Students on the NFTS’ Factual Development & Production diploma are being snapped up by major TV broadcasters and production companies – some of them even before they’ve graduated! The 12 month, part-time, diploma course is delivered in partnership with Discovery NetworksInternational and is taught at their London HQ by leading producers and commissioners responsible for some of the UK’s most iconic UK factual shows such as Educating The East End, Salvage Hunters and Bear Grylls.
The skills and experience gained on this course prepare students to go straight into the workplace.
Hannah Palmer graduated from the 2014 course and is currently working on an 8x60 series for the US at Lightbox Media as a Senior Coordinator. She has just returned from the Edinburgh TV Festival where she was the Assistant Producer for the Factual Commissioners session. http://www.thetvfestival.com/?post_type=programme-item&p=4457
Jessica Burgess studied on the course last year and is currently a Researcher at Knickerbockerglory TV working on a new E4 clip show called How To which will be out this year.
The course enables participants to develop the organisational, planning and creative skills required to take an idea through from initial pitch to transmission and beyond.
Emily Hayes Harris is working as a junior development researcher at Brinkworth Films in Soho, London, who have pitched several of her ideas to the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 TV. Before this, she spent four months as a junior researcher at Nutopia on an African history TV series, where her degree in African history proved useful!
Reetu Rupal gave up her job as a journalist last year to pursue a career in TV. She joined the Factual Development & Production course and, following a work placement, is now working at October Films where she is working on a new production. Reetu says the NFTS 12 month part-time course in factual development with was, “…instrumental in helping me get the job, not only in giving me the contact for the internship but giving me skills and knowledge I was able to put to use on the job.”
The course is so highly regarded by the Television industry that many of the graduates gain paid work before they’ve even finished the course.
Zora Kuettner secured a prestigious place on the BBC's new Central Development Team, just half way through the course.
Claudia Hodes hadn’t previously worked in factual television but within a few months of starting the course she was given work at the acclaimed production company Oxford Film & Television, in London, and was selected for the prestigious Channel 4 Production Training Scheme.
To find out more about this course click here.
4 x £5,000 Discovery Scholarships are available to students on this course
APPLY by November 2nd, 2015.
Pictured is Reetu Rupal on location for October Films
