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The Widow | TV Q&A by BAFTA

The creative team behind the Netflix hit, Happy! will share some of their secrets and behind-the-scenes magic that went into creating this ambitious CGI character. Panellists include Luke Smith, Senior Animator, Happy! Season 1&2; and Friedl Jooste, Animation Supervisor, Axis Animation.

Join director Douglas Mackinnon (Doctor Who, Sherlock, Good Omens) as he takes you on a visual tour behind the scenes of his shows. Hosted by Carolynne Sinclair Kidd

Experts from the world of factual TV delve into how they hunt down real-world stories and bring them to life for their viewers. Panellists include Jack Cocker (Director/Producer - imagine… Rupert Everett Born to be Wilde, imagine… Richard Flanagan: Life After Death, Mining Poems or Odes), Becky Read (Producer/Director - Three Identical Strangers, Killer in Our Classroom: Never Again, Reggie Yates: Life and Death in Chicago), and Senior Commissioning Editor, BBC Documentary, Hamish Fergusson (Louis Theroux: Altered States, Hospital). Hosted by Michael McAvoy (Head of Factual, Two Rivers Media).

Discover the making of Channel 4's hit comedy about teenagers in 90s Northern Ireland with writer Lisa McGee, cast Saoirse Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan and Dylan Llewellyn, and director Michael Lennox.

Take a journey through Chiwetel Ejiofor's career with the legendary actor himself! Listen to the end to hear Chiwetel's insights on the industry, his thoughts on diversity and inclusion and his advice for actors early in their careers.

The Athena is a brand new tween drama on Sky Kids following the journey of a young woman who moves from modelling to art school. Arielle Free hosted Q&A with creator/lead writer Holly Phillips, director Isabelle Sieb and actors Sophie Robertson and Tafline Steen. “Being a teenager can be really lonely so my main ambition is that teenagers find this series and see their stories reflected back at them and feel less alone,” Holly Phillips.

Listen to this year’s 2019 EE British Academy Film Awards nominees in the British Short Film and British Short Animation categories discuss their innovative and experimental fiction, non-fiction and animation short films.

Writer, actor and director Alice Lowe discusses director Penny Woolcock’s BAFTA-nominated TV drama Tina Goes Shopping, a unique scripted reality series released on Channel 4 in 1999. This edition of BAFTA Selects is hosted by writer and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer.

What's it like to live with intrusive thoughts and OCD? Check out this Q+A with the creators of Pure, a new comedy drama on Channel 4 all about the experiences of Marnie (Charly Clive) as she moves to London and learns to deal with her "pure O."

BAFTA Scotland was joined by Suzanne Reid (co-producer), Tom Sayer (production designer), & Frith Tiplady (executive producer) for a Q&A following a special preview screening of new Sky One drama Curfew.

Writer and Director Michael Pearce, actors Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn and producers Lauren Dark and Ivana MacKinnon discuss Beast. The psychological thriller is set on the island of Jersey.

Directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin discuss their character portrait of professional rock climber Alex Honnold, as he completes the first free solo climb of famed El Capitan's 3,000-foot vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.

Director Tim Wardle and producer Becky Read discuss the journey in making the investigative documentary of identical triplets separated at birth and uniting as young adults. Find out how they navigated scientific analysis and moral truths to bring this remarkable true story to life on screen.

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda discusses his Palme d'Or-winning film about a family who takes a young girl into their care, Shoplifters. Learn what draws him to films about families and hear his surprisingly simple tip for being an incredibly prolific filmmaker.

Get the behind-the-scenes scoop on the making of The Favourite with Hair & Make Up Designer Nadia Stacey, Sound Designer Johnnie Burn, Casting Director Dixie Chassay and Production Designer Fiona Crombie.

Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet, director Felix Van Groeningen, screenwriter Luke Davies, producers Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner discuss their 2018 film Beautiful Boy. Also joining them are father and son, David and Nic Sheff, on whose memoirs the film was based. The film follows a father's harrowing account of trying to get his son off crystal meth.

The BAFTA-nominated actress discusses her career and provides insights into credits including Colette, Atonement, The Imitation Game, Pride & Prejudice and Bend It Like Beckham.

BAFTA-nominated actress Rosamund Pike discusses Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial intelligence thriller Zero Dark Thirty, nominated for five BAFTA Film awards including Best Film and Best Director. This edition of BAFTA Selects in hosted by Siobhan Sinnerton, Commissioning Editor for News and Current Affairs and Immersive Content at Channel 4.

Join a panel of TV drama directors as they share insights and experiences on leading a creative vision, working with writers and actors and who their key collaborators on set and in the edit are. Get a front row seat to hear how the global TV drama boom continues to provide opportunities for directors to develop and deliver their creative visions on screen like never before! Speakers: BAFTA-winning director Jonny Campbell (Informer, Westworld, In the Flesh, Eric and Ernie) SJ Clarkson, Director (Succession, Collateral, Vinyl, Star Trek 4) BAFTA-winning director Euros Lyn (Kiri, Damilola: Our Loved Boy, Happy Valley, Sherlock) He also won the BAFTA Cymru Sian Phillips award in 2015. Tom Shankland, BAFTA-nominated Director (Les Miserables, The City And The City, House of Cards)