Moonage Pictures managing director Frith Tiplady and veteran documentary-maker Norma Percy were among the winners at this year’s Women in Film and TV Awards.
Tiplady won the Mercury Studios business award in recognition of Moonage’s success since she founded the company in 2018.
Three of its dramas – The Gentlemen, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder [main picture] and Bodies – have topped Netflix’s global chart.
Meanwhile, Percy won the BBC news and factual award for Brook Lapping’s BBC2 two-parter Putin vs the West.
Faiza Tovey picked up the production manager award for her work on ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, while West End Films head of acquisitions Daisy Allsop, who produced Sky doc Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Horror Story, won the producer award.
Zeb Achondu, an editor whose work includes Bafta- and RTS Award-winning White Nanny Black Child, David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count and BBC2’s Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch, took home the Molinaire post production award.
There were standing ovations for both Kirsty Walk (Paramount contribution to the medium award) and Mary Berry (EON Productions lifetime achievement award).
In her speech, Wark spoke up about the allegations against Gregg Wallace, which included her description of the presenter telling stories of a “sexualized nature” on the set of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
Declaring that “there will be no trivializing of what women have been through”, Walk said: “I’m so proud that they’ve spoken and are still speaking. I want to name two young women, Naur Nanji and Felicity Baker, two brilliant journalists at the BBC who have pursued this story without fear or favour.”
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