The winners will be crowned at an awards ceremony held on Friday 21^st June at the IET, Savoy Place, hosted by rapper, author and broadcaster Guvna B. 

Across the 24 competitive categories, which honour the best audiovisual work produced by undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK, 25 institutions were nominated. This year, the National Film and Television School led the way with 10 nominations across postgraduate categories followed by the University of the West of England who received four nominations for projects Cowboys vs Prairie Dogs, Singularity, Doggerland, and Grasping The Nettle.

For 2024, the categories for Factual content have been updated and separated to Factual Short Form and Factual Long Form. Projects nominated in the undergraduate Factual Short Form category include Beyond Borders from Sheffield Hallam University, Dragons from Bath Spa University, and Strongwoman from University of Stirling. The new Factual Long Form category saw three nominations for postgraduate projects all from the National Film and Television School. Furthermore, the Environment and Sustainability category has been renamed Saving The Planet and has shortlisted three undergraduate projects and three postgraduate projects from Aberystwyth University, UWE, Bristol, University of Cumbria, University of the West of England and the National Film & Television School, respectively.

Sinéad Rocks, Managing Director, Nations and Regions at Channel 4 and Chair of the RTS Student Television Awards, said: “It feels like every year, we are taken aback by the standard of work submitted to the RTS student awards - and this year is no exception. The new categories have opened up the awards to even more incredible projects from across the UK, demonstrating that the future of television production is looking very bright indeed. I look forward to celebrating this excellence alongside some of the key figures in our industry at this year’s awards ceremony in June.”

The RTS Student Television awards are designed to highlight the talent, potential and enthusiasm of students across the UK, celebrating the exemplary audiovisual work they create.

Please see below the full list of nominations:  

Undergraduate Animation

·       Doggerland - Michael Blake & Martin To (University of the West of England)

·       Sketchbook - James Watt, Nyah Deamer, Marta Smielewski & Steven Watt (Manchester Metropolitan University)

·       The Curse of Dracular - Jack Paterson (Norwich University of the Arts)

Undergraduate Drama

·       Care - Jagoda Tlok, Jess Kelly, Euan Farmer, Juno Glover & Team (Screen Academy Scotland (Edinburgh Napier University))

·       Night Light - Oscar Bell, Thomas Ellison & Madeleine Reddy (Staffordshire University)

·       Skive - Corinna Elleschild, Ellis Cate, Louis Barron-Forde, Charlie Guy-Jones & Team (UWE Bristol)

Undergraduate Entertainment and Comedy Drama

·       Lulu's Zoo - Sarah Baker (University of Salford)

·       The Other Half - Alina Ilin & Benjamin Bogdan-Hodgson (Middlesex University)

·       Worst Thing - Jayme Bartlett, Bobby Donaldson, Hayley Louise McGuire, Petra Crace & Team (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

Undergraduate Factual – Long Form

·       Simme Tutt’uno - Alice Franchi, Yasmin Boxall, Freddie Logan & Alice Sacco (University of Westminster)

·       Thank you, Final Fantasy VII - Mark Stiles (University of Sunderland)

·       Walking the Labyrinth - Jessica Doherty, Conor Farrelly, Megan Hughes, Kim Stewart & Team (Dundalk Institute of Technology)

Undergraduate Factual – Short Form

·       Beyond Borders: Mo's Story - Oliver Burke, Searus Aynsley & Max Clibbon (Sheffield Hallam University)

·       Dragons - Tyrese Shipp, Sophie Taylor, Harry Orr & Alex Chiles (Bath Spa University)

·       Strongwoman - Kyla Miller, Ewan Patrick, Jodie McMail, Katrina McEwan & Remi Peron (University of Stirling)

Undergraduate Journalism

·       ANGLE NEWS Final Newsday - Kaleigh Pritchard, Aoife Harkin, Meg Griffiths, Isaac Lewis & Team (University of Gloucestershire)

·       Bruised - Carla Basu, Lauren Fitzpatrick & Adam Millar (University of the West of Scotland)

·       I'LL JUST HAVE CATS - Kay Proctor & Team (University of Gloucestershire)

Undergraduate Saving the Planet

·       Fibres - The Roots of Industrial Hemp - Matthew Tyler-Howells, Vic Kolbe & Emily Hogg (Aberystwyth University)

·       Forgotten Fibre - Tristan Patrick Sherfield, Alex Stevenson, Maurice A Wren, Robert Loud & Team (UWE, Bristol)

·       Tails of Cumbrian Heritage - Georgia Costin & Abbey Wilkinson (University of Cumbria)

Postgraduate Animation

·       Crab Day - Ross Stringer, Aleksandra Sykulak, Bartosz Stanislawek & Donya Maguire (National Film and Television School)

·       Mum’s Spaghetti - Lisa Kenney, Emma Grazette, Martina Buendia Silva, Jack Maraghy & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       Singularity - Conor Mullin, Alexander Leeming Froudakis, Joe Flowers, Pip Denning & Team (University of the West of England)

Postgraduate Drama

·       Jellyfish and Lobster - Elizabeth Rufai, Yasmin Afifi, Linda Wu, Max Reynolds & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       Killing Boris Johnson - Musa Alderson-Clarke, Solomon Golding & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       MaoMao - Siqin Qu, Yifei Yue, Xianglong Zhang & Shengshuo Hou (University of York)

Postgraduate Entertainment and Comedy Drama

·       7 Day Expert - Julia Waller, Hannah Dodge & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       Tastes of the Past - Shu Wang, Anastasia Adruzova, Marcin Mazurek & Fleur Capocci (National Film and Television School)

·       Why Don't You Stay For Tonight - Guilherme Pires, Yegor Chmilewsky, El Hakim,  Gundham Onorati (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus)

Postgraduate Factual – Long Form

·       Cadáver - Benjamin Kodboel, Frederik Ribergaard, Itzel Gonzalez Estrada, Jack McCartney & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       Lettre à Elie (Letter to Elie) - Alexis Grigorieff, Louise Bernard Pallas, Harry Foster, Ciara McKenna & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       With Woman - Mia Harvey, Yu-Pu Pon, Luke Barnfather, Diana Duah & Team (National Film and Television School)

Postgraduate Factual – Short Form

·       Death at Sea - Sara Pipernos, Mikey Sneddon & Nyal Mueenuddin (UWE-Bristol)

·       My Dad and the Volcano - Gavin Reid & Brendan Swift (The University of the West of Scotland)

·       My Mum Rita - Qiqi Hou (London College of Communication (University of the Arts London)

Postgraduate Journalism

·       Charlton Upbeats Football Fundraiser - Lili Sheppard & Shivansh Gupta (City, University of London)

·       Ukranian cafe - Lili Sheppard & Tiffany Muthee (City, University of London)

·       Under The Sky - The Homeless of Calcutta - Rini Ghosh (Nottingham Trent University)

Postgraduate Saving The Planet

·       Cowboys vs Prairie Dogs - Alexander Crisp (University of West England)

·       Forgotten Forests - Robyn Dean, Lauren Wynter, Siim Skepast, Jack McCartney & Team (National Film and Television School)

·       Grasping the Nettle - Mairi Eyres, Leo Alexander, Mikey Sneddon, Ningjing Wang & Team (University of the West of England)

 

The Craft Skills categories for Camerawork, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Writing will be announced during the ceremony.