Directors Digest — Friday 9 February 2024

Director Mark Gustafson has died aged 64, and RDF Television is to shut down. Read the latest headlines below.

News

Amazon teams up with NFTS for a new apprenticeship initiative. (Broadcast)

RDF Television, the 30-year-old indie behind hit UK formats such as Wife Swap, Tipping Point, and Only Connect, will shut down. (Broadcast)

Justine Triet suggests the Oscars need to introduce a gender quota. (Evening Standard)

Obituary

Oscar-winning director of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Mark Gustafson, has died aged 64. (Deadline)

Features

In a roundtable for Broadcast, leading commissioners from around the world reveal how they are moving specialist factual forward.

For Screen, Andrew Haigh breaks down four key scenes from All of Us Strangers.

Mubi Notebook explores the use of music in the films of Aki Kaurismäki, director of Fallen Leaves.