NFTS Screenwriting graduate Regina Moriarty has been nominated for a 2015 BAFTA Craft Best Newcomer Award for the production Murdered By My Boyfriend. This comes hot on the heels of winning the 2015 Royal Television Society Award for Best Single Drama.
The original drama became a runaway hit when it was shown, last year, on BBC 3 and then shown again on BBC One due to popular demand.
The critically acclaimed drama – based on a true story about a young woman who falls in love with a man who eventually takes her life – scored an outstanding 3.5m viewing figure (Live +7) the night it screened on BBC 3.
Murdered By My Boyfriend tells the hard-hitting fatal story of a 17-year-old girl caught up in domestic abuse and was penned by Regina just two years after graduating from the NFTS. It was shot by NFTS Cinematographer Carlos Catalan.
WATCH Murdered By My Boyfriend on BBC3 iPlayer on Thursday March 26th at 9pm.
Also nominated for BAFTA Craft Best Newcomer Award is fellow NFTS graduate Documentary Director Marc Williamson for his Channel 4 documentary Last Chance School, which was based on his NFTS graduation film Boys. Marc has previously won Grierson awards for his film.
Many other NFTS graduates have also been nominated for BAFTA Craft Awards and BAFTA Scotland Awards. Read More here
NFTS graduates were also involved in many other RTS award-winning productions:
Best Drama Series went to series two of the BBC2 drama Line of Duty, the first three episodes of which were directed by NFTS grad Douglas Mackinnon.
Best Drama Serial went to The Honorable Woman whose score was composed by NFTS graduates Martin Phipps and Natalie Holt as Co-Composer.
In the Popular, Factual and Features category was The Island With Bear Grylls, on which Tom Sheahan was the Series Producer.
The BBC three-part series Our World War won Best History award and included Cinematographer Stuart Bentley, Composer Jon Opstad and Dialogue Editor/Foley Editor Vicente Villaescusa on the crew.… and finally Tom Hollander gained the award for Best Male Actor for his performance in in the Dylan Thomas drama A Poet In New York, which was directed by NFTS graduate Aisling Walsh, shot by Cinematographer Martin Fuher and edited by Alex Mackie.
Congratulations to all the graduates who worked on the prize-winning projects.
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WATCH Murdered By My Boyfriend on BBC3 iPlayer on Thursday March 26th at 9pm.
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