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TV Talent Honoured

The Cultural Diversity Network (CDN) held its inaugural awards ceremony celebrating diversity in the TV industry.

The Awards were set up to celebrate and promote excellence in diverse creative output in the TV sector. The ceremony took place at Channel 4 last November
and were hosted by Alan Carr, with Gok Wan and The Wire’s Idris Elba among those
presenting awards.

And the Winners were:
1. Excellence in creative output – diverse content
Heavy Load BBC Storyville (Met Film Ltd, HI8US)

2. Excellence in creative output – making diversity more mainstream
Find Me A Family Channel 4 (Betty)

3. Excellence in off-screen recruitment
OLGA TV

4. Outstanding contribution to promoting diversity
Tessa Ross, Head of Film & Drama, Channel 4

5. Special Recognition Award – The fifth award is a special category recognising those unsung heroes who work
tirelessly behind the scenes to promote diversity.
Bob Clarke, Founder, MAMA Youth Projec.

The Cultural Diversity Network

The CDN was set up in 2000 to bring together broadcasters and other key stakeholders to address some of the key issues of diversity in the media.

Channel 4 is the current chairing organisation of the CDN and the aims of the network are… “to provide a platform for collective action on the key issues of diversity in the media. It enables member organisations to communicate with one another and challenge each other to do better, to be more imaginative and to ensure the needs of our multicultural audiences are met.”“To modernise the portrayal of ethnic minorities in mainstream programming, so that racial diversity on-screen and behind the screen reflects today’s multicultural Britain.”

Cultural Diversity Network North (CDN) The Cultural Diversity Network North (CDN North) was founded in 2004 to help the media industry in the North support its distinctive diversity needs. Its primary focus is to increase ethnic diversity within the media in the North.
www.culturaldiversitynetwork.co.uk