Creatives behind programmes ranging from doc feature The Contestant to kids animation Pop Paper City have made this year’s Bafta Breakthrough List.
This year’s guide to the rising stars of TV, film and games in the UK, US and India includes 20 British names, includes Clair Titley, who was recently nominated for a British Independent Film Award for her debut theatrical release, The Contestant.
The director has previously made docs such as The British Woman on Death Row, Britain’s Oldest Standup and Filming our Greatest Generation, all for Testimony Films. She has also been a producer on RDF TV’s The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds and producer/director on Dragonfly TV’s One Born Every Minute.
Also on the list is LoveLove Films managing director Georgina Hurcombe, the creator, producer and director of Pop Paper City, who has also produced animated sequences for Minnow Films’ SAS: Who Dares Wins and Lagos to London.
Rochelle Newman, the Bafta- and RTS-winning producer of feature doc White Nanny Black Child, who has produced docs for Woodcut Media, TriForce Productions, Flickr Productions and Uplands TV, makes the cut, as does Luned Tonderai, series director of Miriam: Make me a Reality Star, who got her break on The Garden’s 24 Hours in Police Custody back in 2015.
The Bafta Breakthrough List 2024 also includes Daf James, the writer of BBC1 drama Lost Boys and Fairies, Kyla Harris and Lee Getty, who created recently-recommissioned BBC2 comedy-drama We Might Regret This, Mawaan Rizwan, comedian and creator of BBC3’s Juice, and writer-director Otto Baxter, who appeared in Sky doc Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story.
Meanwhile, the US list features director Sean Wang and Baby Reindeer actor Nava Mau, while the India list includes writer-director Varun Grover and series producer Monisha Thyagarajan.
