12 Years A Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen has called out “blatant racism” in the UK’s film and TV industries.
Writing in an op-ed for newspaper The Observer, the Oscar winner said he was tired of listening to excuses and hoping for action. He stated that the UK is “far behind” the U.S. in representing black and ethnic minorities (Bame) in its screen sector workforce.
“Last year, I visited a TV-film set in London. It felt like I had walked out of one environment, the London I was surrounded by, into another, a place that was alien to me. I could not believe the whiteness of the set,” wrote McQueen. “I made three films in the States and it seems like nothing has really changed in the interim in Britain. The UK is so far behind in terms of representation, it’s shameful.”
Earlier this week, 700 Bame TV workers...
Writing in an op-ed for newspaper The Observer, the Oscar winner said he was tired of listening to excuses and hoping for action. He stated that the UK is “far behind” the U.S. in representing black and ethnic minorities (Bame) in its screen sector workforce.
“Last year, I visited a TV-film set in London. It felt like I had walked out of one environment, the London I was surrounded by, into another, a place that was alien to me. I could not believe the whiteness of the set,” wrote McQueen. “I made three films in the States and it seems like nothing has really changed in the interim in Britain. The UK is so far behind in terms of representation, it’s shameful.”
Earlier this week, 700 Bame TV workers...
- 6/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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