Directors Digest — Friday 6 December 2024

In the news this week, UK TV exports to US up 13% according to Pact report, RTS Craft & Design Awards winners announced, and prolific filmmaker Barrie Gavin has passed.

Read about it in this week’s Digest

News

•  Sales to the US grew by 13 percent year on year to a new high of £593 million, according to the annual TV Exports Report published this week by TV trade body Pact. (Televisual)

•  UK productions dominated this year’s 2024 Rose d’Or Awards. (Televisual)

Features

•  Inside the fight to make Audio Description a non-negotiable part of the film industry. (Little White Lies)

Director Interviews

•  Chair Karen Kelly was interviewed for the latest edition of Broadcast, sharing her passions, how she got her big break, and her funniest day working in TV. (Broadcast)

•  Mohammad Rasoulof on taking on Iran’s oppressive regime with The Seed Of The Sacred Fig: “Just have hope”. (Screen)

Awards

•  This week winners were announced for the Royal Televison Society’s Craft & Design Awards 2024. (RTS) Congratulations to members Janet Fraser Crook (winner — Director, Multicamera), Paddy Wivell (winner — Director, Non-scripted), and Molly Manners (winner — Director, Scripted) for their wins in the director categories. Click here to see the full list of winners.

Obituaries

•  “The prolific film-maker Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, played a key role in the representation of music and the arts on British and European television from the start of his career in the 1960s”. (Guardian)