CDNN Achievements

The CDNN has already made a positive impact within the following areas:

Media Question and Answer Sessions (watch more here)
In partnership with the BBC, CDNN hosted 4 different Q and A sessions about working in the media in Rochdale, Bolton, Manchester and Blackburn. A number of industry experts including Red Productions’ Andrew Critchley and Lime Pictures’ Tony Woods – along with BBC staff spoke to over 600 diverse individuals about ways to enter the media industry.

BANG (British Asian New Generation) Writing Project
CDNN worked with BBC Writers Room to support new talent development from South Asian backgrounds. CDNN promoted the workshops as well as financially supported a writer’s residential week in Kent. From this project, one individual, Aisha Khan, was supported to do a placement with radio soap ‘Silver Street’ and was eventually commissioned to do 5 scripts from this.

Bollywood Movie
CDNN with the Cumbrian Film office of Northwest Vision and Media supported 6 trainees to work on Bollywood Movie ‘Mr Bhatti goes Chutti’. These were roles in areas such as production, costume, camera and locations. The movie starred international star ‘Anupam Kher’ and will see a potential international audience of over 25 million people.

CDNN ‘Unveiling’ (watch more here)
A launch of the CDNN website and welcome of new chair was held at the Lowry earlier in the year. This was an opportunity to raise awareness of CDNN and to thank outgoing chair Caroline Roberts. Over 60 people attended the event and since then the website has had over 21000 hits online and is a valuable resource for recruitment, news and events.

Diversity Leadership workshops
With consultants Freda Shafi and Dawn Cameron, CDNN supported 4 workshops in supporting the industry in areas such as recruitment, marketing and on screen portrayal of diverse talent. CDNN Patron Chris Bisson, Actress Shobna Gulati and newsreader Ranvir Singh were just some of the speakers at the workshops.

Partnership with Royal Television Society
CDNN will be partnering with the Royal Television Society as a supporter of the Northwest awards as well as promoting ‘Change your Deja View’ – an event on audience development. 10 trainees will be on placements at the Northwest awards with 1 trainee attending the award ceremony.

Other noticeable CDNN activity/achievements include:
· · Attendances at Ardwick Works – Careers event encouraging media careers
· · Attendance at Careers Fair in partnership with Manchester University
· · CDNN column in magazine DXN
· · Panel appearance for If the Face don’t fit – media debate
· · Panel appearance for The Writers Journey – for BBC Writers Room
· · Connect and Partner – Funding 4 projects between cultural groups and communities
· · Working with over 40 diverse individuals on a bespoke training programme with 18 of them having work placements
· · Creating an innovative ‘diversity’ game for facebook to support career development

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