(Mahalia picking up her BAFTA! Credit: BAFTA)
We are extremely proud of our Directing Fiction MA graduate Mahalia Belo who has won the Breakthrough Talent award at this year’s BAFTA Television Craft Awards for her work on the critically acclaimed Channel 4 single drama Ellen, starring Jessie Barden. Ellen credits a number of NFTS graduates including DoP, Chloe Thomson; Editor Carmela Iandoli; Composer, Jonathan Hill; Production Designer, Laura Ellis Cricks (formerly Tarrant-Brown) and Art Director Thalia Ecclestone.
(Still from Ellen)
Mahalia graduated from the NFTS in 2012 and her graduation film, Volume premiered at Sundance and won the British Independent Film Award for Best Short Film. She was subsequently featured on the cover of Screen’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ issue and is currently in pre-production on original psychological horror Requiem’, directing all six episodes for BBC 1.
Other productions receiving accolades at the Television Craft BAFTAs, which credit NFTS graduates include: The Night Manager, which received the BAFTA for Best Sound: Fiction (NFTS Sound Recording graduate, Juan Montoto Ugarte; Sound Assistant), and The Crown, which picked up the BAFTA for Special, Visual and Graphic Effects and had NFTS graduates, Victor Tomi on the crew as a Compositor and Jorge Canada Escorihuela as an Additional VFX Supervisor.
Meanwhile, the nominations for the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards have been announced and over 30 NFTS graduates are credited! This year’s ceremony will be held at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 May. Credits are as follows:
Best Drama Series
The Crown: Script Editor, Edward Hemming; Editor, Una Ni Dhonghaile; Digital Compositor, Victor Tomi; Sound FX Editor, Alex Ellerington; Additional VFX Supervisor, Jorge Canada Escorihuela; Rerecording Mixers, Stuart Hilliker & Martin Jensen; Additional Music Composer, Evan Jolly
The Durrells: Additional Music, Jon Wygens
War and Peace: Composer, Martin Phipps; Rerecording Mixer, Stuart Hilliker; Boom Operator, Vytautas Kizala; Sound FX Editor, Alex Ellerington; Matchmove Artist, Sarah Byers
Best Factual Series
24 Hours in Police Custody: Assistant Editors, Manuela Lupini and Pawel Slawek
Exodus: Our Journey to Europe: Editors, Simon Sykes; Nick Fenton and Sunshine Jackson
Best Mini-Series
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses: Art Department Assistant, Jamie Burrows
National Treasure: Supervising Sound Editor, Paul Davies; Post-Production Co-ordinator, Katherine Pearl
Witness for the Prosecution: DoP Felix Wiedemann
Best Reality & Constructed Factual
First Dates (Series 7): Composer, Miguel d’Oliveira
The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds: Director, Jackie Waldock
Best Scripted Comedy
Fleabag: Graphic Designer, Clare Winkworth; Sound Maintenance, Howard Peryer
Best Single Drama
Aberfan: The Green Hollow: Sound Effects Editor, Vicente Villaescusa
Murdered by My Father: DoP, Felix Wiedemann
NW: Sound Effects Editor, Matis Rei
Best Soap & Continuing Drama
Casualty: Director, Matthew Evans; Writer, Laura Poliakoff
Eastenders: Writer, Laura Poliakoff
Emmerdale: Director, Diana Patrick
And finally, an impressive 33 NFTS students and graduates have been selected for the BAFTA Crew programme, which connects emerging talent with writers, directors and producers, providing a rare opportunity for peer to peer networking and development across all key roles within production – they include:
Abigail Dankwa, Director
Alexandra Harwood, Composer
Andrea Cuadrado, Editing
Andrew Alderslade, Camera
Andrew Oldbury, Producer
Ani Laurie, Director
Anushka Naanayakkara, Director
Bojan Brbora, Camera
Caroline Bridges, Camera
Chiara Ventura, Producer
Elena Ruscombe-King, Writer
Emily Morgan, Producer
Eva Weber, Director
Fawzia Mahmood, Producer
Fiona Brands, Editing
Frances Poletti, Writer
Hannah Cole, Producer
Ian Forbes, Camera
Ina Remme, Producer
Jac Clinch, Director
Katherine Pearl, Production Management
Louis Dodd, Composer
Maddie Quarm, Sound (Production)
Manuela Lupini, Editing
Mike Forshaw, Director
Nosa Eke, Director
Pawel Slawek, Editing
Samantha Rhodes, Editing
Simona Susnea, Camera
Sophie Halton, Production Management
Thomas Blazukas, Sound (Post Production)
Tim Morrish, Composer
Vera Simmonds, Editing
