20 distinctive creatives working in movie, video games and tv within the UK have been chosen
At the moment, BAFTA broadcasts the 2025 cohort for BAFTA Breakthrough UK, supported by Netflix, that includes 20 ‘must-watch’ creatives working in movie, video games and tv.
BAFTA’s flagship new expertise programme, Breakthrough stays a necessary a part of BAFTA’s mission to encourage and nurture artistic expertise – a imaginative and prescient shared by Netflix, who assist the scheme within the UK.
The year-round initiative gives hand-selected creatives from an unlimited vary of disciplines, who’re on the cusp or within the midst of a breakthrough second, with a springboard to the following thrilling section of their careers. The initiative provides one-to-one conferences and profession steering, full BAFTA awards voting membership, entry to BAFTA trade networking occasions and screenings, each within the UK and internationally. BAFTA North America will announce the Breakthrough US expertise in December.
This 12 months’s UK cohort span craft specialisms from costume design, manufacturing, casting, modifying and video games design, to efficiency, writing, directing, composing and cinematography, and have labored on a few of the most acclaimed artistic initiatives from the final 12 months.
The complete record of this 12 months’s BAFTA Breakthrough UK cohort is as follows:
- Akinola Davies Jr – director/co-writer (My Father’s Shadow)
- Alderney Middleton – sequence producer (Maddie + Triggs)
- Cara Ellison – author/ narrative designer (Ghost City)
- Ellis Howard – performer (What It Feels Like for a Lady)
- Jodie-Simone Howe – costume designer (Mr Loverman)
- Kyle Banks -director (Farewell North)
- Laura Carreira – director/author (On Falling)
- Marie-Elena Dyche – producer (Harvest)
- Mark Choi – composer (Empire of the Ants)
- Matthew Gurney – performer (Reunion)
- Megumi Inman – co-director/producer (Atomic Individuals)
- Nathalie Pitters – director of images (Brian and Maggie)
- Nathaniel Value – author/affiliate producer (Mr Loverman)
- Olaide Sadiq – director (Grenfell: Uncovered)
- Owen Tooth – director (EastEnders)
- Pinny Grylls – director/author/editor (Grand Theft Hamlet)
- Sally Beaumont – lead voice actor/script advisor (Previous Skies)
- Stanley Baxton – solo developer (LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST)
- Stephanie Taylor – composer (The Search For Nicola Bulley)
- Vivian Eguridu – sequence casting producer (Love is Blind UK Sequence 1)
Globally, over 330 folks have handed via the programme thus far, together with screenwriters, actors, video games designers, producers, costume designers, administrators, director of images, editors and manufacturing designers. Many go on to develop their very own video games, TV exhibits or options and obtain nationwide and worldwide trade acclaim, together with 200 BAFTA nominations and over 80 wins.
Breakthrough individuals are chosen via an open utility course of. This 12 months’s cohort had been chosen by 5 sector specialist teams made up of main trade figures from the world of movie, video games and tv with BAFTA and Netflix representatives.
Now in its sixth 12 months supporting BAFTA Breakthrough UK, Netflix continues to play an integral function within the scheme – serving to to highlight and supply alternatives for rising expertise throughout artistic disciplines, and to develop and assist tales and voices from a various vary of backgrounds.
CREDITS
Make-up – Claire Walker, Holly Bee & Jemima Greenhalgh
Hair – Philipp Haug and Connie Marshall courtesy of Schwarzkopf Skilled
Stylist – Peter Bevan
Styling Assistant – Clementine Lucy Brown
