Birds’ Eye View’s director-at-large, Mia Bays (Oscar winning producer and agitator with 30 years’ experience in film) will be one of the panel of the speakers on Breaking the Class Ceiling, chaired by Danny Leigh and produced by Victoria Musguin-Rowe. She will be joined by Fiona Campbell, Carol Morley, Paul Sng and Billie Porter.

In 2018, socio-economic inequality in the television and film industry became National news, when the Panic! report revealed that the industry was becoming less welcoming to talent from working class backgrounds. Much lip-service was paid to improving access in the months that followed, but what has really changed in a year? Our panel of filmmakers and commissioners discuss their experiences of making it in the industry without connections, a trust fund or private school education.