WFTV News & Blogs

To celebrate Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, we were delighted to invite WFTV members and guests to a special luncheon with actress Renée Zellweger, director Michael Morris and author Helen Fielding, including a Q&A hosted by Rhianna Dhillon.

We are thrilled to announce applications are now open for The Elouise Carden Rising Star in Post Production Bursary, in partnership with Radiant Post Production Group. The bursary recognises and supports early-career women working in post production in memory of Elouise Carden , the co-owner and joint managing director of Rapid Pictures and Radiant Post Production. We are delighted to announce that 25 nominees will each receive a free annual membership to WFTV, providing valu

Hope Elliott-Kemp spends her days dreaming up stories that keep you awake at night. An award-winning British writer-director and provocative Gen-Z voice, she creates work that’s funny, fearless and original: danger with a heart, and something to say. She was longlisted for BIFA Best Debut Screenwriter 2025 for Lifehack , a genre-defying heist thriller produced by Timur Bekmambetov ( Night Watch , Day Watch , Wanted ). Her films have screened at Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying fe

On Saturday we were so thrilled to be joined by some of the talent behind Lynne Ramsay’s extraordinary new film Die My Love, including casting director Lucy Pardee, producers Andrea Calderwood and Justine Ciarrocchi and lead actor Jennifer Lawrence.

Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) is continuing its commitment to female leadership with the launch of the 2025 Fast Track to Fearless Leadership Programme. The programme for women in leadership roles, in partnership with Sunbelt Rentals, equips female leaders with the skills, agility, and vision to reshape the future of film, television, screen industries and creative media.

Last week WFTV members were invited to a preview screening of Materialists, written and directed by Celine Song and starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, hosted by Sony Pictures.

We are delighted to announce that applications for the 2025 WFTV Fast Track to Fearless Leadership Programme are now open. The purpose of the WFTV Fast Track To Fearless Leadership Programme is to empower women to thrive in senior leadership positions by providing training and coaching in leadership skills, tools and techniques and mindset. ​We believe that if we want to enact change, one of the most powerful ways is to make sure women leaders are represented at the highest

WFTV is delighted to unveil the 2025 cohort of the Julie Burnell Scholarship: WFTV Production Management Programme, supported by the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund with contributions from UK HETV productions.

It was wonderful to see so many of members enjoying our inaugural WFTV Festival at the Garden Cinema in central London on Friday 7 March in celebration of International Women's Day 2025.

Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) is continuing its commitment to female leadership with the launch of the 2024 Fast Track to Fearless Leadership Programme. The programme for women in leadership roles, in partnership with Sunbelt Rentals, equips female leaders with the skills, agility, and vision to reshape the future of film, television, screen industries and creative media.

Women in Film and Television (UK) presented the Elouise Carden Rising Star Award for Post Production in partnership with Radiant Post...

Yesterday we were thrilled to host a very special luncheon with star of Killers Of The Flower Moon Lily Gladstone, in partnership with Apple Original Films.

Women in Film and TV (UK) has launched its 2024 Four Nations Mentoring Scheme, designed for mid-career women working in film, television and

The prestigious Women in Film & Television Awards 2023 ceremony, in partnership with Sky, took place at London Hilton Park Lane to celebrate

Last night WFTV UK had the great pleasure of hosting a very special screening of Saltburn, directed by Emerald Fennell, and starring Barry Keoghan, Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan at the May Fair Hotel.

Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) is pleased to announce the 2023 cohort of its WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab.

One of the most frequent questions we’re asked when clearing films, documentaries, comedies, dramas and – well, anything celluloid, really,

Bad Wolf’s Jane Tranter & other women working in Welsh film & TV recently attended a networking event hosted by WFTV in partnership with EP

Women in Film and Television (UK) presented the Elouise Carden Rising Star Award for Post Production in partnership with VIS UK.

Women in Film and Television UK (WFTV) has launched its Fearless Leadership Programme, comprising a cohort of eight senior leaders from across the industry who will take part in a course of masterclasses.