A Presentation about the British Board of Film Classification

1. The BBFC
The British Board of Film
Classification and what they do.

2. The BBFC was set up as a non governmental organisation and is
in charge of classifying and censoring Films, DVD’s and Video
games for British audiences.
They brand a film with a classification based on the
representation of several important issues such as the
portrayal of discrimination, Drugs, Sex and Nudity, offensive
language and Violence.
Certain cases may be awarded lower certificates if there is
contextual justification for the portrayal of the issue.

4. The BBFC’s Mission Statement
The BBFC is an independent, self-financing and not-for-profit media content
regulator. We operate transparent, consistent and trusted co-regulatory and self-
regulatory classification and labelling systems in the UK.
As a highly expert and experienced regulator, our mission is to:
protect the public, and especially children, from content which might raise harm risks
empower the public, especially parents, to make informed viewing choices
recognise and respect adult freedom of choice within the law
respond to and reflect changing social attitudes towards media content through
proactive public consultation and research
provide a cost-effective, efficient classification service within our statutory remit
work in partnership with the industry to develop innovative service models to
provide content advice which support emerging media delivery systems
provide an effective service to enforcement agencies