The Baird Lectures 2024 Shaheen Baig and Richard Armitage

Casting Director Shaheen Baig is renowned for her ability to find and nurture new and diverse acting talent and rising new filmmakers for both film and television.

Her many credits across the industry include How to Build a Girl, Everybody’s Talking about Jamie, Calm with Horses, The Nest, Three Girls, Black Mirror, The Third Day National Treasure and Strike.  

She is also the casting director for all seasons of Peaky Blinders and Man Like Mobeen.    

Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award 2024: An Evening with Philippa Lowthorpe

The Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award is a special award which recognises an outstanding and enduring contribution to television in the West of England. 

RTS West of England is delighted to present the 2024 award to director and writer Philippa Lowthorpe at a special early evening event at Watershed, with Philippa in conversation with centre chair Lynn Barlow.

Phillippa is a director of both feature films and groundbreaking documentary, and some of the most powerful TV drama series of recent times.

Ross Stringer and Simon Panayi on their RTS Award-winning animation about a boy, a crab and masculinity

A father and son fishing for crab, we gather, as the man gifts his catch to the boy in a loving gesture punctuated by a burst of colour. The crab’s orange shell is the only splash of it in this world of monochrome masculine conformity, the intimidating scale of which is illustrated in the mechanical sequence that follows. We see a conveyor belt of countless identical men crab farming, binge drinking and arm wrestling, like cogs in an alpha male machine, while the son looks on, blankly.

Rosie Jones: Out of Order Part B Q&A

Hosted by Rosie Jones, with team captains Katherine Ryan and Judi Love, Out of Order first launched in February this year, quickly becoming a hit and going on to win Gamechanger Programme of the Year at the 2024 Broadcast Digital Awards.
 
Join Rosie for a deep dive into her time working on the show, why the production was so important and a tease of what’s to come in the next batch of episodes.
 
Out of Order is a Rumpus Media Production for Comedy Central.