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Creative Access have released their 2024 edition of the Thrive Report. The Thrive report examines business sentiment around DE&I with employers and career sentiment amongst individuals from our community, the majority of which (70%) come from groups...

An upbeat and surprisingly sunny MIPCOM ended on a high note as we celebrated the nominees and winners of the 6th MIPCOM Cannes Diversify TV Awards.For the 2nd year running, the Awards ceremony took place, in the Grand Auditorium in the Palais des...

Netflix has unveiled a slate of new and returning African originals, including a range of scripted and unscripted series and feature films to launch on the platform in late 2022 and early 2023. Among the new scripted series titles is Ludik, the...

A new “Accessibility Scorecard” launched this summer will aim to help U.S. and international film festivals assess and improve their accessibility measures, Variety can reveal. Developed by filmmaker and former International Documentary Association...

Karen Toliver, the current VP of animated films at Netflix, has had a remarkable, distinguished career in the industry, working in various positions at Disney, Fox Animation and, most recently, at Sony Pictures Animation as exec VP of creative. She is...

A new report from Kids Industries on U.K. and U.S. parents’ views on diversity and inclusion in children’s media showed that there is a desire for more representation in kids’ content. According to the study, parents believe their children enjoy...

Soho Media Club is launching the Be You Festival on 14th July in Soho, London. TV and film industry trailblazers are set to take to the stage to lead honest discussions about inclusion, diversity, talent and mental health in film and TV and challenge...

Channel 4 in the UK has published new Commissioning Diversity Guidelines, committing to ensure at least 20% of its editorial decision-makers are from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Production companies must meet two different sets of on and...

Sky has launched its first documentary shorts fund, which will offer £500,000 ($625,000) to fund programming from underrepresented communities.The scheme, which is a partnership between Sky Documentaries and APX Content Ventures (part of French ad and...

After attending the Cannes Film Festival in 2019 as a freelance film critic, I was excited to go this time as a film critic and reporter for Deadline. I knew that access would be different with a powerful platform and that my workload would double in...

Shondaland and Netflix have teamed up to launch The Producers Inclusion Initiative and The Ladder. The schemes will work with historical underrepresented communities in order to expand the pipeline for behind-the-scenes talent. More information can be...

The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) runs nine open call grants programs. Grant guidelines and evaluation process are detailed ​here​

Black Britain Unspoken aims to discover new talent and identify stories about Black British lives. Media Trust and Warner Bros. Discovery will produce a small number of short-form documentaries (max. 5 mins) from the submissions received, to be aired...

Variety published an exclusive article detailing an exodus of women of colour from the BBC. The full article can be read here​

​The FOCUS Award is designed to foster, nurture and grow talent, as well as open doors. Returning for it’s second year, the FOCUS Award is calling for people to send in their short films for the chance to win invaluable mentoring sessions and to have...

Channel 4 in the UK and Motion Content Group have launched a multi-million pound fund to boost commissions from small and medium sized ethnically diverse-led production companies.The new and dedicated fund is designed to support ethnically diverse-led...

ITV in the UK has just launched a call out for up and coming Black filmmakers, offering them the opportunity to helm one of five new films that the network will commission for Black History Month 2022 as part of the new Fresh Cuts strand. Link to the...

​ITV has announced plans to reserve £80m of its content commissioning budget over the next three years to drive change towards racial equity and disability equity. Of this amount, at least £20m will be reserved for content made by Black, Asian and...

For the second year, the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (LHC) is offering 5 grants of up to £3,000 each to support short turnaround research by industry practitioners. The purpose of these research grants is to better inform policy and...

The Creative Diversity Network has released their fifth annual report analysing data gathered through the Diamond diversity monitoring system in the UK television sector.The long-term analysis reveals that “despite well-meaning initiatives across the...