Make the art you want to see, says Bafta Breakthrough actor

The coming-of-age story was released just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the terms "woman" and "sex" in the 2010 Equality Act "refer to a biological woman and biological sex" in April this year.

The campaign group For Women Scotland had brought a case against the Scottish government arguing that sex-based protections should only apply to people who are born female. The Scottish government had argued in court that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate were entitled to the same sex-based protections as biological women - but it was defeated.

After the ruling, the judge stressed the law still gives protection against discrimination to trans people, but some campaign groups said it rolled back years of understanding.

There are concerns from some advocacy groups that there is a wider pushback against LGBTQ+ representation in entertainment.

A recent report by US-based organisation Glaad (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) found a "continual decline" in the number of LGBTQ+ characters on broadcast television, but an increase on streaming services.

Newsbeat has been told media watchdog Ofcom collects some diversity data on actors and presenters employed directly by broadcasters, but not on characters within shows.

Also on the Bafta Breakthrough list this year is Stanley Baxton, a 26-year-old narrative game developer originally from Warrington.

He has created games which he describes as "satirical, horrifying or queer" and reflect specific aspects of his life as a trans man in the UK.

"You never see just a realistic, down-to-earth 'this is what trans people experience'," he says.

"It's often fluffier or a: 'Oh, we have a trans person in this, but we're not really gonna talk about it or talk about their experiences'."

In his previous job at a well-known UK game studio, Stanley says at least half of his team-mates were queer, but their personal experiences weren't often reflected in what they were making.

"If the games industry refuses to give us the perspective that we have, we just have to force it ourselves," he says.

"I feel like a slight remedy is the kind of stuff that I'm doing here."

A report released by Glaad last year found that less than 2% of games on major consoles and PC include LGBTQ+ characters, but nearly one in five active video game players identified as LGBTQ+.

Stanley hopes the Bafta Breakthrough initiative can draw more attention to the indie games space, where he believes better work is being done to explore and portray a diverse range of experiences.

"Work's being done, the camera's just pointed in the wrong direction," he says.

Also among this year's Bafta breakthrough cohort is Laura Carreira, the writer and director of On Falling, which follows a Portuguese warehouse worker in Scotland, Akinola Davies Jr, the director and co-writer of UK's international Oscar submission My Father's Shadow, and the casting producer behind Love is Blind UK series one, Vivian Eguridu.

Past Bafta Breakthrough artists include Oscar-nominated actress Florence Pugh, One Day's Ambika Mod and The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey.

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