MacTaggart Lecture: Jack Thorne | Edinburgh TV Festival 2021
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2021
- To watch with BSL and Live Captioning: • MacTaggart Lecture: Ja...
We are able to make the TV Festival free for freelancers excluded from government support and run our lifechanging free to access schemes thanks to the TV Foundation. In this challenging year making the industry more accessible is more important than ever. You can support the TV Foundation by texting 20FESTIVAL5 (for £5) or 20FESTIVAL10 (for £10) to 70085 to donate. Or donate any amount online at donate.giveasyoulive.com/dona...
Highly acclaimed dramatist and playwright, Jack Thorne, delivers the flagship session of this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival brought to you by RUclips and Screen Scotland; The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture.
A celebrated and multi award-winning creator and writer of TV shows, films and stage plays ranging from His Dark Materials, Kiri, This is England 88,86 & 90 and The Virtues to Enola Holmes, The Secret Garden, Don’t Take My Baby, The Solid Life of Sugar Water and Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, as a disabled professional, Thorne is a vocal champion, campaigner and ally of other disabled creatives both in front of and behind the camera. At a time when questions are being asked about how the industry and society at large treats those who are under-represented, Thorne puts disability centre stage. This lecture focusses on the need for greater representation, platforming the voices of disabled professionals- both visible and invisible - and the role the TV industry has to play in defining a more accessible future, underpinned by his own life experience and drive to use his position and voice to influence change.
His forthcoming work includes Help, a film for Channel 4 drama directed by Marc Munden, which is set in a fictional Liverpool care home and tells the moving story of the relationship between a young carer (Jodie Comer) and a patient (Stephen Graham), whose lives are changed forever by the onset and handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Thorne has also co-written (with Genevieve Barr) a new BBC factual drama Independence Day? How Disabled Rights Were Won (w/t) starring Ruth Madeley, based on the remarkable true story of the people behind an irrepressible campaign of direct-action that lead to the winning of disabled civil rights in Britain.
“This country has a glaring problem at the moment and it's in its treatment of disabled people. In the last two years people have died who didn't need to, and those that survived were treated appallingly, ignored and shut out. We lived and live in a two-tier society, those with 'Underlying Health Conditions' (a disgusting term) and those without. Our industry has a record of shutting out disabled voices itself but now has an opportunity to step up and take responsibility, both for its history and its future. We are the empathy box in the corner of the room and we can change things. I am far from the perfect advocate for this but will do all I can to further this vital conversation.”
Jack Thorne
Subscribe for more: bit.ly/EdFestSub
Find out more here: bit.ly/1SiJFQb
#EdTVFest #JackThorne #MacTaggartLecture 
Развлечения
![Finesse2Tymes - Pretty Ricky [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xIoP_mhYRT0/mqdefault.jpg)
I've been in & around the tv industry for 35 years, but
this is the first time I've heard my experience of broadcasting shared on such an important platform. For me Jack's words were cathartic & seismic 20 years after the industry's historic discrimination and endemic ableism forced me to focus elsewhere. We now need the industry to take swift & decisve action. Bravo Jack and thank you.
Jack Thorne is a hero. And props to be the first person in the history of the McTaggart to include a reference to rimming. But a brilliant, passionate, human, kind and intelligent speech that will go down as one of the very best.
I have joined deaf and disabled people in tv and DANC Its the biggest minatory community on the planet I have been there for over 20 years thank you Jack Thorne xx
You are far from the coward you label yourself, Jack. You a brave, outspoken and passionate advocate of the rights of disabled people. Brilliant speech!
Thank you Jack for speaking the truth for so many disabled identifying people in the TV and Film industry. Yes the time is now and even with positive sentiments it has been glacial in movement so far. Narratives shape the world, the opinions of people and the perceptions within society and our TV's are that doorway. I hope the commitment to this change is galvanised by your blistering, heartfelt and radical speech. Thank you.
Jack, that was one hell of a moving speech. A bit numb stunned right now tbh. Heartfelt, crucially important and very very brave. Thank you for your impassioned advocacy and for so eloquently shaming me into awareness of these deeply disturbing issues. Salut 👏👏
Jack, you are outstanding. That was an incredibly powerful address. Thank you for your insights and for your honesty.
This moved me to tears. I felt angry, disgusted, and yet hopeful for change, which must happen.
Such a powerful and important message. Thank you Jack.
A mindblowingly brilliant speech. It should be compulsive viewing for everyone in all sectors and especially for all politicians. A massive thank you to Jack Thorne, to the Edinburgh TV Festival and to all involved for bringing this extroardinary call to action into the light.
This talk moved me to tears and inspired me to do (much, much) better. Thank you for your honesty and powerful words, I'll never forget this.
to quote Mat Fraser:
"Wow @jackthorne, that was an AMAZING MacTaggart lecture! SO powerful, dramatic, and true. Thank you Jack, thank you xx AAARRGGGHHHHHH!"
I heartily concur with Mat. Jack Thorne, you're a genuine ally in the struggle for disability equality, we need many more people like you.
O wow! This is inspirational! We must do better. Well done to you. You might like Cbeebies' 'Pablo' a great wee character who has travelled all over world. It took an amazingly talented autistic team of writers and actors to create this amazing autistic character who shares his preschool passions and joys in every episode. Good luck Jack. Bravo.
This was amazing.
One year on, and it does seem like things are slowly shifting. Channel 4 has promised new commitments to disabled talent, among other channels, and Thorne and the people at UHC have been working on more stuff.
wow! thank you! brilliant!
What a poignant speech. It really struck me hard. Thank you!
And here in California we got forgotten again when gavin newsom didn't include people on ssdi to receive the golden state stimulus but did include non-citizens to receive the $600 checks. As if people with disabilities didn't have additional expenses due to the pandemic. Which could've helped pay for delivery fees, gasoline and medicine due to price increases.
Gut wrenchingly honest I promise to do better
Before someone comes in to spout 'background shouldn't matter, best person for the job', that mindset has the same problem as 'I don't see colour': a nice sentiment but it's naive and a lazy way to avoid discussing the uncomfortable reality that a lot of disabled people, among other groups, face in the film and tv industry, One that is used by certain people to not solve problems and just do finger-in-ear-sticking. It's like when some say 'everyone has it hard' to not talk about kids in poverty or abuse.
Jack is hardly disabled. He can't relate to people in wheelchairs and people who actually suffer with horrible disabilities. He has no right to speak on it. He's talking like he's been paralysed and fucked up bad, when everything he's saying is purely just coming from his own self-pity of what he used to be.
Gatekeeping disabilities are we? And literally at the end, Jack says he doesn't speak for the whole community, so good job showing you didn't watch the whole thing or bother listening to anything he said. The mistreatment, the abuse, everything he spoke about was on point.
Just because a disability isn't visible doesn't mean it's not a valid disability and doesn't necessarily mean you're less disabled. The idea that only people in wheelchairs count as "truly disabled" is exactly the kind of ableist prejudice we've been trying to fight against. P.S not everyone who uses a wheelchair is paralyzed.