BAFTA has announced the winners of the 2025 BAFTA Television Craft Awards at a ceremony in London. Celebrating the exceptional creativity, skill and craft of behind-the-scenes television talent and the best programmes of 2024. The following programmes won two BAFTAs each: Richard Gadd won the Writer Drama category and Weronika Tofilska won for Director: Fiction […]
BAFTA and DCM (Digital Cinema Media) have teamed up with award-winning actress Susan Wokoma to create a national cinema advertising campaign that promotes and celebrates the art of storytelling in video games. It’s the third campaign delivered by the partnership and is releasing in cinemas ahead of the 21st BAFTA Games Awards on April 8th. […]
Studio Lambert, producers of acclaimed comedy drama Boarders, BAFTA winning Three Girls and The Nest, has optioned the exclusive TV rights to Hallie Rubenhold’s new book, Story of A Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen. Award-winning screenwriter Amanda Coe is adapting the book for Studio Lambert for television. Amanda’s work includes Black Narcissus for FX starring Gemma Arterton, […]
Icelandic film and TV studio Glassriver has announced it will co-produce its scripted series Masquerade with Nicholas Weinstock, producer of Apple TV+’s Severance and with his Hollywood-based company Invention Studios, and The Art of Coproduction’s Marc Lorber. In Masquerade, a young American reporter arrives in a small Icelandic village, investigating the old unsolved abduction case […]
Prime Video will launch revenge thriller, Kill Jackie (w/t), starring Oscar, BAFTA and Tony Award winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, Wednesday), based on the acclaimed novel by Nick Harkaway, writing as Aidan Truhen (Karla’s Choice, Tigerman). The series will begin production this March in Bilbao, Lisbon, London and Swansea. The 8-part series will be available […]
Research has found that many of those working in post production have their human rights impacted in a range of troubling ways. The research, which used existing data sets and involved in-depth interviews with 28 individuals, found evidence of systemic issues across all aspects of post production, including exploitative working practices, significant detrimental impacts on […]
ITV has announced that Creative Diversity Partner Sam Tatlow MBE has been promoted to take on the newly created role of Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as Ade Rawcliffe takes up her expanded role as ITV’s Chief People Officer. Tatlow will continue to report to Rawcliffe and her role will be integrated into the […]
BAFTA has announced the appointment of Lee Walters as the new chair of the arts charity’s branch in Wales BAFTA Cymru; a volunteer position to help steer and shape BAFTA’s activity in Wales. He succeeds BAFTA Cymru presenter Angharad Mair in the role, who chaired BAFTA Cymru for nine years. BAFTA Cymru was established over […]
Tina Gharavi, founder of Bridge + Tunnel Productions and best-known as the BAFTA and Sundance-nominated director of I Am Nasrine as well as for directing Jada Pinkett Smith’s four-part Netflix series African Queens: Cleopatra and the upcoming romantic comedy Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day – currently in production with a stellar cast that includes Jack […]
BAFTA has announced the 2024 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, featuring 43 ‘must-watch’ creatives working in film, games and television, from across the UK, US and India. BAFTA Breakthrough is the arts charity’s flagship talent initiative supported by Netflix, providing a springboard to creatives spanning craft specialisms from costume design, production, casting, editing and games design, to […]