Another day, another scheme aimed at early-career playwrights with age criteria. There are MANY reasons why artist may be emerging later in life, let's understand that and uplift people who have experienced substantial barriers in their careers!

Absolutely disgraceful BAFTA it's been a hard enough year for everyone!!! This is unacceptable and embarrassing!!! #BaftaConnect

BAFTA really needs to review the impact they are causing to creatives. It is #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek after all #BAFTAConnect

As a full member of BAFTA , I'm fuming at this Connect debacle. Connect is meant to be a pathway into BAFTA, not a way to get their hopes up then immediately disappoint them MONTHS after they were meant to hear back regarding membership. Appalling. Do better BAFTA .

Absoloutely unacceptable BAFTA. This industry is hard enough without being given a ray of hope and then taking it away an hour and a half later. #BAFTAconnect

Think today this needs another airing for a few weeks ago. BAFTA

If you received the BAFTA e mails. I am a Mental Health first aider. My DMs are open if you want to talk. It’s tough to be accepted and rejected within a few hours. With this climate too.

Sorry doesn't really cut it guys... #BAFTA #BAFTAConnect

Anyone who’s been affected by the BAFTA debacle today, let’s connect (lol)! If anything we can turn this awful experience into a good one? Maybe we could even do our own database of talent? #BAFTA #BAFTAConnect

Hey everyone in the #BAFTAConnect debacle today - form a cohort NOW while you can find each other! Make a WhatsApp group. Choose a clever AF name. Unity. Industry people will want to work with you. GET IT ALL BABY 💪📷JADEY DUFFIELD Fraser 🔜 MCM Comic Con London Sherice Griffiths | Writer | Director Emily Isaacs

Cheeky change to the bio there. Well, you’ve got to laugh…

Michael Beddoes Katie Leonard BAFTA I think this is a very fair question. Today I've seen people with very strong bodies of work get rejected. Conversely I know colleagues with only one or two relevant IMDb credits who were accepted.

If you've been affected by the #BAFTAConnect 'yes, but no' debacle today, hit up me or Fraser 🔜 MCM Comic Con London - we're turning it into a positive and forming our own WA group to network and support each other.

Hey there - @Ecossefilmmaker and Emily Isaacs have a WhatsApp group for everyone from the #BAFTAConnect mistake today. Don't worry- y'all are going to be connected and a force of nature. Paul Read K.C | Cooking up something Zach Egan I Sound Designer 🔉 Marcus Hedges | Composer Dave Baum ˗ˏˋ bruna ˎˊ˗ *Raymond Vermeulen 1/2

To those who were fucked around by BAFTA today, I honestly believe this right here will do more for your careers, find and work with each other, this is exciting. #BAFTAConnect #baftadisconnect

I’m going to come off an old, but no amount of headlines will make me feel that social media star are equivalent to real A-listers. Cinema and most narrative TV requires investment of time and thought. Social media is a requirement of needing something to do on the loo.

This BAFTA Connect snafu has been turned around in the exact right way by the folk who are now taking their own reins. I’m old enough to remember Baftaslucky225, this has big vibes of that. Props. #baftadisconnect

The universe does funny things sometimes. The whole BAFTA yes/no thing followed literally hours later by an offer from a production company to develop a feature idea of mine.

Oh look, it’s Floptimus Prime.

Why? Her spirit animal is a stick of celery. Only former prime minster to have book that debuted outside the Top 10. She ran to America to give a speech that no one attended. Her constituents booted her. And her own idiocy eroded her PMship in record time. She’s owed nothing.