All posts tagged: BAFTA Breakthrough

‘Atomic People,’ ‘Harvest,’ ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’

‘Atomic People,’ ‘Harvest,’ ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’

The 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort of rising U.K. talent across film, TV, and gaming, supported by Netflix, has been unveiled, and it represents creatives from across such craft areas as producing, writing, directing, editing, acting, and more. Among the 20 “must-watch” creatives highlighted in the latest year of the BAFTA Breakthrough initiative are Grand Theft Hamlet writer-director Pinny Grylls, whose feature documentary focuses on two out-of- work actors attempting to mount a production of Hamlet inside the world of Grand Theft Auto that was shot in game, Mr Loverman series writer and associate producer Nathaniel Price, Scottish Highlands period drama Harvest producer Marie-Elena Dyche, and Megumi “Meg” Inman (Black Box Diaries), the co-director and producer of Atomic People, which gives voice to survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. THR caught up with them to discuss their hopes for the BAFTA Breakthrough experience, the works that have gotten them into it, and future plans. Marie-Elena Dyche Having worked as a producer on such successes as Blue Jean, How to Have Sex, and Harvest, starring Caleb …