Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Filmmaker Mark Forbes explores the persistent class barriers within the UK film industry, revealing the struggles, resil | dG1fMWhldXVwY1hjeGs

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00:00Hi, my name is Mark and I'm a filmmaker. This is a documentary about class which continues

00:14to plague the film industry. If you're looking for a middle-class point of view in the British

00:19film industry it's extremely well represented because there are 95% middle-class filmmakers,

00:26directors, actors out there. So that the working-class point of view is very minor.

00:36If C.B. Waller Bridger wakes up tomorrow and says I'm going to be a director, hundreds of people are

00:42going to have the hands out with money for her to direct a film even though she's never directed

00:47a film before. She's the right class, she's well known, she's connected.

00:56For working-class people in this industry, in all parts of this industry and we're determined

01:03to keep holding that door open. If we exclude people with that talent we undermine ourselves,

01:09we undermine the great richness. Class needs to work as well, if you've got people in charge who

01:15have no personal experience of the stories they are telling. I think it affects the country as a whole

01:20and I think it's ingrained within society. Those people are pretty much the bloody same. They're not

01:28people from Doncaster or Hull, they're usually people from Oxbridge. The systems and the culture

01:35that is making it very difficult for these, for people from these groups to get into the industry,

01:40that needs to shift.