Creative Equity Toolkit

Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema

This toolkit is a practical guide for improving the experiences of POC (people of colour) audiences, staff and filmmakers – and other intersections including gender, sexuality, disability, income and class — to create lasting change for future generations and sustain your organisation in a meaningful way.

Explainer: what is systemic racism and institutional racism?

Article that unpacks issues around systemic and institutional racism, after Joaquin Phoenix called out systemic racism in this BAFTA acceptance speech.

'“Systemic racism”, or “institutional racism”, refers to how ideas of white superiority are captured in everyday thinking at a systems level: taking in the big picture of how society operates, rather than looking at one-on-one interactions.'

Gari Yala: Centring the experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians at work

This piece of research provides a firsthand understanding of the diversity of Indigenous workers’ experiences in the workplace. Named 'Gari Yala' – which means ‘speak the truth’ in Wiradjuri language – it also provides 'ten truths' organisations must understand to improve workplace inclusion for Indigenous staff.

Hate 2 See It: Is Intellectual Property Racist? (Live Show‪)‬

The Hate 2 See It podcast offers a different view on IP law in the US from Professor Anjali Vats (author, The Color of Creatorship: Race, Intellectual Property, and the Making of Americans). She discusses her view that U.S. intellectual property law is not racially neutral.