The Film and TV Charity

The Film and TV Charity launched services in 2020 to support workers who have experienced or witnessed bullying. Working with specialists from the mental health services and the film sector to create specific support. All services are free and anonymous.

• Spot helps you to register experience and organise your thoughts. It belongs only to the person who created the record and is 100% anonymous
• Bulling Pathway Advisors are fully dedicated to providing specialist guidance, and helping to take the next step that is right for you
• Anti-Bullying Directory holds a wealth of industry resources and helpful organisations

Find more on their site here

Respectful Workplaces in the Arts

Respectful Workplaces in the Arts is a national Canadian campaign to build a sector-wide culture of fairness, dignity and respect. They have some great online resources together to shape safe and healthy work environments, free from all forms of harassment.

• Training and other resources on harassment 
• YouTube videos and talks on creating respectful workplaces

Online Abuse

• A Toolkit for the Cultural Sector has been put together by The Space, a pragmatic guide shaped by conversations with a steering committee of artists and arts sector professionals. Read it here
• How to Create a Safe Space on Social Media is a great article by Everyday Feminism on how we can make social media inclusive of a wide range of needs. Read it here
• An example of a good safe space policy can be found on Cinema For All’s website here

This toolkit by Sadia Pineda Hameed is, foremostly, a practical guide for improving the experiences of POC (people of colour) audiences, staff and filmmakers – and other intersections including gender, sexuality, disability, income and class.

Whilst the harm and discrimination POC face in the arts both as workers and audiences is firmly rooted within institutional and systemic injustice, preventing immediate harm is the key priority – and that begins with immediate, though not as radical, reform.

This goes beyond representation, and towards creating a space built for all people rather than for primarily white audiences. Whether your cinema is in a rural part of the UK, or in a densely populated city, ethnically diverse audiences are there and it is your cinema’s role to serve them.

Read here

Learn more by watching the essential conversation below from This Way Up 2020, about the practicalities of systemic change. Sadia Pineda Hameed (she/her) discusses the consultation and development period during the writing of her work, Dismantling Structural Inequalities in Your Cinema, Sadia will address how ‘guides, toolkits and consultations’ must be treated as forms of accountability, as opposed to band-aids!

CCA Glasgow’s Alex Misick speaks about their approaches to partnering with ethnically diverse organisations, and how they are working towards a culture shift. This session is chaired by Tara Brown (they/she), Co-Director of Wotever DIY Film Festival, Fringe! Queer film & arts festival programmer and most recently Film Programmer for Bernie Grant Art Centre.