Session Focus: Do the people we put in the limelight feel properly portrayed? As public broadcasters we have a mandate to include all of society in our programming. There should not be any blank spots on our map of the nation. But we all know there are stories that are rarely told, there are missing perspectives, and there are less visible groups. How do we better include and involve diverse groups of the population in our dramas? Where do we have our blind spots? What are we actually searching for and why? What is lacking? How do we tell stories from within, instead of raising walls around people, creating an ‘us’ and a ‘them’? What does it mean to ‘lend a voice’ to people? Come walk in the shoes of a visually impaired protagonist, a same sex couple and a Muslim mother.
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