Directors Digest

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Keeping you updated on the latest industry headlines. Curated weekly.

Directors Digest: 18 June 2026

The BBC plans to cut 550 roles across its Content, Nations and News teams, industry experts discuss why Hollywood productions are moving to the UK, and the 2026 Sheffield DocFest Award winners are unveiled.

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Directors Digest: 11 June 2026

Reclaim The Frame launches a talent development programme for women and marginalised gender directors, the Sundance Institute Directors Lab announces its 2026 cohort, and Rhodri Talfan Davies is appointed the BBC’s deputy director general.

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Directors Digest: 4 June 2026

Research spotlights how the “silence gap” on British TV productions costs crews, the BFI lobbies ministers to exclude screen industries from US trade deals, and industry looks at how online gen Z directors have stormed Hollywood.

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Directors Digest: 28 May 2026

The BFI announces £11.85 million funding to support skills development and training, We Are Parable reveals its 2026 Momentum programme cohort, and the Best Director prize at Cannes is tied.

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Directors Digest: 21 May 2026

Channel 4 sets a review into Married at First Sight UK, a Dogma UK filmmaking programme is greenlit, and women directors struggle to break the “auteur glass ceiling” at Cannes.

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Directors Digest: 14 May 2026

The Grierson Trust and Norma Percy launch a documentary grant, leading directors sign an open letter calling on the EU to support cinema, and the Cannes GREAT 8 feature projects from early-career UK filmmakers is unveiled.

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Directors Digest: 7 May 2026

The Academy announces rule changes to the international feature Oscar, BAFTA Breakthrough applications open to support emerging talent in film and TV, and microbudget filmmakers discuss how they fund projects.

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Directors Digest: 30 April 2026

ScreenSkills launches a new report which identifies unscripted TV directors as one of the hardest mid-level roles to fill, Sheffield DocFest announces its line-up, and the 2026 BAFTA TV Craft Awards winners are unveiled.

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Directors Digest: 23 April 2026

Northern Ireland Screen launches its four-year plan for the next phase of growth across the screen industries, leading film and TV bodies call on the EU to ringfence €2.83 billion to support the audiovisual sector, and Asif Kapadia will direct the last chapter of Up.

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Directors Digest: 9 April 2026

Sheffield DocFest announces its 2026 line-up, Screen Alliance Wales and Creative Wales launch a new directory for film and television productions and more.

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