43 'must-watch' creatives join BAFTA Breakthrough cohort after stunning work in TV, film and games

43 up-and-coming creatives person joined the BAFTA Breakthrough collective, a cohort of rising artists crossed film, games and tv successful the UK, US and India.

Supported by Netflix, this breathtaking endowment inaugural is present successful its 11th twelvemonth who are either successful the midst oregon connected the cusp of their breakthrough moment.

To enactment their careers and aboriginal mainstream success, each idiosyncratic named successful the year-long inaugural volition person entree to one-to-one meetings for vocation guidance arsenic good arsenic afloat voting rank and entree to BAFTA events.

Those listed see the masterminds down immoderate of the biggest hits of the twelvemonth arsenic good arsenic autarkic gems that are a indispensable to question out.

BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip said: ““BAFTA Breakthrough, present successful its 11th year, spotlights a big of emerging and talented ‘must-watch’ originative practitioners moving crossed film, games and television.

“This twelvemonth we person an astonishing roster of casting directors, producers, writers, performers, pb artists, cinematographers, pb developers, and more. We impulse the manufacture to instrumentality note.

“A immense convey you to Netflix, whose enactment makes BAFTA Breakthrough possible.”

Previous alumni see the likes of One Day’s Ambika Mod, The Last of Us prima Bella Ramsey, Strictly sensation Rose Ayling-Ellis and acclaimed actors Paapa Essiedu and Jessie Buckley.

The afloat 2024 cohort is arsenic follows:

UK BREAKTHROUGHS (21):

● Alice Russell, Director - If the Streets Were connected Fire

● Beth Park, Lead Performance Director - Black Myth: Wukong

● Clair Titley, Director - The Contestant

● Cobbie Yates, Costume Designer - Layla

● Daf James, Creator/Writer/Executive Producer/Musical Director - Lost Boys & Fairies

● Fred Hoffman, Art Director - Paper Trail

● Georgina Hurcombe, Creator/Producer/Director - Pop Paper City

● Harry Gilbert, Casting Director - G'wed

● Jennifer English, Performer - Baldur's Gate 3

● Kyla Harris*, Lead Performer/Co-Creator/Co-Writer/Associate Producer - We Might Regret This

● Lauren Sequeira, Creator/Writer/Executive Producer - Domino Day

● Lee Getty*, Co-Creator/Co-Writer/Associate Producer - We Might Regret This

● Loran Dunn, Producer - Hoard

● Luna Carmoon, Writer/Director - Hoard

● Luned Tonderai, Series Director - Miriam: Death Of A Reality Star

● Mawaan Rizwan, Performer/Writer/Creator/Executive Producer - Juice

● Otto Baxter, Writer/Director/Performer - The Puppet Asylum

● Poulomi Basu, Creator/Director/Writer/Art Director - MAYA: The Birth of a Superhero

● Rochelle Newman, Producer - White Nanny Black Child

● Shahnaz Dulaimy, Editor - Top Boy

● Sophie Knowles, Lead Artist – Viewfinder

*applied arsenic a team

US BREAKTHROUGHS (13):

● Angela Walker Patton**, Director - Daughters

● Elaine Gómez, Creative Director - Blink Land

● Erica Tremblay, Writer/Director - Fancy Dance

● Hanna Park, Editor - Bottoms

● Jih-E Peng, Cinematographer - Girls Will Be Girls

● Joy Ngiaw, Composer - WondLa

● Juliana Hoffpauir, Costume Designer - Hit Man

● Karrie Shirou Shao, Game Writer/Lead Designer - Pacific Drive

● Nafisa Kaptownwala, Casting Director - Dìdi

● Natalie Rae**, Director - Daughters

● Nava Mau, Performer - Baby Reindeer

● Nicole He, Creative Director - The Crush House

● Sean Wang, Writer/Director - Dìdi

**applied arsenic a team

INDIA BREAKTHROUGHS (9):

● Abhinav Chokhavatia, Game Producer - Down and Out

● Christo Tomy, Director - Curry and Cyanide: The Jolly Joseph Case

● Deepa Bhatia, Writer/Director/Producer - First Act

● Dhiman Karmakar, Sound Designer/Production Sound Mixer - Amar Singh Chamkila

● Jaydeep Sarkar, Showrunner/Series Director/Executive Producer - Rainbow Rishta

● Monisha Thyagarajan, Series Producer - The Hunt for Veerappan

● Neeraj Kumar, Producer/Lead Developer - Artifice: War Tactics

● Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy, Writer/Director/Performer - Aachar & Co.

● Varun Grover, Writer/Director - All India Rank