Film London Lodestar 2025: Georgie Yukiko Donovan
Film London Lodestars 2025Crew & Industry
Georgie has directed an award-winning body of work across series, films, and podcasts for outlets such as Netflix, Channel News Asia, and the BBC. Her work explores the intersections of human interest and socio-political issues, tackling complex subjects such as racial identity in Japan, rising anti-feminism in South Korea, hostage negotiations with Boko Haram, and trauma recovery in war veterans.
She is passionate about bridging intersections and re-centering marginalised voices, particularly within the East Asian community. This is focused through her work as Director of Rising Waves, an organization dedicated to amplifying British East and South East Asian (BESEA) voices across the arts and media industries.
In 2023, Georgie was recognised as a promising industry leader by FILM LONDON’s Breaking Glass Ceiling cohort. Most recently, she was selected for Ones to Watch by the TV Foundation and as a 2024 Breakthrough Leader by the TV Collective.
Relationship to Film London
Breaking The Glass Ceiling 2023 particpant
After completing the 2023 Breaking The Glass Ceiling programme (cohort 3), Georgie Yukiko Donovan poured back into the EAN by speaking at the symposium for the Mayor of London Design Lab; a 10-month advanced EDI program aimed at tackling the underrepresentation of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic groups in the creative industry. Alongside this, working as a Producer for the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund, Georgie ran a Q&A Session to our members offering advice on what taking part in the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund process is like. We are grateful to Georgie for her time and dedication to the EAN.Tomi Ojo, Equal Access Network Membership & Projects Manager