“This year has proved how important this industry is – I know for a fact that if I hadn’t had my TV in my house during lockdown, I would have been climbing the walls,” said the winner of Drag Race’s first UK series.

Looking at the “amazing young, fresh talent” brought together for the online ceremony by Zoom, The Vivienne added: “Knowing that the future of TV is in your hands really puts me at ease.”

Middlesex University took two of the main awards. Yard Kings by Billy King and Vasco Alexandre won the Scripted award, while Timea Moshaver and Anand Tiwari’s One Day You Will Hear My Voice scooped the Non-scripted prize.

University of Westminster student Aisha Boudjillouli’s film It’s Okay took the Animation prize and the Short Form award went to a team of film-makers from London South Bank University, Ben Watson, Jem Horstead, Aeneas Macdonald and Sam Cousins, for Introspection. Watson also won the Craft Skills: Editing award.

The juries were impressed with the standard of the entries, praising their originality and commitment to storytelling.

“It was great to see so many entries, and so many universities and colleges taking part, despite these testing times. We hope our online extravaganza hosted by The Vivienne was the next best thing to being able to award the winners in person,” said RTS London Chair Phil Barnes.

Observational documentary film-maker Vanessa Stockley offered advice to the student nominees at the ceremony: “Always stay open-minded – the stories you think you will film never quite work out as expected and are often far more interesting than you could ever have anticipated.”

She added: “Stay curious – you’ll always be learning.”

The RTS London Student Television Awards were held on 10 March, produced by Ginny Bing and Terry Marsh, and directed by Phil Barnes.

RTS London Student Television Awards winners

Animation

It's Okay

Aisha Boudjillouli, University of Westminster

 

Non-scripted

One Day You Will Hear My Voice

Timea Moshaver and Anand Tiwari , Middlesex University

 

Short Form

Introspection

Ben Watson, Jem Horstead, Aeneas Macdonald and Sam Cousins

London South Bank University
 

Scripted

Yard Kings

Billy King and Vasco Alexandre 

Middlesex University
 

Craft Skills: Camerawork

Above Everything 

Niall Langlands 

LCC, University of the Arts

 

Craft Skills: Editing 

Introspection

Ben Watson, London South Bank University

 

Craft Skills: Production Design

Know Your Sh.. 

Olga Rokosz, Kingston University

 

Craft Skills: Sound

Down There the Seafolk Live

Stan Greengrass, Goldsmiths, University of London

 

Craft Skills: Writing

48 Cuckoo Lane

James Sinton, University of Westminster