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Meet the 2024 US Breakthroughs

Posted: 21 Nov 2024

Find out about 2024’s BAFTA Breakthrough US participants.

These talented newcomers from across film, games and television were selected by their industry peers, with writer and former Breakthrough honoree Aadip Desai chairing the process.

To contact a BAFTA Breakthrough participant, email [email protected].

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The leading cross-industry figures who helped select 2024’s cohort included;

  • producer Eduardo Cisneros
  • production designer Jade Healy
  • actor John David Washington
  • writer Julian Breece
  • writer Kemp Powers
  • producer Ken Kao
  • documentary filmmakers Kerstin Emhoff, Shaunak Sen, and Lisa Cortes
  • costume designer Luis Sequeira
  • editor Myron Kerstein
  • documentary cinematographer Rudy Valdez
  • game designer Brenda Romero
  • creative director Chandana Ekanayake
  • artist Del Walker
  • game developer Francisco Gonzalez
  • lead designer Haifa Tabbara
  • composer Jon Everist
  • showrunner Raye Rodriguez.
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The BAFTA Breakthrough programme is supported by Netflix
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Netflix is the main supporter of BAFTA’s flagship new talent scheme: BAFTA Breakthrough, which showcases and supports the next generation of creative talent across Film, Games and Television in the UK, India and the USA.

To date BAFTA Breakthrough has championed 290 creatives, including actors Letitia Wright, Florence Pugh, Abubakar Salim, Josh O’Connor, Niamh Algar and Jessie Buckley. Composer Segun Akinola, game producer Dan Gray, producer Sarah Brocklehurst, production designer Luke Hull, screenwriters Laurie Nunn and Charlie Covell, writers and actors Charlie and Daisy-May Cooper and directors Destiny Ekaragha and Michael Pearce. Previous Breakthroughs have gone on to flourish within their respective disciplines, many becoming BAFTA winners and nominees.

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films, and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching, as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.