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This brand-new report: “Writers and directors of film and TV/SVOD fiction:  2015-2021 figures ” has just been published by the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. This report provides an analysis of writers and directors of European theatrical films and TV/SVOD fiction produced in Europe between 2015-2021.
Key findings include:

• Over 22 500 writers and over 15 000 directors were involved in the production of European theatrical and TV/SVOD fiction between 2015 and 2021. 
• Better resilience of TV/SVOD assignments: the COVID-19 crisis had a much greater impact on theatrical film assignments than TV/SVOD fiction assignments.
• Intense turnover: Theatrical film writers wrote on average 1.3 films between 2015 and 2021 and TV/SVOD fiction writers participated on average in 1.9 TV films or TV series; theatrical film directors directed on average 1.3 films between 2015 and 2021 and TV/SVOD fiction directors participated on average in 2.2 TV films or TV series.
• Moving from films to TV fiction: A significant share of 2015-2021 TV/SVOD fiction writers (33%) and directors (58%) have at some point also written or directed a theatrical film.
• The ‘film d’auteur’ model remains dominant in European film: close to half of writers active between 2015 and 2021 wrote only films they directed; close to 59% of directing credits were combined with a writer credit for the same film. The model is radically different for TV/SVOD fiction where most writers (92%) wrote for projects they did not direct. 
   

Our team of Experts and Analysts is ready to present our 2022 autumn collection of free reports on the film, television and VOD sectors in Europe. As always, we’ll be analysing new market data as well as providing our take on the latest developments in European media legislation.

From our Department for Market information, we’re pleased to announce forthcoming reports on:

• Original content production
• AV media services in Europe 
• The 2022 edition of our Yearbook online service
• Analysis of VoD catalogues
• Financing analysis of fiction films in Europe
• Gender in European film production
• Ownership of AV services
• Green production indicators

And our Department for Legal Information will be releasing reports on:

• Prominence of European works and general interest content
• User empowerment in the media to fight against disinformation in AVMS and VSPs
• New monthly editions of our IRIS legal newsletter
• Updates of our AVMSD tracker of national transposition of the AVMSD

Watch this space and our social media channels for alerts on each new publication!