TV and film have a long way to go. BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne, the mind behind Enola Holmes, This is England, and His Dark Materials was at the Edinburgh TV Festival delivering the annual James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture when he said, “Disability is the forgotten diversity, the one everyone leaves out of speeches.” Thorne went on to say in his address, “Gender, race, sexuality, all rightly get discussed at length. Disability gets relegated out. Producers have ignored disabled writers. Commissioners haven’t taken the opportunity to tell disabled stories. There are very few disabled people in front of the camera, and even fewer behind it.” He said, “TV has failed disabled people. Utterly and totally.” Thorne's message was clear, “because the TV world is stacked against the telling of disabled stories with disabled talent. And that has to change." Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 24 August, 2021