BFI to refuse funding for films with facially-scarred villains

The institute is backing a campaign which focuses on ending the use of scars on screen as shorthand for villainy

The British Film Institute will no longer fund films in which villains appear with facial scarring.

As part of a campaign by Changing Faces, a UK charity campaigning to end discrimination against people with visible differences, the BFI has pledged to support their I Am Not Your Villain initiative, which focuses on ending the use of “scars, burns or marks as shorthand for villainy”.

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