Presented by
Underscore Studios x BFI
Returning 2025
Underscore Cinema first took place at the Rio Cinema Dalston on the 11th of February 2023.
It was a fantastic event supporting working-class voices in the film industry.
8% (2024)
The research revealed that only 8% of creatives in TV and film are from working class backgrounds,
16% (2020)
"Of people in creative jobs are from working-class backgrounds and those from privileged backgrounds more likely to shape what goes on stage, page and screen”
12.4% (2018)
The number of people who come from a working-class background working in Film, TV or Radio.
Programme
FEATHERWEIGHT
Kayleigh Gibbons
HANGING ON
Alfie Barker
STAN
Ben Brown
POP
Margo Roe
THE SKIN I MOVE IN
Christine Ubochi
NOWT
Ash Morris
THESE STREETS
Tyler Richards