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DirectorsDigest—Friday7June2024
This week, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain calls for legislation on residuals, the CMS committee’s inquiry into film and high-end TV is paused indefinitely, and TV creators discuss the pros and cons of generative AI.
Read all about it in this week’s digest below.
News
Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI’s Sora. (IndieWire)
The Documentary Film Council has announced its first-ever elected board of trustees. (Documentary Film Council)
UK film and high-end TV inquiry faces indefinite pause as committee dissolved. (Screen Daily)
Emerald Fennell, Carey Mulligan join call for industry bodies to fund UK standards authority CIISA. (Screen Daily)
Hat Trick shutters comedy entertainment division. (Broadcast)
Features
Lost Boys and Fairies spurred by ‘alienating’ London-centric industry. (Broadcast)
Opinion
No joke: comedy in crisis. (Broadcast)
Is the indie tax credit finally making the UK a valuable co-production partner? (Screen Daily)
Productions designers, cinematographers, and more TV creators discuss the pros and cons of generative artificial intelligence at the ATX Television Festival. (IndieWire)
Timothy Spall calls on next government not to treat arts as an economic ‘bloodsucker’. (Independent)
Netflix co-chief says creativity trumps algorithms. (Broadcast)
‘I’m sick of it!’ The diabolical reality of being one of the few working-class people in TV. (Guardian)