The European Audiovisual Observatory publishes its latest study on key trends in the European audiovisual sector 28/05/2021 - The new edition of the research highlights the fact that the continent’s audiovisual sector grew by only 0.2% in real terms between 2015 and 2019 Last week, the European Audiovisual Observatory published its latest study on emerging trends in the European audiovisual sector, entitled “Yearbook 2020/2021. Key Trends. Television, Cinema, Video and On-demand Audiovisual Services – The Pan-European Picture”. Among the main trends, the study indicates that 89% of films promoted on pay-per-view VoD had actually already had a cinema release; that the production of high-end TV series rose by 29% between 2014 and 2019 (a 54% growth since 2015; up 20% from 2018 to 2019); and that, in 2019, most of the traditionally UK-based broadcasting licences migrated to the Netherlands and Spain ahead of Brexit. Meanwhile, the report disclosed that European features directed by female-driven teams accounted for a share of 18%, recording significant differences across the different countries. Overall, women only represented 22% of directors with at least one European feature to their credit between 2015 and 2018. In TV fiction, female directors accounted for an even smaller share (19%) of all directors. Instead, the presence of women was higher among screenwriters, where they represented 25% of active professionals in film and 34% in TV fiction.