Faisal A. Qureshi
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An unspoken truth about POC writers is that they're often told by dev folks to: "Write what you know."
It really means: "Write something that confirms my perception of your community."
So, not write what you know but cater to the friendly liberal gatekeeper's prejudice.
When a yt BBC drama producer told me and my co writer (also Black) that our Black characters weren’t authentically Black enough and she knew this because she lived in Brixton…
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@juliamacfarlane
It's like the restaurant shot in GOODFELLAS but in reverse as a major player realises how minor they've become.
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@jonronson
I read that column and it bought to mind Kurt Vonnegut's moral for Mother Night. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
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@Miss_Toppin
@ahkelusdaris
@artbyfiyory
Agree with this. Submit a GDPR Subject Access Request with the train operator and the station to get CCTV of the incident. This is free but should be done ASAP as they only keep the recordings for 30 days.
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A common complaint I heard about
@bfi
@bfinetwork
submission process concerned pre-approvals. The story would usually involve a filmmaker being contacted by a talent exec and told they had been approved for funding but they needed to submit an application for it to go through.
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All I can say is that ethnic minority filmmakers appear to be asked more invasive questions about their personal lives and whether that person is deserving of patronage through a white gaze. Those who've been in the room will know what I'm talking about.
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@JolyonMaugham
There was a period where the BBC was pushing all freelance crew to go IR35. I would regularly hear concerns from members in
@bectu
meetings about it.
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People's Front of Judea versus Popular Front of Judea at London's protest.
Wow. A huge argument has broken out between two men, one who is claiming that White Lives Matter, the other claiming that All Lives Matter.
“You’re a fucking racist,” shouts the All Lives Matter man.
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@FrankCaithness
@liamyoung
@golwgymor
You're right that you can ask for police body cam footage via a Subject Access Request but this is via GDPR, not FOI legislation.
Police tend to keep any body cam footage for 30 days so speed is essential.
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@aifendragon
@OfficiallyAlly
Because author validation could mean a larger research grant?
There are some parts of cultural academia (film studies, literature, etc) which are indistinguishable from 9/11 truthers when it comes to weird interpretations but the former get rewarded for it.
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One thing I must point out is that in all my conversations with the BFI, I passed on accounts from other filmmakers who had also been impacted by their staff behaviour. One specific account, which I can't talk about publicly, angered me and made me realize this was a bigger issue
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The
@BFI
know this is an issue. That marginalized filmmakers are the ones who suffer. They know that creatives from ethnic minorities and precarious backgrounds are the ones impacted. So why continue to do this? Because they don't want to create filmmakers but gatekeepers.
UK needs more producers. Finding a producer for the BFI fund is like trying to find Escobar.
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@thesecondshelf
I doubt he's a ex-Royal Marine or a Private Military Contractor (the proper term for a mercenary). One thing I've noticed with ex-military types is their habit of using the correct terminology.
File this under person who has watched THE WILD GEESE a few too many times.
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Been hearing that certain
@bfinetwork
talent execs have been meetings with select ethnic minority talent and asking they publicly defend the organization against their own admission of systemic racism with promises of future "favours."
My DM's are open.
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@AniqahC
@lottelydia
@HorzaEdeo
Yup. My experience too. Remember how Muslim Labour members opposing the Iraq invasion were supporting "Islamofascism".
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Couple of lessons to be learned from the last few days:
- Never underestimate the social pressure victims of racist behaviour are put under to forgive those that wronged them or even apologize for being hurt by them.
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A rarely heard truth when it comes to the discourse of having more racially diverse gatekeepers in the media sector. Those that exist are often reinforcing the status quo whilst benefiting from superficial corporate attempts to address racial inequality.
Elite Black women have benefited from people projecting radicality on them, and now the same people are upset that these BW aren't doing shit. Why would they do anything? All it took was them breathing, and it was decided they were doing shit they weren't doing.
