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Our Career Development and Skills team are pleased to announce an exciting new online session with director Dearbhla Walsh and Emma Obank, Literary Agent from Casarotto Ramsay & Associates
Session Description
Emma Obank will be hosting a webinar for 15 female directors who are currently unrepresented by an agent, alongside Emmy award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh.
Dearbhla and Emma will be on hand to answer your questions, and will discuss topics including securing representation and managing this relationship, navigating the industry both in the UK and in the US, as well as overcoming challenges and taking the next best steps towards building a career in television as a director working in drama and comedy.
This session is for 15 Full and Associate female members of Directors UK who currently do not have an agent and are seeking representation.
The webinar will be taking place via Zoom on Thursday 23 March from 6-7pm.
How to take part
Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV and a maximum 250-word personal statement to [email protected] by Friday 10 March. Please use the subject line: ‘Webinar for Unrepresented Female Directors’.
We advise focusing your personal statement on the content listed above and telling us why you feel you would benefit from this session at this moment in your career.
This opportunity is permitted as Positive Action within the 2010 Equalities Act and acknowledges the under-representation of women, directors of colour and directors with disabilities currently working in the TV industry (Source – Who’s Calling the Shots? - Gender inequality among screen directors working in UK television August 2018 and Adjusting the Colour Balance, Directors UK, September 2018).
Accessibility
If you have any access requirements, such as BSL interpretation, please let us know within your expression of interest.
About Dearbhla Walsh
Dearbhla bio
Dearbhla is the Emmy-award winning lead director and EP of Bad Sisters for Apple/Merman, starring Sharon Horgan. She directed multiple episodes of Fargo S3 and S4, and the award-winning Washington DC episode of The Handmaid's Tale. Dearbhla has a wealth of experience directing TV – other credits include Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot, starring Dame Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman, and Traitors for Channel 4. Dearbhla has just finished filming the upcoming Sunny in Japan for A24/Apple TV+.
About Emma Obank
Emma joined Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, an industry-leading literary agency representing many of the world’s best known creatives in 2014 as an Agent’s Assistant. Today, she represents some of the UK’s most exciting and promising new voices working internationally in Film and TV.
Alongside her agenting work, Emma launched Casarotto’s unrepresented female screenwriter surgeries, which act as a platform for women to gain direct access to Agents and freely ask questions about the industry. The surgeries were hugely successful and have led to further events for female filmmakers.
Emma is a mentee on the 2023 Women in Film & TV Mentoring Scheme where she is being mentored by Jane Tranter. Emma is a mentor herself for Arts Emergency and is a frequent guest speaker at the NFTS.