Kate Is Sad, made by students from the Northern Film School, picked up two prizes at the RTS Yorkshire Student Television Awards, which were held for the first time at York St John University in early March.
Elliot Foster, Annie Foulkes and Andrei Stanescu won the Entertainment and Comedy Drama award, with Foulkes also recognised in the Craft Skills: Writing category. The judges praised Kate Is Sad for its “great script and cracking performances”.
Northern Film School students also took home the Drama award with Worry-Fear-Unease. The Triptych, which the judges called “cinematic, with great art direction, strong performances and an ambitious story structure”.
RTS Yorkshire Chair Michael Donnelly said: “Celebrating the next generation of film-makers is some of the most exciting and important work of the RTS. The pieces this year have shown exemplary skill and proficiency; the judges have been blown away.”
RTS Yorkshire Student Television Awards winners
Animation - The Princess and the Dragon - Annie Nicholson and Daniel Simms, Leeds Arts University
Drama - Worry-Fear-Unease. The Triptych - Cameron Haggie, Agrippina Mescherakova and Callum Auckland, Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University
Entertainment and Comedy Drama - Kate Is Sad - Elliot Foster, Annie Foulkes and Andrei Stanescu, Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University
Factual - Beyond Borders: Mo’s Story - Oliver Burke, Searus Aynsley and Max Clibbon, Sheffield Hallam University
Journalism - Women Who Weightlift: Raising the Bar for Gender Equality - Evie Samman, University of Leeds
Craft Skills: Cinematograhy
Shark Mindset - Christopher Scattergood, Sheffield Hallam University
Strangers - Elian Beaumont, Leeds Trinity University
Three To Hide - Tom Morrison, University of York
Craft Skills: Editing
The Final Cut - Austin Jones, University of York
The Impossibility of Happiness - Beth Cameron, York St John University
Craft Skills: Production Design
The Collector - Timm Cleasby, Sheffield Hallam University
Inked In - Marta Bjork Atladottir, Leeds Arts University
Sandwich Suspicions - Antonia Walsh, Sheffield Hallam University
Sherst - Louis Veevers, Sheffield Hallam University
Voyage - Hope Hewart and Vivienne Percival, Leeds Arts University
Craft Skills: Writing
Kate Is Sad - Annie Foulkes, Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University
Planets Aligned - Liv Berry, Sheffield Hallam University
