Diverse and working-class film-making talent is struggling to get a foothold in the UK because routes into the sector have been eroded over the past decade, industry figures have told MPs.
The situation is making a career in film possible for only the wealthiest, experts told the culture, media and sport committee on Tuesday.
She said: “I started at 14, where I went to an after school film club and then I went on so many schemes that just aren’t around now.”
We do not have that pathway because it’s been eroded from short film up to low budget.