Ben Roberts, film fund director at the BFI, said in a statement: “Film has such a powerful influence on society …
The British Film Institute will no longer fund films in which villains appear with facial scarring.
[and] also is a catalyst for change and that is why we are committing to not having negative representations depicted through scars or facial difference in the films we fund …
This campaign speaks directly to the criteria in the BFI Diversity Standards which call for meaningful representations on screen … and [we] urge the rest of the film industry to do the same.”