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ai123 posted...

The context is the British Film Institute standards.

The BFI is a charity, funded by government and the lottery. In order to receive certain film making grants from the BFI, you have to meet diversity standards in three out of five categories. Only one of which would result in a minority even appearing on screen.

So yeah, if you're making an indie British film, and looking for funding from this particular charity, you'll have fulfill some (not all) really basic diversity criteria.

That's what Mr Pearl Clutcher, with all of his characteristic honesty and integrity, has tried to spin as 'Movie, TV show and game producers get paid more if they add diversity than if they dont'.

They're always such lovely people, aren't they?

It's pretty typical. They make an absurd claim (that films without minorities systematically get paid less and can't win awards even after the last round of awards) then act like they've "proven" their point because they found one small charitable organization funding indie movies that is trying to encourage diversity. And they're not even trying that hard!