The winners were announced in mid-May during a live stream – hosted by the Plymouth-based brothers and stars of E4’s Tattoo Fixers, Pash and Uzzi Canby – on the RTS YouTube channel.

Originally, the awards were due to be held at a ceremony at the University of Plymouth in March, but this was cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Falmouth University nabbed four of the five main awards. Harriet Owles, Lydia Branham, Benjamin Evans and Edward Grant received the Drama award for The Artisan, which “tugged at the judges’ heartstrings”. The judges were also “impressed with the attention to detail and quality of writing”.

The Comedy and Entertainment award went to Toby Matthews, Amy Lindley and Charles Power for Holiday, a nod to Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot films, which had “sharp visual gags – a fitting homage to a French master”.

Sophia Amatiello and Gabriella Jeary’s “powerfully effective and beautifully animated” film, Beware of the Dark, took the Animation award. Women Uprooted, by Dominique de Villiers, Fran Brotherton-Cottrell, Ellie Price, Grace Mosley and Andrea Stensholm Klæboe, was awarded the Factual prize for “wonderful use of high-quality imagery, and exceptional creativity and depth”.

Plymouth College of Art’s Marek Kawula and Matt Atkinson broke the Falmouth University monopoly, winning the Short Form award for Time is the Enemy, which boasted “professional production quality”.

Falmouth University students also won four of the five Craft Skills awards: Camera (Sui Generis); Editing and Sound (Sandstorm); and Production Design (Our Harmony). The Writing award went to Plymouth College of Art’s Lucie Eckersley for Nut Pops.

“Now, more than ever, it’s essential that we continue to recognise the achievements around us,” said RTS Devon and Cornwall Chair Rick Horne. “All those that made the shortlist of nominees should be extremely proud of their work – we may be in lockdown, but our talent certainly is not.”

Two Four and White Room Productions sponsored the awards.

RTS Devon and Cornwall Student Television Awards – the winners

Animation
Beware of the Dark
Sophia Amatiello and Gabriella Jeary, Falmouth University

 

Comedy and Entertainment
Holiday
Toby Matthews, Amy Lindley and Charles Power, Falmouth University

 

Drama
The Artisan
Harriet Owles, Lydia Branham, Benjamin Evans and Edward Grant, Falmouth University

 

Factual
Women Uprooted
Dominique de Villiers, Fran Brotherton-Cottrell, Ellie Price, Grace Mosley and Andrea Stensholm Klæboe, Falmouth University

 

Short Form
Time is the Enemy
Marek Kawula and Matt Atkinson, Plymouth College of Art

 

Craft Skills – Camera

Sui Generis

Ollie Thurley, Falmouth University

 

Craft Skills – Editing

Sandstorm

Mitchell Kendall Smith, Falmouth University

 

Craft Skills – Production Design

Our Harmony

Oliver Thom, Falmouth University

 

Craft Skills – Sound

Sandstorm

Gabriel Stone and Benjamin T Jackson, Falmouth University

 

Craft Skills – Writing

Nut Pops

Lucie Eckersley, Plymouth College of Art