A record number of at least 88 NFTS graduates are credited with key roles in 34 features and short films at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. These include the Opening Gala European Premiere of ‘Captain Phillips’ starring Tom Hanks (pictured above), two other Gala films, plus one in Competition for Best Film and another in the First Feature competition.
Roles range from Directors such as Clio Bernard whose film ‘The Selfish Giant’ is in Competition for Best Film; ‘Captain Phillips’ Production designer Paul Kirby, ‘Gravity’ Digital Compositor Giacomo Matteucci; ‘The Invisible Woman’ Assistant Art Director Marco Anton Restivo; Valerio Bonelli, Editor of the film ‘Philomena’ Directed by NFTS Visiting Fellow Stephen Frears; ‘Under The Skin’ Dialogue Editor Jussi Honka as well as Writer, Director and Producer Anthony Chen whose Cannes 2013 Camera d’Or prize winning film ‘Ilo Ilo’ includes many other grads in its credits.
And the NFTS is proud to note that two thirds (28 out of the 34) of the films involving NFTS graduates were made in the UK.
This amazing achievement comes in a year when LFF organisers have been heralding the strength of the British film industry, and ‘Captain Philips’ Director Paul Greengrass said: “We are attracting the best talent in the world to come and make films in this country.”
Also premiering in the Festival's Documentary section is, 'The Do Gooders' directed by Chloe Ruthven, (a Roast Beef Production). This is the first film / feature doc to come through the NFTS Film Clinic, a completion fund for emerging documentary makers, sponsored by YouTube. This acutely personal documentary looks at the complex political issue of Western aid programmes in Palestine.
The films with NFTS Graduate involvement in key roles are as follows.
19 Feature films:
Blackwood Dialogue Editor Adele Fletcher;
Captain Phillips Production Designer Paul Kirby; Junior Draughtsman Thomas Goodwin; 2nd Unit DoP Niels Reedtz Johansen; Supervising ADR Editor Simon Chase; Assistant Sound Editor Jason Price; Digital Compositor Kia Coates; 1st Assistant Editor Tom Harrison-Read
The Double Associate Producer Polly Stokes; Co-Editor Nick Fenton
Exhibition Writer/Director Joanna Hogg; Producer Gayle Griffiths; Editor Helle Le Fevre; Production Designer Stephane Collonge; Art Director Pedro Moura; Sound Mixer Howard Peryer; Boom Operator Kyle Pickford
Gone Too Far Associate Producer Rob Watson; DoP Stil Williams; Editor Anna Dick; Production Designer Laura Tarrant-Brown; Sound Mixer Ronald Bailey; Boom Operator Jennifer Annor; Production Assistant Lawrence Mason
Gravity Digital Compositor Giacomo Matteucci; Junior Draughtsman Thomas Goodwin; 3D Previs Stereo Advisor Melissa Byers
Half of a Yellow Sun Assistant Art Director Luke Hull; Boom Operator Tawa K Durowoju; Assistant Production Coordinator Hussain Ahmed
Ilo Ilo Writer/Director/Producer Anthony Chen; DoP Benoit Soler; Editor Hoping Chen; Sound Designer/Sound Editor/Dubbing Mixer Zhe Wu
The Invisible Woman Assistant Art Director Marco Anton Restivo; Stand-By Art Director Huw Arthur; Foley Editor Rob Prynne; Sound Assistant Michael Lee Taylor
Beat Writer/Director Aneil Karia; DoP Stuart Bentley; Sound Designer Gunnar Oskarsson; Sound Recordist Xan Márquez Caneda
Late at Night Voices of Ordinary Madness [Doc] Director/DoP/Producer Xiaolu Guo; Producer/Editor/Sound/Composer Philippe Ciompi
Leave to Remain DoP Felix Wiedemann
Philomena Editor Valerio Bonelli; Sound Assistant Michael Lee Taylor
Pioneer Director/Co-Writer Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Saving Mr Banks Art Director Will Field; Sx-Tape Director Bernard Rose; Rerecording Mixer Adrian Rhodes
The Selfish Giant Writer/Director Clio Barnard; Editor Nick Fenton; Rerecording Mixer Martin Jensen; Development Editor Jamie Wolpert
Under The Skin Dialogue Editor Jussi Honka; 3D Camera Tracker Sarah Byers; 3D Artist Samuel Walsh; Digital Compositors Nicholas Zissimos, Victor Tomi& Jorge Canada Escorihuela
The Do Gooders [Doc] Executive Producer Lara Agnew; Sound Editor Peter Warnock; Colourist and Online Editor Roni Rodrigues
15 Short films:
Auschwitz on My Mind Co-Producer Jonny Persey
Close DoP Nick Cooke; Editor Fiona DeSouza; Composer Matt Kelly
Drone Designer Kristian Milsted
The Field Sound Editor Adele Fletcher
Going Under Executive Producers Emily Morgan& Megan Stuart Wallace; DoP Charlie Goodger
Jasmine’s Revolution Sound Designer Nikola Zivojinovic
Keeping Up with the Joneses Director Michael Pearce; Producer Megan Stuart-Wallace; Composer Stuart Earl
Minimus DoP Stuart Bentley
Orbit Ever After Writer/Director Jamie Stone; Producer Len Rowles; DoP Robin Whenary; Production Designer Abigail Joshi; Composer Graham Hadfield; Sound Recordist Caroline Singh
Our Lad Editor Miikka Leskinen
Sea View DoP Tom Townend; Supervising Sound Editor Paul Davies
Sidney DoP Bjørn Ståle Bratberg
Something for Nothing Producer Zorana Piggott
Things He Never Said DoP Andrew Alderslade
Twinkle, Twinkle DoP David Liddell; Editor Fiona DeSouza
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