In 2015 Cinema For All started our Reaching Communities project and began collaborating with disadvantaged and marginalised communities all over the UK to provided them with all the training, support and assistance they needed to establish their own community cinemas and film screenings.
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report finds.
Today Directors UK releases its new report looking at the under-representation and under-employment of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) directors: UK Television: Adjusting the Colour Balance. Our report reveals the shocking statistic that only 1.5% of UK television is made by a BAME director.
Writers’ Guild says number of women in film and TV has ‘flatlined’ and urges commissioners to ‘let women tell stories’.
How many people in the UK are gay, lesbian or bisexual? The Office for National Statistics reckons it’s 1.5% while the Kinsey report says it’s 10%. Who’s right?
An app that creates an audio description soundtrack for films is helping blind people ‘see’ at the cinema – but not enough is being done to implement the technology.
Career progression and the keys to sustained employment for individuals from under-represented groups.
Update on Digital Arts for Older People report. Shows progress and lots of case studies included.
Outline of digital projects (both where digital is arts medium or tool for project)… discusses some of the blockers for experience and the cultural presuppositions that older people cannot work with digital. Useful info on dementia specific projects and activities. Good for mindset sourcing.
In this day and age all cinemas should be accessible for disabled people, right? Emma Purcell investigates to find out about people’s experiences of accessibility and customer service at cinemas, as well as what regulations are, or should be, in place to improve equality for disabled people at UK cinemas.
