The BAFTA Children and Young People Awards have been rebranded and can be included into the annual movie, video games and tv ceremonies.
The org’s help for the kids’s media {industry} and its year-round studying applications will now happen beneath a brand new model, Young BAFTA. New classes for youngsters’s content material can be launched to BAFTA’s movie, video games and tv Awards in 2025. This initiative can be steered by a brand new cross-industry Young BAFTA advisory group.
“The transfer to current kids’s awards within the annual movie, video games and tv BAFTAs is an evolution of the previous Children and Young People awards ceremony which has seen a constant drop in entries and engagement in recent times. The ceremony final befell in November 2022 after a two-year pause,” BAFTA stated in an announcement.
The Young BAFTA advisory group can be led by BAFTA board member and incapacity champion Andrew Miller, recognized for presenting Channel 4 collection “Boom!”
Sara Putt, BAFTA chair, stated: “We are evolving the best way we have fun kids’s movie and tv to make sure our help of the kids’s media sector is impactful, related and sustainable. The new Young BAFTA advisory group, to be led by BAFTA board member and {industry} skilled Andrew Miller, will align BAFTA’s long-standing help of youngsters’s media sector with our charitable mission to convey their wonderful work to wider public consideration and nurture the following technology of expertise.”
Miller added: “The kids’s media {industry} has so typically been on the forefront of progressive, modern and inspirational storytelling. Many on and off-screen creatives and practitioners working throughout the sector owe their careers to kids’s media, together with me. I’m trying ahead to working carefully with the brand new Young BAFTA advisory group over the approaching months to offer recognition to the kids’s media sector throughout BAFTA’s globally revered movie, video games and tv awards and elevate BAFTA’s sensible studying initiatives to encourage the way forward for the {industry}.”
