Christine Langan talks challenges, highlights and diversity as film arm celebrates 25th anniversary.
BBC Films boss Christine Langan has said that the lack of diversity within the film industry is “increasingly on BBC Films’ agenda”.
Speaking to ScreenDaily on the day BBC Films celebrated its 25th anniversary and revealed its upcoming film slate, Langan said that diversity increasingly plays a role in the division’s commissioning strategy.
“I can ensure you we are very mindful of it [diversity] and increasingly it is on our agenda. We need to reflect modern Britain and I am engaged in that process,” said Langan.
“The film community needs to create opportunities to pull people through. Commissioning has taken account of it and will continue to do so.”
While the announced slate is short on producers, writers and directors from ethnic minority backgrounds, Langan commented: “This isn’t the whole slate. There are quite a lot of new commissions that speak to that...
BBC Films boss Christine Langan has said that the lack of diversity within the film industry is “increasingly on BBC Films’ agenda”.
Speaking to ScreenDaily on the day BBC Films celebrated its 25th anniversary and revealed its upcoming film slate, Langan said that diversity increasingly plays a role in the division’s commissioning strategy.
“I can ensure you we are very mindful of it [diversity] and increasingly it is on our agenda. We need to reflect modern Britain and I am engaged in that process,” said Langan.
“The film community needs to create opportunities to pull people through. Commissioning has taken account of it and will continue to do so.”
While the announced slate is short on producers, writers and directors from ethnic minority backgrounds, Langan commented: “This isn’t the whole slate. There are quite a lot of new commissions that speak to that...
- 3/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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