Directors Digest — Thursday 6 January

New Year’s Honours, one-shot culinary thrillers, streaming billions and talking points for 2022 — read all about it below. 

Former Directors UK President Paul Greengrass was named on the New Year’s Honours list, as were fellow Directors UK members John Boorman and Andrew Haigh. Congratulations to them all! (Deadline)

Screen International rounds up five industry talking points for the year ahead. 

Consumers spent £3.1bn subscribing to SVoD services in the UK last year, Broadcast reports.

Director Eva Husson and more discuss the 5-year journey towards making Mothering Sunday. (Screen)

Meanwhile, The Skinny looks at the making of Philip Barantini's one-shot culinary thriller, Boiling Point. 

Meanwhile, Andrea Arnold speaks to the Guardian about her four years of filming a cow for her latest work. 

And finally, in the New York Times’ Anatomy of a Scene series, director Guillermo Del Toro narrates a sequence from his latest film, Nightmare Alley. 

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