Projects with National Film and Television School alumni involvement have received nominations in several categories at this year’s Royal Television Society Programme Awards across a whole host of film and television making disciplines from production design to editing and composing! The NFTS has dedicated course open days coming up over the next few weeks catering for all these areas; sign up for your place here.
The awards ceremony takes place at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Tuesday 21st March and will be hosted by Sandi Toksvig.
All three of the nominated programmes in the ‘Best Mini-Series’ category – London Spy, National Treasure and Thirteen - feature NFTS graduate contributions:
British-American five-part drama television series, London Spy, created and written by Tom Rob Smith, credits NFTS Production Design graduates, Lisa Hall and Marc Anton Restivo as Production Designer and Art Director respectively.
National Treasure is a four-part 2016 British television drama by Channel 4, written by Jack Thorne and starring Robbie Coltrane. NFTS credits include Paul Davies, Supervising Sound Editor and Katherine Pearl, Post-Production Co-Ordinator.
Thirteen is a British drama television miniseries created and written by Marnie Dickens. NFTS credits include Simon Archer, DoP; Hazel Baillie, Editor; Alex Ellerington, FX Editor; Jon Opstad, Composer and Martin Jensen, Rerecording Mixer.
Competing for the ‘Best Documentary Series’ award are Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (Editors on this series include NFTS Editing MA graduates, Simon Sykes, Nick Fenton & Sunshine Jackson) and The Murder Detectives (Composer, Jon Opstad).
ITV series, The Durrells is nominated for ‘Best Drama Series’, which has Additional Music composed by Jon Wygens.
The BBC3 production, Murdered By My Father (DoP, NFTS Cinematography MA graduate, Felix Wiedemann) has been nominated for the ‘Best Single Drama’ award and the ‘Best Soap and continuing Drama’ category includes EastEnders (Writer, NFTS Screenwriting MA graduate, Laura Poliakoff) and Emmerdale (Director, NFTS Directing Fiction MA graduate, Diana Patrick).
The Channel 4 series The Secret Life of 4 & 5 Year Olds (Director, NFTS Directing Documentary graduate, Jackie Waldock) and First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon (Editor, David Hill) are both nominees for the ‘Best Science and Natural History’ award and another Channel 4 series, First Dates (Composer, Miguel d’Oliveira) is a contender for the ‘Best Popular Factual and Features’ award.
For more information on the NFTS open days, please visit https://nfts.co.uk/sign-me-up/open-days
