative Diversity Network will create a reporting system with Bafta.
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News‘The Choral’ director Nicholas Hytner says there is a “limit” to what UK industry can do to support working-class talent
Additionally producer Kevin Loader advocated for cashflowing the IFTC and Ralph Fiennes discussed prep.
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NewsFemale film critics in the UK face 19% gender pay gap
Over half of respondents are earning under £25,000 a year from criticism.
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News“We are stirring it up for you,” says Julia Roberts of #MeToo themes in ’After The Hunt’
“We are challenging people to have conversations and be excited or infuriated by that,” said Roberts in Venice.
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FeaturesHow inclusive is the UK film and TV industry five years on from George Floyd’s murder?
Black creatives and executives in the UK film and TV sector are questioning the level of progress made.
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NewsSarajevo, Slano support five female filmmakers from Southeast Europe
Filmmakers include Ena Sendijarevic, Aida Begic.
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NewsChristophe Honoré to chair Queer Palm jury at Cannes
This award celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.
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NewsBFI, Warner Bros, Embankment execs join New Black Film Collective 2025 XPO line-up
The New Black Film Collective 2025 XPO takes place in London from March 24-28.
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NewsBFI Network, Bafta select six LGBTQIA+ filmmakers for 2025 mentoring programme
The programme is in partnership with BFI Flare Festival.
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NewsHanna Schygulla takes aim at nationalism, AfD: “It has always brought misery”
“We have the worst people in charge of the world,” says Schygulla.
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NewsFiona Lamptey, Eve Gabereau among speakers at Reclaim The Frame distribution event
They are joined by Mubi’s Cate Kane and BFI’s director of inclusion, Melanie Hoyes.
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NewsBafta Elevate 2025/26 cohort includes ‘Mr Gay Syria’, ‘Kanaval’ directors
The cohort comprises documentary and factual filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds.
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NewsNo progress being made in the number of female-made films released in the UK, says Reclaim The Frame
Only 12% of films were directed and written by women and those of a marginalised gender.
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NewsBFI Flare to open with ‘The Wedding Banquet’ starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone
The film is a comedy-drama about a deal between a gay man and his lesbian friend.