The Charter
Written, published, and piloted on a live production.
An organisation that signs the Charter undertakes to make specific, practical arrangements for people of faith on its productions, and accepts being asked whether it has. The Faith Inclusion Production Standard is the how, and it is published.
What signing means
It is a commitment, not a badge
Signatories agree to the practical measures. The test is whether the room exists on the day.
It is specific
The Charter names the measures, so that failure is visible.
It comes with support
Guidance sessions are run for organisations working out how to meet it.
It is free to sign
No fee, no membership, no tier.
Signatories agree to the practical measures. The test is whether the room exists on the day.
The Charter names the measures, so that failure is visible.
Guidance sessions are run for organisations working out how to meet it.
No fee, no membership, no tier.
What it commits you to
What adopting the Charter means on a production.
The measures are the ones the Production Standard sets out. A production that adopts the Charter undertakes to decide them at prep, put them on the call sheet, and answer for them on the day.
Prayer and quiet space
A place to pray on the base plan, somebody named to protect the time in the schedule, and a decision made in advance about what happens when the day overruns.
Festivals, holy days and fasting
A schedule built around named observances from the start. During Ramadan, breaks, hydration and the placing of physically demanding work are planned, and iftar is provided on a unit that wraps after sunset.
Food
Halal, kosher and equivalent catering settled at the catering brief, including travel days and unit moves.
Dress, covering and PPE
Covering, PPE, costume and changing arrangements agreed with costume before a fitting, not negotiated on the morning.
Alcohol, language and conscience
Wrap drinks, sponsor events and networking planned so that nobody is excluded by them, and a settled way of handling a crew member asked to shoot content that conflicts with their belief.
A named person
Somebody on the production a crew member can raise any of this with, named before the first day.
A place to pray on the base plan, somebody named to protect the time in the schedule, and a decision made in advance about what happens when the day overruns.
A schedule built around named observances from the start. During Ramadan, breaks, hydration and the placing of physically demanding work are planned, and iftar is provided on a unit that wraps after sunset.
Halal, kosher and equivalent catering settled at the catering brief, including travel days and unit moves.
Covering, PPE, costume and changing arrangements agreed with costume before a fitting, not negotiated on the morning.
Wrap drinks, sponsor events and networking planned so that nobody is excluded by them, and a settled way of handling a crew member asked to shoot content that conflicts with their belief.
Somebody on the production a crew member can raise any of this with, named before the first day.
The wider work
Where it came from.
Years of interfaith work: film forums, screenings, and communities in the same room around a piece of work. The Standard was piloted on a live production, with prayer breaks, halal iftar and modesty-aware PPE built into the schedule from the start.
Signing is an email, not an application: the organisation’s name and a named contact who can answer for it. Nothing else is asked for, and there is no partnership form behind it.
Next
Sign it, or bring it to a production.
Adopting the Standard costs nothing and the document is free to read. Where a production wants help putting it into practice on a specific shoot, or an organisation wants to train its own people against it, that is work we quote for in writing, through the same enquiry route as everything else we do.
