Inclusive Screen

Beacon Films is keen to work with partners and allies to make the screen industry a more inclusive place for disabled and neurodivergent people

1. Inclusive Screen Training

Are you a screen production organisation, commissioner or funder?

Do you want to increase the number of talented disabled professionals in both on and off-screen roles, and at all levels of your productions?

Beacon Films provide training & consultancy for funders, commissioners, and production companies.

Our introductory interactive workshops are designed and led by disabled, autistic and neurodivergent filmmakers.

Options and Prices:

• 1 - Introduction - £300 (VAT n/a)

  45 minute 'quick fire' presentation introducing people to the considerations around making the screen workplace more inclusive for workers with disabilities.

• 2 - Essentials - £650 for 3hr course (VAT n/a)

  3hr interactive course that covers the essentials of how to make the your screen sector organisation more inclusive for staff, freelancers and actors with disabilities.

• 3- Discover - £1300 for 3 hour course and follow up Action Learning Set (VAT n/a)

As ‘Essentials’ but with a follow up Action Learning session (approximately 1 month after the training)...

We will also soon be publishing details of scheduled sessions that individuals can sign up to at a lower ‘per person’ rate.

Please contact us, if this is something that interests you.

Please note: whilst this training is designed with screen industry organisations and professionals in mind, it can easily be adapted for any creative industry or sector.

2. #WeShallNotBeRemoved Screen Industry Group

Several Beacon Films members and staff are members of the UK Disability Arts Alliance Screen Industry Group.

The group aims to increase the meaningful representation of disabled, autistic and neurodivergent people in the UK screen sectors.

You can find out more about WeShallNotBeRemoved / the UK Disability Arts Alliance here

You can contact the Screen Industry Group by emailing: screen@weshallnotberemoved.com

3. Links to Resources:-

Note: Beacon Films provides these links in good faith. We cannot vouch for any of the people, organisations or information you encounter and are not responsible for the content of external websites.

• Press Reset

  • The BFI’s campaign to increase the number of disabled people working in the UK’s screen industries

  • Their webpages contain links to resources, which include details of BSL interpreters, captioners and audio describers

• FWD DOC [Filmmakers With Disabilities]

  • General resources page

  • A Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film

  • Engagement Pack. This downloadable PDF contains resources aimed at filmmakers, commissioners, funders, buyers, decision-makers, business affairs and exhibitors, and includes templates for use across the industry.

• Access Riders / Access and Support Plans

  • Explanatory notes and example template for an Access and Support Plan

  • An example of a self-formatted Access Rider

• Advocacy

  • #WeShallNotBeRemoved: a grassroots campaign to help the arts sector become more inclusive in a post-covid world.

  • Disabled Artists Networking Community (DANC)

  • Equity Deaf and Disabled Members Committee

  • Act For Change

  • Creative Diversity Network (CDN)

• Inclusive talent agencies and networks, for actors, presenters and crew

  • TripleC Talent Finder

  • Deaf and Disabled People in Film & TV Facebook group // email

  • Andrew Roach Talent

  • Profile Performers

  • VisABLE People

  • Simon-Howe Talent Agency

  • Think Bigger

• Inclusive production companies that support filmmakers, crew members and exhibitors

  • Beacon Films

  • Carousel (and Oska Bright Film Festival)

  • Ability Academy (specialising in Avid training)

  • Scattered Pictures

  • Four Corners Film

  • 104 Films

  • DandI (part of Triforce Creative Network)

• Other areas of inclusion and intersectionality

  • We Are Parable

  • The British Blacklist

  • The New Black Film Collective

  • Birds Eye View

  • DandI (part of Triforce Creative Network)

• Easy Read Conversions

  • Easy Read Online (UK based)

  • Easy Read UK

  • Jade French

• Advice, Guidance and Learning (updated October 2021)

  • The Social Model of Disability explained (Shape Arts)

  • wave.webaim.org website accessibility check

  • Changing Places (searchable website that provides details of venues that have changing place facilities)

  • Disability Rights UK - Advice about ‘Permitted Work’ whilst on benefits

  • Turn2Us.org.uk - Advice about ‘Permitted Work’ whilst on benefits

  • Base advice about ‘Permitted Work’ whilst on benefits

  • Government advice on ‘Permitted Work’ whilst on benefits

  • Disability Rights UK - where you can go for independent advice regarding benefits

  • Note: local authorities have Welfare Advice Centres. Contact your local authority to find out more.

  • Personal Budgets: explainer from Disability Rights UK

  • Safeguarding advice (NCVO)

  • Bringing Change to the Board - a resource to support organisations to be more inclusive in their governance.

• Funding & Opportunities

  • Access to Work

  • ScreenSkills bursaries

  • BBC Extend

  • Channel 4 Production Training Scheme

  • Unlimited (funding for disabled artists)

  • Arts Jobs

  • Mandy.com

  • Shooting People

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