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What do you know, I'm a winner.
Congratulations to the winners of the Fall 2023 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab!
View the list and the loglines:
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@ObserverUK
And the Guardian wonders why so many ethnic minority subscribers have given up on the paper.
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Since then, when I see the biographies of creatives, I think "Who are you really writing for? Who is your audience? Is this really you?"
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@nadinebh_
Years ago, Katherine wrote an article in the Times about her experience teaching at a inner city school. In the comments, her former students didn't hide their feelings of betrayal and hurt at how she described them.
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Mock M. Night Shyamalan all you want, but if that guy tried to make anything in the UK, he'd be told to write a nice story about forced marriages with a slice of honor killings and leave stuff like THE SIXTH SENSE to the white kids.
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Well, well...
"...the BFI are the major players... though, the organisation had felt a little fusty and short of ideas, relying on a certain chumocracy and cronyism which led to a lot of the same producers and directors being funded over and over again"
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“There is only so many times organisations can say they have learned from their mistakes, usually by inflicting trauma on ethnic minorities. That it took five years to get this far only for them to go ‘trust us again’ is not a reasonable reassurance.
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Those of you who have been following my dispute with
@BFI
@BFINETWORK
will be aware of their truth twizzling. Recently,
@dcms
sent me their internal correspondence with
@bfi
concerning my complaint. One hopes things improve under
@lisanandy
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THREAD: HOW'D DID THEY LOSE THAT MUCH MONEY? A HISTORICAL STORY OF HOW PUBLIC FILM FUNDING WENT WALKABOUT.
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Sad to learn about the passing of George Alagiah. I met him after he agreed to support
@bectu
@BlackBECTU
Move On News event, despite his illness. Found him to be an all round decent guy. Condolences to his friends and family for their loss.
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British Film Institute CEO Ben Roberts has apologized after an independent investigation concluded that the movie body “badly” mishandled a racial discrimination complaint.
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Here's my answer. They're not. Writers are often pressured to work and develop work for free by producers and companies with the promise of paid development as a carrot.
Simple question - can anyone explain to me why writers are paid fairly for their work during development and indie producers aren’t? We all know there is no back end on these films and producers aren’t making profit, so why and how is this continually justified?
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Hey Folks. Remember the time when British Asian filmmakers were being pushed by development execs to add some Bollywood style numbers to their serious projects? Still amazing* those execs kept their jobs whilst the filmmakers still ended up shafted.
*Not really.
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@thebookseller
@PenguinRHUK
What a bizarre piece. One suspects that if such diversity monitoring was only done with the aim of rectifying gender imbalance, Shriver wouldn't be complaining with such fury.
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I was at Burnage the day Ahmed was murdered. None of us forgot it. We had a few students in my class who didn't disguise their white supremacist leanings even after his death.
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I was on a British TV diversity scheme – and saw why they don't change anything
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Remembering the time I was approached about writing a broadcast TV drama about ISIS. They wanted to meet, claimed to have lots of Home Office research so I naturally asked if it was sourced from RICU and was amusingly ghosted.
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The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally overhauled its complaints procedure, as an independent report published this week into the handling of allegations of racial discrimination made by filmmaker Faisal A Qureshi found the process had been “badly handled”.
BFI overhauls complaints procedure as report finds it “badly handled” allegation of racial discrimination
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Something I worked on.
"Colin Firth is a father desperately seeking justice in the first trailer for “Lockerbie: A Search for Truth,” an upcoming limited series about the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that killed 259 passengers and crew members."
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When I was subject to racially discriminatory behaviour on a
@ukfilmcouncil
produced short film and
@VisionandMedia
told me even though I was in the right, they rewarded those responsible with even more commissions whilst I was put on a public funding blacklist.
What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
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Was asked for advice about UK film education and had to repeat my big one, be careful of any establishment that expects or demands students crowdfund their coursework or graduation project.
