BAFTA have just launched an annual career development programme helping to elevate individuals from under-represented groups to the next stage of their career – BAFTA Elevate.
The programme comes in support of research carried out in 2016 by BAFTA, in partnership with Creative Skillset and BFI, examining the career success factors of film, television and games practitioners from under-represented groups.
2017’s programme will focus on female directors seeking to progress in high end television and features. One of the main issues that they are hoping to address is the gap between 50/50% male/female film school graduates and 87/13% male/female industry directing hires and producers’ desire to hire female directors but saying that they are often hard to find.
The programme is not designed to teach direction, so all applicants must have a certain level of experience to be eligible. You will need to:
Have proven work to your name and experience working with a professional crew and to a fixed budget and schedule, as well as directing other writers’ scripts
Likely to have had experience directing either a festival recognised feature or have festival recognised short film. However you must not have worked in high end TV or have directed a continuing television drama
Documentary directors with a strong track record who want to make the leap to fiction will also be considered.
To find out more and if you are eligible to apply visit BAFTA Elevate.
If you are interested in finding out more about the report you can go to Creative Skillset.