Published on: 21 October 2024 in Industry

Directors Digest — Friday 25 October 2024

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In the news this week, ScreenSkills publishes five-year vision for the industry, BAFTA Cymru Award winners celebrated, and talk of recovery in the TV drama market.

 

Read all about it in this week's digest.


News

•  ScreenSkills publishes its five-year vision for the industry which includes collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders (Broadcast). We're pleased to form part of the taskforce that fed into it, and look forward to helping it meet its objectives. Read the full strategy: Powering Skills Across The UK. (ScreenSkills)

•  Screenwriters speak out as broadcaster looks for head of generative AI innovation (Broadcast), a topic many members are worried about.(X/Twitter)

Features

•  After a long and painful downturn, there is talk of green shoots of recovery in the TV drama market, say scripted execs. (Screen)

•  Alisa Pomeroy, Head of Documentaries & Factual Entertainment at Channel 4, discusses the state of factual commissioning. (Televisual)

Opinion

•  In the Guardian, an anonymous whistleblower in TV production reports being ‘ghosted’ after reporting gruelling hours, drug use and concerns for female colleagues’ welfare.

Director Interviews

•  “I went from writing about one guy in a car to a noir thriller on an ambitious scale. It utterly transformed my career.” Member Hugo Blick on the making of noir thriller The Shadow Line. (Guardian)

Awards

•  Llongyfarchiadau enfawr i bob un o'r ennillwyr yng Ngwobrau BAFTA Cymru 2024 neithiwr! Huge congratulations to all the winners last night at the BAFTA Cymru Awards 2024! You can find the full list of winners here. (BAFTA). Well done to member Jess Howe, who won Director: Factual, and member Euros Lyn who won Director: Fiction.

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