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European Industry at EFM Marks Progress, Setbacks in Push for Diversity and Inclusion: ‘This Is a Marathon, Not a Race’
The second annual Equity and Inclusion Pathways Seminar at the EFM renews the push to open more doors in the continent’s screen industries.
The fight for diversity and inclusion takes center stage at this year’s European Film Market, which will host a day-long event Feb. 20 as part of a concerted, pan-European effort to open more doors in the continent’s screen industries. “We’ve seen it in the U.S., in the big studios, in the tech sector, in corporate America, in the U.K.,” she says, “all of these EDI roles where the people left, and then suddenly that job or that department or that function was completely forgotten about.” Nevertheless, “people are more fired up than ever,” she says, pointing to how a public outcry pushed the Berlin Film Festival to reverse course on its decision to invite members of Germany’s far-right AfD party to the opening ceremony.
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