BAFTA Tweaks TV Awards To Allow For More Women Directors & International Non-Scripted Shows

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BAFTA has tweaked the rules for some of its TV categories in order to open up the awards to more women directors and international non-scripted shows.

The BAFTA Craft Director categories in Factual, Fiction and Multi-Camera will now see the top three male and top three female directors from round one automatically go through to jury consideration.

The intervention comes after the UK TV industry attracted stinging criticism last year when only one of 12 nominated directors at the Crafts were female.

A report from collective We Are Doc Women late last year found men are three times more likely to direct UK documentaries than women and the BBC and Channel 4 have since committed to a 50/50 gender split in factual. “This new intervention, a first for the TV Craft Awards, will increase the visibility of women at longlisting stage, with the longer-term aim to encourage a greater representation of women considered,” said BAFTA.