Prime Video, Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight & Gordon Ramsay’s Studio Ramsay Join 50/50 Female Factual Director Pledge
deadline.comPrime Video, Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions and Gordon Ramsay’s Studio Ramsay are among the 67 networks and production companies to commit to having half of their UK factual shows directed by women.
Campaign group We Are Doc Women has spent the past 12 months urging broadcasters, SVoDs and indies to sign up to its 50/50 pledge and Prime Video has become the first streamer, with other high-profile signees including HiddenLight, Studio Ramsay, Lenny Henry’s Douglas Road Productions, Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions and BBC Studios.
The majority are production companies, although the BBC and Channel 4 signed up several months ago, and each has pledged to share their data annually with We Are Doc Women.
The news shows progress, coming exactly a year after a shock report exposed the deep gender divide in UK factual programming and six months since the BAFTA TV Craft Documentary Director nominations featured just one woman out of 12 nominees, which caused outrage in the sector.
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