The panel will offer guidance on BFI Audience Fund applications.
A group of experts will now oversee all applications to the BFI Audience Fund to ensure it supports “authentic portrayals of disability and visible difference” through a new Disability and Visible Difference Representation Panel.
Any film seeking distribution support through the fund that has aspects of disability in the narrative, where a non-disabled actor portrays a disabled character, or where visible difference is used as a shorthand for negative representation, will be subject to review by the panel.
The model may be rolled out further to encompass all BFI funds.
A group of experts will now oversee all applications to the BFI Audience Fund to ensure it supports “authentic portrayals of disability and visible difference” through a new Disability and Visible Difference Representation Panel.
Any film seeking distribution support through the fund that has aspects of disability in the narrative, where a non-disabled actor portrays a disabled character, or where visible difference is used as a shorthand for negative representation, will be subject to review by the panel.
The model may be rolled out further to encompass all BFI funds.
- 12/2/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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