BFI will no longer finance films featuring villains with facial scars

The British Film Institute said it no longer intended to fund films featuring scars on villains' faces, hoping to combat the stigma associated with disfigurement. .

This is to support a campaign called #IamNotYourVillain, launched by the charity Changing Faces, which supports people with a visible difference in the face, hands or body.

"The film is a catalyst for change and that's why we are committed to not having negative representations through the scars or facial differences in the films we fund," said Ben Roberts, deputy chief executive of BFI.

"This campaign directly addresses the criteria of the BFI diversity standards, which require significant representations on the screen.

"We fully support the Changing Faces campaign #IAmNotYourVillain and invite the rest of the film industry to do the same."

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It will feature Vicky Knight, a burn survivor actress.

"The film industry has such power to influence the public with its portrayal of diversity, yet films too often use scars and look different, which is a shortcut to meanness," said the executive director. from Changing Faces, Becky Hewitt.

"It is particularly disturbing to see that children do not tend to make this association until they are exposed to films that influence their attitude to disfigurement in a deeply negative way."

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