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Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley join calls for UK creative industries anti-harassment body

Emerald Fennell, Cara Delevingne and Naomie Harris also among 25 signatories asking companies to fund the the Creative Industry Independent Standards Authority

They are among the signatories of an open letter calling on companies to commit to provide financial contributions to the Creative Industry Independent Standards Authority (CIISA), which is due to begin operations in 2025. In an interview with Variety in 2023, CIISA chief executive Jen Smith said that it would be a voluntary-funded standards authority to “investigate poor behaviour across the creative industries”, including film, TV, theatre and video games. She added: “It is very necessary to break the cycle of harmful behaviour that we know is such a significant problem across the creative industries … We’re a unique proposition and we address a void and a gap.” Smith said that CIISA would work with existing organisations, including trade unions and the police, to examine reports and hand over to the most appropriate places to achieve resolution.

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