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EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video, Sky and British broadcasters person backed an inaugural to train up unit successful hairsbreadth and make-up for actors from taste number backgrounds.
The Textured Hair & Make-up for Deep Skin-Tones Accelerator people comes from Dandi, an offshoot of TriForce Creative Network, which produces long-running ITV quiz Sorry, I Didn’t Know astir Black history.
Courses crossed nan UK will recruit 10 participants across 3 streams — Elevate, Evolve and Equip — bringing together emerging talent pinch transferable skills from extracurricular nan industry, mid‑career hairsbreadth and make-up professionals, and existing unit needing upskilling.
The courses will see in-person training, online sessions, manufacture showcases, paid placements and Dandi support for 2 years. The inaugural is backed by Amazon’s Prime Video Pathway, following its aviator programme successful Scotland successful 2025, arsenic good arsenic nan BBC, Sky, Channel 4, ITV and Screen Alliance North.
The move comes aft investigation recovered that 71 % of actors from Black, Asian and number taste backgrounds still study departments being incapable to meet their hairsbreadth and make-up needs, according to Dandi, which it says “undermines wellbeing, authenticity and accumulation value.” With support from shaper waste and acquisition assemblage Pact, Dandi antecedently published Hair & Make‑Up Equity Guidelines.
“Make-up and hairsbreadth are an integral portion of nan magic of storytelling crossed movie & television,” said Dandi leader Fraser Ayres. “As practice matters and resonates arsenic connected and off-screen: hairsbreadth & make-up artists’ assurance successful our on-set skills, moving pinch each hairsbreadth textures and tegument tones, is cardinal to nan important enslaved of spot betwixt creatives. True assurance successful our profession trajectories comes from owning our important domiciled successful creating a space, wherever everyone feels nurtured, seen and heard to freely definitive ourselves.”
