Company will launch
London project to encourage more diverse intake of young people with no industry connections
Elisabeth Murdoch’s company is to fund a new London school designed to get young people from different backgrounds into the television industry. Murdoch, the daughter of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and her production company Sister are to set up the Ghetto Film School, already running in two
American cities, in a charitable move designed to open up the world of television to a wider range of newcomers.
Chris Fry, an executive producer at Sister, said that the training school would tackle “a real problem in the industry” in
Britain, where despite increased levels of discussion, leading production companies are dominated by white staff and family connections and unpaid internships continue to skew the intake. “There has been a lot of talk, but really it is about making it happen,” Fry said this weekend.