Manori Ravindran International Editor BAFTA has made key changes to its Television and TV Craft awards in an attempt to level the playing field for women in historically imbalanced categories such as directing.
For the 2023 awards, which are set to take place next spring, the Director categories of factual, fiction and multi-camera will see the top three male and top three female directors from the Round One membership vote automatically going through to jury consideration.
The new intervention is a first for the TV Craft Awards, and intended to increase the visibility of women at the crucial longlisting stage, “with the longer-term aim to encourage a greater representation of women considered,” according to BAFTA.
Not one woman has been nominated in the best factual director category at the awards — a stunning stat that received heavy criticism earlier this year from We Are Doc Women, an org dedicated to supporting female documentary directors, which lambasted the disparity in the nominations.
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