Congratulations to the 5 NFTS graduates who have today been named BROADCAST HOTSHOTS by Broadcast Magazine - the UK's leading publication for the television industry.
This prestigious accolade annually recognizes the best up-and-coming talent in the UK’s television industry and, this year, has been awarded to 66 talented under 30-year-olds. These include NFTS’ Directing Fiction graduate Lewis Arnold, Production Management graduate Georgia Orwell, Directing Documentary graduates Adeyemi Michael and Jack Warrender and Cinematography graduate Maja Zamojda.
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On graduating from the NFTS, Lewis Arnold was snapped up to direct episodes of the Channel 4 hit series Misfits and the forthcoming E4 series Banana. Red Planet Pictures producer Nick Pitt told Broadcast magazine: "Lewis’s three memorable short films caught my eye – intense, strange, sometimes ‘other’ and yet totally accessible both in terms of emotion and story.”
Documentary Directors Jack Warrender and Adeyemi Michael’s NFTS graduation films also caught the industry’s attention. Adeyemi, 29, emerged as an exciting directing talent with his first film Sodiq, which won the Grierson Student Award. Darlow Smithson Productions subsequently chose him to help shoot The Road to Houston, an ob-doc series about the Shell Eco-Marathon. Speaking to Broadcast, Executive Producer Jane Sayers praised the “gritty, poignant, humbling and humorous” footage captured by assistant producer Adeyemi and director Lucy Fyson.
After completing his MA at the NFTS, Jack Warrender, 28, took his graduation film Side By Side to the Scottish Documentary Institute and Creative Scotland’s This Is Scotland, a scheme for up-and-coming documentary makers. Jack worked as a producer/director on BBC Scotland’s 12 Days, a 60 minute doc about the Commonwealth Games. Then with fellow NFTS graduate Pete Akar, he made five films for Channel 4 News that have aired in the run up to the Independence referendum under the banner Conversations About Scotland.
Since graduating from the NFTS in Production Management, Georgia Orwell, 25, has worked on the BBC Proms and the live broadcast of ITV’s National Television Awards. Live events producer Alison Brodie, who gave her a break on the Proms, predicts a production manager role for Georgia with a future in events or film production, adding: “As well as being a delight to work with, she’s always one step ahead of what’s required.”
Broadcast says that NFTS Cinematography graduate Maja Zamojda, 29, ‘has amassed an impressive set of drama credits as Director of Photography.’ These include credits on Skins, Skins Redux, the Channel 4 series Dates and Fresh Meat and BBC1’s The Village. Charlie Sturridge says: “Maja has two great skills: she is sensitive and decisive. The second is the more important. As we approached the last hour of our shoot, I told my first AD: ’These are three very small shots I need and I’m going to shoot them in the last 10 minutes of the day. No-one will care about them except me but they are important to the edit.’ I knew Maja would not panic. We shot all five, running from set up to set up, all pre-lit. All made the final cut.”
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