The 2022 RTS Student Masterclasses have been postponed to Thursday 26 January 2023.
RTS masterclasses offer insights into the inner workings of the television industry, including drama, journalism, entertainment and documentaries.
Schedule:
10.00am Registration Opens
10.55am Welcome
11am Drama
11.50am Comfort Break
12.05pm Journalism
12.55pm Lunch
1.45pm Entertainment
2.35pm Comfort Break
2.50pm Documentary
4.00 - 5pm Drinks Reception
Speakers:
Nima Elbagir is CNN's multi-award winning Chief International Investigative Correspondent. She joined CNN in 2011 as a Johannesburg-based correspondent before moving to the network's Nairobi bureau and later London, where she is currently based.
Elbagir was named the 2020 Royal Television Society 'Television Journalist of the Year' and received the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in the Investigative category for her reporting on human rights abuses, with the jurors citing her "fearless reporting across Africa, from a modern day slave market in Libya, to child labor in Congo, and a smuggler's network in Nigeria, documented rarely seen exploitation and corruption."
Tanya Stephan is a BAFTA and multi-award winning documentary director and series director.
Her films address major current affairs stories and challenging social issues though people's personal stories. Cinematic and intimate, her films have been described as beautifully crafted, sensitively handled and bold.
In 2022 she won the BAFTA Specialist Factual Award, and the Royal Television Society TV Journalism Award for Best International Current Affairs Documentary for her feature-length documentary The Missing Children.
With 20 years’ experience in the industry, Sohail specialises in factual entertainment, factual and popular culture programming; and has credits on all 5 UK terrestrial channels and numerous digital channels worldwide.
Alongside commissioning & production, Sohail has been a successful Head of Development, heading up development departments for BBC Studios, ITV Studios, STV Productions and October Films amongst others. Since 2018, Sohail has also been a Non-Exec Director for Elstree Film and TV Studios, helping the world-famous studio to expand; culminating in the launch of the brand new ‘Platinum Stages’ in 2022.
He has also served as part of the Edinburgh Film and Television Festival Advisory Board several times, as well as being a committee member for the ‘Ones To Watch’ and ‘The Network’ Talent Schemes which take place during the annual media event.
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Visit our Masterclasses page to watch sessions from previous years. For more information and group bookings of more than 10 students, please contact Jemima Debenham.
