{"id":2094,"date":"2019-02-11T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:40:37","slug":"times-up-uk-celebrates-the-women-behind-the-films-nominated-at-the-2019-ee-british-academy-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedigitaldepot.co.uk\/ladburypr\/times-up-uk-celebrates-the-women-behind-the-films-nominated-at-the-2019-ee-british-academy-film-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME\u2019S UP UK celebrates the women behind the films nominated at the 2019 EE British Academy Film Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI want to give a joyful and grateful shout out for all the women nominated this year from me, Emma Thompson, on a set which boasts a female cameraperson, two camera assists, line producer and UPM, all being completely brilliant, more, give us more!\u201d Emma Thompson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last night at the 72nd EE British Academy Film Awards, TIME\u2019S UP UK celebrated the 200 plus women who were behind the nominated films – female talent both on and off screen, from set directors, script supervisors, and sound editors, to producers, leading actors, supporting actors, directors and more, of which 48 have been nominated for a BAFTA themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year ago, in response to the growing TIME\u2019S UP\nmovement in the US, a group of UK-based women from actors, producers, writers\nand others from the film, TV and theatre industries catalysed a sister\ninitiative, TIME\u2019S UP UK. The movement emphasised the need to highlight the\nconnections between the harassment revelations in Hollywood and the wider,\nsystematic nature of harassment and violence against women across all\nindustries, contexts, and countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME\u2019S UP UK launched the Justice and Equality Fund,\nmanaged by Rosa, and kick-started with a \u00a31million donation from Emma Watson,\nto challenge the sexual harassment, assault\nand discrimination that persists across all industries and sections of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funds poured into the crowd-funding site across the year. Gemma\nArterton, Keira Knightley, Tom Hiddleston, Gemma Chan, Sophie Okonedo, Emma\nThompson and scores of other actors followed suit, demonstrating their\nsolidarity with those less able to speak out against harassment, through\ndonations to the fund. They were joined by hundreds of other generous\nindividuals and Comic Relief. To date over 400 donors have contributed over\n\u00a32.7m to help bring an end to the culture of harassment, abuse and impunity by\nresourcing an expert network of advice, support and advocacy organisations and\nprojects. Among the 36 grants were funds for Northern Ireland\u2019s first rape\ncrisis service in over 12 years, for the Rape Crisis service in Shetland, for a\nzero-tolerance campaign on college campuses in Huddersfield and support to help\ndisabled women in Wales recognise harassment on public transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marai Larasi, Executive Director, Imkaan said, \u201cSexual harassment, and other forms of violence against women and girls, continues to affect millions of us each year. We need action at every level to create a safe, equal and just world. This is part of what Time\u2019s UP is about. When Emma (Watson) and I went to last year\u2019s Golden Globes, we made a promise to bring TIME\u2019S UP home to the UK. We committed to ensuring that TIME\u2019S UP UK would support, and be grounded in, the years of critical work already being done here. I am proud that TIME\u2019S UP UK holds this spirit of solidarity, and that donations to the Justice and Equality Fund are going to organisations<\/g> that are doing work to support survivors and to create change. At Imkaan we particularly welcome that grants have been made to specialist BME organisations<\/g>, which are often the most marginalised<\/g> in the women\u2019s sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, co-founder and executive director of\nUK Black Pride, said; \u201cAcross the world, women of colour continue to bear the\nbrunt of systemic inequalities, including harassment in the places we work. Too\noften we are left behind in local and global movements and so I\u2019m delighted to\ncontinue to support Time\u2019s Up, as it not only includes women of colour front\nand centre in the campaign, but also raises essential funds for our support,\nempowerment and healing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSexual harassment stems from an imbalance of power.\nIssues of workplace safety for women, and especially for women of colour, are\nbut a symptom of the power imbalance that plagues nearly every sector,\u201d says\nHeather Rabbatts, TIME\u2019S UP UK Chair. \u201cWe won\u2019t stop fighting until there is\ngender balance in leadership, until there is equal representation both on and\noff screen, and until all women have the opportunity to reach their full\npotential. That\u2019s why, at the beginning of our second year, we are taking up\nthe mantel from TIME\u2019S UP in the States and launching TIME\u2019S UPX2 here in the UK, to double the number of women in film both\non and off screen, and across other spaces where women are underrepresented.\nAnd we urge those in the industry to take on the #4PercentChallenge,<\/strong> committing to announce a\nproject with one female director in the next 18 months. TIME\u2019S UP UK is looking\nforward to continuing to work to push for these changes, which will ultimately\nlead to an increase in the nominations for these awards and indeed others across\nthe industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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