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BAME creatives rail against industry insincerity and hypocrisy
@bectu
@BlackBECTU
@philippachilds
@marcusryder
@OrsonNava
@NokMedia
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@Miss_Toppin
@ahkelusdaris
@artbyfiyory
@flybe
@AirFranceUK
What I learned from this is if there's any public encounter you're not happy about, you can legally demand a copy of CCTV in a station or bar or even Police bodycam and it doesn't cost anything. What is essential is the speed of the request so vital evidence won't be lost.
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UK Film schools and media courses: Don't demand students crowdfund their graduation films. Chat all you want about social mobility but the fact is middle class students will have more financially secure social networks to obtain funding than those juggling 2-3 jobs to survive.
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Missed this article which touches on my situation with the BFI...
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This weekend, the film that got me interested in how movies are made came out. It's hated but I love it. All hail David Lynch's DUNE.
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As the man said earlier, when we find workarounds, the institutions find new ways to block career paths open to others. The rules keep changing and yet the same people keep benefiting.
If the
@BFI
want to prove us wrong, then allow an independent investigation.
This uk Producer talk is one of the reasons I’m weary of
@bfi
‘new’ strategy. Their systemic racism forced many Filmmakers of color to become (very good) Hyphenates. The fact their funds insist on separate producers shows they still deny the industry their biases created 🤷🏽♂️
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Important points made here on the toothless diversity initiatives that
@BFI
and
@BAFTA
have been promoting to the American film industry as a solution rather then another case of diversity washing.
The bigger problem with the Richard Dreyfus story: It perpetuates the lie that the Oscar & Bafta diversity rules increase/force the employment of people of colour in films. THIS IS NOT TRUE.
Films can be eligible for Oscar/Bafta nomination without employing a single black person.
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- Be aware of those who use your personal trauma to push their own agendas. It will never benefit you.
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Those following my tussle with
@BFI
@bfinetwork
will know that they had declined to respond to an order from the
@ICOnews
on releasing more of my personal data as part of a SAR. Today I learned the BFI are fighting to conceal information relating to myself and my character
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A memorable final night for the filmmakers who won this year's pitching competition
@InThePalaceISFF
. From an Iranian cyberpunk thriller, a Bulgarian Xmas black comedy, a car jacking thriller and a British look at cruising, I'll be looking forward to seeing them all on screen.
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Very saddened to learn about the loss of Simon Albury. He was a big supporter of
@BlackBECTU
's work including demanding greater transparency from Project Diamond and holding broadcasters to account. He was an ally against racism within our sector and will be greatly missed.
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One of the things I discovered during my
@BFI
complaint was that
@FilmHubNorth
had allowed writer/directors to apply as producers too. How do I know this? I was tipped off and got the documents to confirm it.
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Brutal.
"In the case of Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure... becomes a cautionary tale for black people who think they can one-of-the-good-ones themselves out of white supremacy."
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Did you know that whenever POC broach the issue of racism in the creative sector, the response is to always change the conversation about class? Did you know that those mean to represent the creative working class tend to always be white? Strange coincidence that.
Did you know only 8% of TV and Film in the UK is by people from working class backgrounds? Important discussion about how to broaden representation in the Creative Industries with
@Vicky_McClure
(Line of Duty, This is England, Trigger Point)
#LabourConferece24
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When Jonas Salk created the polio vaccine, he refused to patent it as combatting a virus that had taken millions of children's lives was far more important then money.
I recently discovered
@bfi
have anti-racism training material but won't release it cause of IP.
I'm team Salk.
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Hmmm. Interesting collection of followers I've recently picked up.
My DM's are currently open.
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Growing up, I heard stories of my parent's family being forced to do this during partition. I cannot imagine what families are having to go through now to ensure their children survive.
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Post an image of yourself as the leader of an underground organization without downloading any new pics.
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Someone WhatsApp me of an example of classism so here's one...
