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Sky Arts boss Phil Edgar-Jones and Netflix’s global production strategy chief have signed up as ambassadors to a charity offering grants to people of colour.
Screen industry talent can apply to the Grand Plan charity, which is offering three £1,000 grants per month for at least its first two years.
Edgar-Jones and Netflix’s Sophie Taitt are two of the ambassadors alongside the likes of former National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner and Dishoom owner Shamil Thakrar.
The charity was co-founded by Marina Diamandis – also known as the singer Marina and the Diamonds – alongside singer/songwriter Tom Rosenthal and former BBC producer Siddharth Khajuria.
In commercial terms, there have been undoubted winners and losers from the coronavirus pandemic and Bloomsbury Publishing looks like a winner.
Lockdowns have sparked a surge in interest in reading while a strategic move to become a digital business focused on the academic and professional information now looks far-sighted.
The strategic growth initiative hatched in 2016 was called Bloomsbury 2020, with the ‘2020’ referring to the year rather than perfect vision.
Primarily, the ‘pivot’ entailed Bloomsbury increasing its range of digital productions while doing more ‘reversioning’ - translation and localisation of content – and updating of content from its vast back-catalogue.
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