Top UK film and TV production school puts spotlight on students with disabilities

Hamish Thompson, disability advocate, and Jon Wardle, director, at the National Film and Television School. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

For a long time, physically disabled students who dreamed of studying at the UK’s most prestigious film and TV production school had nowhere to stay in the local area. And when they commuted, they would encounter hundreds of inaccessible areas on campus.

In an industry where just 12% of TV employees are disabled, compared with 18% in the labour market as a whole, something had to change.