At Screen International and Broadcast’s Diversify conference today, Aaqil Ahmed, commissioning editor for religion at the BBC, has said the UK film and TV industries should be “ashamed” of the decline in Bame representation in the creative media industries.
Ahmed lamented the findings of a recent Creative Skillset report, which highlighted a significant decline in Bame (black, Asian and minority ethnic people) representation in the film and TV industries between 2009-12.
“We should be ashamed of those figures. But we don’t need figures to show us. We look around us and we can see it. It’s not just that the figures have gone down but it’s that you won’t get another Aaqil Ahmed - a working class, Pakistani boy from Manchester - coming through the ranks. Mono-cultural issues are getting worse. I feel ashamed, personally and as an industry we should be ashamed. I don’t think we care enough. This industry...
Ahmed lamented the findings of a recent Creative Skillset report, which highlighted a significant decline in Bame (black, Asian and minority ethnic people) representation in the film and TV industries between 2009-12.
“We should be ashamed of those figures. But we don’t need figures to show us. We look around us and we can see it. It’s not just that the figures have gone down but it’s that you won’t get another Aaqil Ahmed - a working class, Pakistani boy from Manchester - coming through the ranks. Mono-cultural issues are getting worse. I feel ashamed, personally and as an industry we should be ashamed. I don’t think we care enough. This industry...
- 11/13/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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