More than 3,000 members of the U.K.’s film and TV industry have signed an open letter calling on gatekeepers to make a number of “strategic commitments” to reshape the landscape.Organizers of the letter — which comes just one week after the U.S.
Black Film Collective issued a similar open letter to Hollywood — include “The Boy with the Topknot” producer Nisha Parti, actor and writer Meera Syal, “Never Have I Ever” actor Indira Varma, playwright Tanka Gupta, actor-director Pooja Ghai and presenter Anita Rani.The group credits the U.S.
Black Film Collective’s initial “powerful and eloquent” open letter, sent last week and signed by hundreds of supporters.
“As the U.K.
TV and Film industry suffers from the same lack of diverse representation in front of and behind the camera, we, a group of women of color working in the industry, have revised it to address particular
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