The British film and television school that trained celebrated filmmakers and creatives including Aardman’s Nick Park, writer and director Lynne Ramsay and cinematographer Roger Deakins has greatly outperformed the wider British arts industry when it comes to diversity, its new graduate impact report has found.
Access to the arts for those from lower-income and/or ethnically diverse backgrounds has been a hot-button subject in recent years, with concern over the narrowing of pathways to creative success in Britain, and its resulting effect on culture at large.