Northern Alliance - BFI

Of the filmmakers supported by respondents that provided diversity data over the
period reviewed:
Women directors increased as a proportion of all directors from 18% to
22%, women producers decreased from 37% to 31%, and women
writers rose from 22% to 24%;
Black and minority ethnic (BME) directors fell as a proportion of
directors from 12% to 10%, BME producers decreased from 9% to 2%,
and BME writers fell from 9% to 8%;Disabled directors increased as a
proportion of all directors from 1% to 6%, disabled producers rose
from 0% to 3%, and disabled writers increased from 2% to 7%,
probably due to the advent of The Magic Hour in the last year of
review.
Diversity career development
Those respondents that collected diversity data show a total of 362 women, BME
and disabled filmmakers were supported by strategic partners over the three
years reviewed. However, career tracking data that can be cross-referenced only
exists for 241 of the filmmakers, and of these:
29 women filmmakers and 14 BME filmmakers have made another short
film;
Five women filmmakers and three BME filmmakers have made a feature
film;
17 women filmmakers and five BME filmmakers have received feature
development funding;
24 women filmmakers and ten BME filmmakers have got an industry
related job;
23 women filmmakers and 21 BME filmmakers have received industry
recognition;
Eight women filmmakers and five BME filmmakers have received public
recognition
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