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EE today announced that British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the jury for the newly named EE Rising Star Award.

Nominees from Northumberland, Falkirk, Somerset, Kent, Bridgend and West Sussex to attend the British Academy Children’s Awards in London

New UK-wide programme of lectures begins with Liverpool John Moores University, Creative Skillset Media Academy Wales and Norwich University College of the Arts.

Inaugural BAFTA Career Pathways Survey, published on the first anniversary of the BAFTA Guru learning resource, to be discussed at industry summit on 15 November

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced the recipients of a new BAFTA Scholarship Programme, which will assist talented people in need of financial support to study a post-graduate course in film, television or games.

BAFTA's annual film lecture will take place on 18 November 2012 and will be delivered by writer/director Pedro Almodóvar.

‘BAFTA A Life In Pictures sponsored by Deutsche Bank: Dustin Hoffman’ takes place on 16 October

For a second year, emerging writers will participate in a BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum at the annual New York Television Festival.

Free workshops offer head start on competition entries

Celebrated screenwriters Julian Fellowes, Scott Frank, Peter Straughan, Brian Helgeland and Abi Morgan to deliver lectures as part of the third annual BAFTA and BFI series exploring the art of the screenwriter.