Directors Digest — Friday 21 June 2024

This week, London set for £9.5bn investment in film and TV production, Bridgerton has added over £250 million to the U.K. economy, and how the “old boy” problem is limiting the sector.

Read all about it in this week’s digest below. 

News

London set for £9.5bn investment boost from film and TV production over next five years. (Screen Daily) 

Netflix Says Bridgerton has added over £250 million to the U.K. economy. (Variety)

Together Films launches distribution campaign fund for films addressing climate crisis. (Deadline)

Director of AI-written feature ‘The Last Screenwriter’ speaks out after London cinema cancels screening. (Screen Daily)

Features

Three lessons learned at the midpoint of a strange year for horror movies. (IndieWire) 

Anouk Aimée – a life in pictures. (Guardian) 

Opinion

John Balson wanted the industry to know freelancers are not ‘expendable‘. (Broadcast) 

Talk of the “old boy” problem is missing from our EDI conversations. (Broadcast) 

Director Interviews

‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right. (Guardian) 

Susan Seidelman brought American indies to Cannes, directed the ‘Sex and the City’ pilot, and that’s not all. (IndieWire) 

Awards

2024 Sheffield DocFest Award Winners. (Sheffield DocFest)

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