When POC applicants would go to see their public film body, they'd be told that lovely lottery money was intended for working class stories and given their interest in film, they were already bourgeois.
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I wrote a piece about DUNE where I interviewed Freddie Francis, Ron Miller and Raffaella De Laurentiis and the chances of David Lynch re-cutting the film.
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@LouiseRawAuthor
What exemption did they cite? This one appears worth taking up all the way to a tribunal.
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@marcusryder
A few years ago I was at a BBC comedy conference at Media City. The panel was asked by the chair who had BS'd to get a job. All of the panel, who included channel controllers and CE's, told stories of how they got away with it. The audience lapped it up. I was fuming.
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But three years later, we’ve seen senior BFI officers ignoring those same marginalised voices, blocking them on social media and painting themselves as victims behind closed doors, cursing the people whose concerns they claim to publicly champion.
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Here's my two pence worth:
1. Remove film funding from the BFI and give it to a newly created transparent body that doesn't commission their mates.
2. That the government create an independent commission specifically looking at the impact of racism within the film/TV industry.
I feel like there needs to be an URGENT British Film Summit where filmmakers can get together and try to figure out how to save our dying independent film industry. We have the talent in front and behind the camera. We just lack opportunities/funding.
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But I also knew that an institution that didn’t welcome me and others also meant that I had nothing to lose by voicing their concerns.
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My own blacklisting from public funding came after having stood up to the
@ukfc
and
@visionandmedia
. The filmmakers I had listened to feared they would suffer the same consequence. I knew there was sound basis for them to be scared.
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Congratulations to
@BritBlacklist
for this. During the 2020's BLM protests, I would get calls, most of whom I suspected to be grifters, trying to exploit genuine anger by offering simple fixes for cash or ego boosting. Sadly British Blacklist fell victim to one such person.
Hey
@kirkkorner
&
@EveningStandard
Really hope the same energy you had writing this hyperbolic and unnecessarily sensational story about our founder Akua Gyamfi ... you'll match writing about her being found NOT GUILTY today!
That'll be online AND the evening print version
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My Dad, Dr Azam Qureshi passed away in last night. Growing up he saw first hand the British exploitation of India and after WW2 witnessed the sectarian violence unleashed during partition which led to surviving family members fleeing to Pakistan (1/3).
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Hey
@BFI
@bfinetwork
. You once again deliberately ignored
@ICOnews
deadline of 2nd Sept 2024 to surrender additional documentation that you hid from my SAR. The most damning were the claims you made to
@dcms
which I got elsewhere.
Are you going to fulfil this or not?
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This is well overdue and what should be happening now. Not more training courses but accountability and justice.
From recent convos with film makers & Producers of colour the overwhelming consensus is trust in
@bfi
can only be restored with new inclusive leadership + full independent investigation of past practices. The idea they can simply overhaul & police themselves is now impossible.
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@Glenn__Kenny
1) John Cusack connecting with the baby whilst "Under Pressure" plays in GROSSE POINT BLANK.
2) Gyorgy Ligeti playing in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
3. Tom & Jerry competing with one another in CAT CONCERTO.
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That
@bfi
say the only acceptable solution is to focus to the future and ignore any potential mismanagement of public funding in the past is unacceptable. Everyone is supposed to be treated equally but it appears that behind closed doors
@bfinetwork
policy is:
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From telling them their applications were not welcome of if they got through by pushing them to tell stories that would meet approval from a white gaze.
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Who do I need to talk to revoke Trevor Phillips status in talking for every Black person in the UK? Was there a vote that I didn't hear about? Will there be a referendum?
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A few months ago, I posted about how
@BFI
funding awards information suddenly vanished from their website. You can see the thread below.
Regular readers of this twitter account will be aware of my sniping at the
@BFI
@bfinetwork
and other related accounts for their lack of transparency, accountability and general not taking documented evidenced complaints concerning racism seriously.
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