In development
The Faith Charter
A mark a production can hold and put on screen. It is being written now, and the organisations that join early decide what it asks for.
A mark, not an audit
The structure is borrowed from schemes that already work, run by organisations our size.
- Areas of practice. Scheduling around prayer and fasting, prayer and quiet space, dietary provision, dress and PPE (personal protective equipment), facilities, contributor care, and how a unit approaches a community.
- Meet one or more. You commit to the areas you can hold. Nobody claims the whole list on day one.
- A simple form. What you do, on which production, and who holds it. No score, no pass or fail, and nobody inspects your shoot.
- Anyone can nominate. A crew member, a contributor or a congregation can put a production forward, and we ask the production whether it wants listing.
- Light human review. A conversation with someone who has run a unit, to check the answer describes the thing.
- Why three faiths. The Charter began as a white paper drafted between 30 November and 2 December 2024 covering eleven religions. It was narrowed to Islam, Christianity and Judaism because three traditions can be done properly and eleven cannot. Deliverability, not ranking.
Tiers, and you join at the bottom
A production starts where it is and moves up as the practice becomes ordinary.
Signatory
You sign the commitment and you ask every crew member and contributor, in writing, what they need before the job starts.
Practising
You can show the areas worked on a named production: observance in the schedule, provision on the catering line, and someone holding it who is not a crew member's own head of department.
Leading
It runs across the organisation rather than production by production. Your own teams are trained, someone above the line holds it, and you publish what broke.
What the mark carries
An end-credit mark. From Practising upward you carry it on the end board, so the commitment travels with the programme. A scheme nobody sees on a transmission is a scheme nobody joins.
Renewal every three years. It expires. A production that held the mark once and changed nothing does not keep it.
Terms are agreed in writing with each organisation. Nothing about the mark is sold from this page.
Status, said plainly
In development. The Faith Inclusion Toolkit and this Charter are being developed and tested by Futures in Film CIC. Screen Sisters is one of the organisations supporting that development and testing. It is early, and it is adopted by nobody yet. Tier names here are drafts.
The practice is older than the document. Prayer breaks were written into call sheets on 16 and 30 January 2025, more than a year before the Standard was first drafted. The Charter writes down a way of working that already existed, rather than a policy in search of one.
We certify no one until a full cohort has run. A mark awarded before the practice has been through a complete production is decoration, and the first organisation to test it would be right to say so.
Register your interest
Early signatories read the drafts and decide what each area asks for. Privacy and your data.
Or come at it from the work
The Charter is what an organisation commits to. The toolkit is what a unit works from.