This year’s BFI London Film Festival kicks off on the 5th of October and will be showing no fewer than 28 feature films which our grads and students have worked on. There are also two NFTS masterclasses available for students to sign up to as part of the LFF film school programme. These are Film Programming: Brave New Worlds on the 13th October and Case Study of a New British Film on the 14th October.
Films on show include the highly anticipated Lady Macbeth, American Honey and A Moving Image, which includes credits from no fewer than seven NFTS students and graduates (Writer/Director, Shola Amoo; Producer, Rinkje Attoh, Supervising Sound Editor, Nikola Medic; Colourist, Sara Buxton; Associate Producer, Fawzia Mahmood (current student); Composer, Segun Akinola (current student) and Editor, Mdhamiri Á Nkemi (current student).
A Moving Image director, Shola Amoo says:
"After having our world premiere in competition at the 2016 LA Film Festival and touring the film around the States, it's exciting to finally bring it home for our European premiere at the London Film Festival. This is a film that explores gentrification, which I perceive to be one of the most pertinent issues of our time. Whether it's in London, Berlin, New York or LA, there's a conversation that needs to be had and I'm looking forward to having it in my home city during the festival. My experience at NFTS was quite liberating in the sense that during the course I was allowed to follow any particular path I wanted with a degree of support and encouragement.”
The film’s producer, Rienkje Attoh says:
"We're so excited to be having our European premiere at the London Film Festival. I grew up in Brixton and Shola in Elephant and Castle and it was very important to us that we captured what has been taking place in our city. Gentrification is not only a London problem - it's worldwide and we need to start taking its effects seriously."
"Having a background in news always helped develop my sharp nose for a story and gentrification was definitely a 'big' story. My time at the NFTS was a creative playground where I learned a lot about my craft as a film producer. I formed close bonds with some very talented people and was able to create films ranging from fiction and documentary to animation utilising the school's state-of-the art facilities. While at the film school I also became one of three recipients of the inaugural Prince William Scholarship supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros."
NFTS short fiction, MIA, is also being screened at the festival. The short which is about Mia who gives birth to a baby girl who grows up at an unnaturally fast pace:(Writer/Director, Maria Martinez Bayona; Producer, Marie-Elena Dyche; DoP, Krzysztof Trojnar; Designer, Joelle Aoun; Production manager, Cat McNamara; Editor, Joseph Comar; Sound Mixer, Pan Papagiannopoulos; Boom Operator, Tim Parris; Composer, Marina Elderton; VFX Supervisor, Saruta Puff Pisanwalerd; Sound Editor/Rerecording Mixer, Eleanor Nicholls; and Online Editor/Grade, Carl Thompson.)
Full list of features with NFTS credits:
American Honey; Foley Editor, Dario Swade
Apprentice: DoP, Benoit Soler; Sound Effects Editor, Maiken Hansen; Supervising Sound Editor, Ting Li Lim; Co-Composer Matt Kelly
Aquarius: Editor, Eduardo Serrano
The Autopsy of Jane Doe: DoP, Roman Osin; Junior Draughtsman, Jacqueline Blundell; Additional Photography, Vanessa Whyte
City of Tiny Lights: DoP, Felix Wiedemann
Ethel & Ernest [Anim]: Editor, Richard Overall; Assistant Sound Editor/Foley Editor, Peter Warnock
Lady Macbeth: Producer, Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly; Associate Producer, Pete Smyth; Art Director, Thalia Ecclestone; Production Coordinator, Daphnée Hocquard; Boom Operator, Jodie Campbell
Lake Bodom: Line Producer, Elina Litvinova
Letters from Baghdad [Doc]: Cinematography, Gary Clarke
The Levelling: DoP, Nanu Segal; Camera Operator, Sarah Bartles-Smith; Boom Operator, Joanna Andrews; Musician Chris White
London Town: Production Designer, Laura Ellis-Cricks; Art Director, Thalia Ecclestone
Mindhorn: DoP, David Luther; Assistant Art Director, Jacqueline Blundell; Sound Design Editor, Robert Malone; Sound Assistant/2nd Unit Recordist, Michael Sinden; Boom Operators, Caroline Singh, Howard Peryer & Thomas Markwick
A Monster Calls: VFX Artist, Cat Harris
A Moving Image: Writer/Director, Shola Amoo; Producer, Rinkje Attoh; Supervising Sound Editor, Nikola Medic; Colourist, Sara Buxton; Associate Producer, Fawzia Mahmood (current student); Composer, Segun Akinola (current student); Editor, Mdhamiri Á Nkemi (current student)
The Pass: Co-Producer, Kurban Kassam; Art Director, Paul Savulescu; Camera Operator, Nick Cooke; Digital Compositor/Colorist ,Sara Buxton; Production Coordinator, Catherine McNamara; Assistant Editors, Scott Clements & Jamie Kataky (current student)
Prevenge: Editor, Matteo Bini
Pyromanen (Pyromaniac): Director, Erik Skjoldbjaerg
A Quiet Passion: Writer/Director, Terence Davies
Rock Dog: Animator, Ben Sanders
The Secret Scripture: Supervising Sound Editor, Paul Davies
Spaceship: DoP, Liam Iandoli; Editor, Carmela Iandoli; Supervising Sound Editor, Maiken Hansen
Their Finest: Editor, Lucia Zucchetti; Associate Editor, Fiona DeSouza
Trespass Against Us: DoP, Eduard Grau
Una: Editor, Nick Fenton; Sound Mixer, Danny Hambrook
A United Kingdom: Creative Executive for Pathé Productions, Len Rowles; Digital Compositor, Graham Dorey
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey: CG Lead, James Brennan-Craddock; Compositor, Jorge Canada Escorihuela: R&D Samuel Walsh
We Are X: Sound Mixer, Robert Bourke
Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?: Development Executive for the BFI, Jamie Wolpert
Wild: Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor, Rainer Heesch
