NEXT GENERATION OF TALENT CELEBRATED WITH RTS STUDENT AWARDS

 

Just over 100 guests attended the Royal Television Society West of England Student Awards on Wednesday 8th February at The Everyman Cinema in Bristol to celebrate the best student talent in the region. The awards are for student television work that shows outstanding visual and aural creativity, a mastery of craft skills, innovation, initiative and story-telling. The University of the West of England triumphed on the evening, winning all the programme categories (Animation, Drama and Factual). The winning films in each category are then put forward for RTS national judging in March of this year.

 

A packed and buzzing audience of students enjoyed a keynote speech from TV presenter and local girl Naomi Wilkinson, who passed on advice on how to break into the TV industry. In an inspirational and fun address, Naomi showed the audience some of her favourite and most scary moments from CBBC’s Naomi’s Nightmares of Nature. 

 

Nick Maddocks from Testimony Films and Zoe Brandon, RDF West Talent Manager, both judges for the awards, handed out the first award of the evening, the Factual award, to Christy Tattershall, Matt Pidala, Alex Handschuh, Edd Roberts, James Royall, at UWE

for ‘The Wall’. The judges noted that ‘the contributors were very strong and the interviews honest, the team had secured great access and it was professionally put together”.  Craft awards were also handed over to The Wall for Editing and Sound. Plus, for a film that heightened awareness of refugees in Calais and for some stunning shots, with compelling and confident film making, there was a craft award for Camerawork for Beauty of a Stateless Mind, to Lutia Swann-Hutton, Tess O’Shea and Sam Mulvey from UWE.

 

Steve Harding-Hill from Aardman, one of the judges presented the Drama award to ‘an ambitious and mature film’, ‘One Sleepless Night’ by Johnny Lennox, Harvey Quirke, Owen Hemming-Brown and Jack Hayter from UWE. Plus in craft, to Jack Hayter for camerawork in this film and to Aleah Johnson from Gloucestershire College for her camerawork in ‘Brothers’.

 

The Animation award was presented by Duncan Fraser of A Productions, another judge. The winner was the very slick ‘Heist’ by Edward Leicester from UWE, with Oliver Roberts awarded for Sound and Music in this animation. Plus, Chris Reed for Sound in the Animation ‘Fall.’

 

Student guests then enjoyed drinks, nibbles and networking with industry execs from the RTS Bristol Committee and the student award judges.

 

RTS WEST OF ENGLAND STUDENT AWARDS 2017

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE NOMINEES AND WINNERS!

 

DRAMA

 

Brothers, Molly Boughen, Aleah Johnson, Annie Atkins and Beth Leaver, Gloucestershire College

One Sleepless Night, Johnny Lennox, Harvey Quirke, Owen Hemming-Brown and Jack Hayter, UWE -WINNER

At Dawn, Phil Stubbs, Lucy Keal, Aimee Lewis and Alice Hughes, Gloucestershire College

 

Craft Awards

Aleah Johnson, Camerawork, Brothers

 

Jack Hayter, Camerawork, One Sleepless Night

 

ANIMATION 

 

Fall, Ollie Magee, UWE

Heist, Edward Leicester, UWE - WINNER

On, Holly James, UWE

The Race, Jodie Haslam, UWE

 

Craft Awards: 

Oliver Roberts, Sound & Music for Heist

Chris Reed, Sound for Fall

 

FACTUAL

 

Beauty of a Stateless Mind, Lutia Swann-Hutton, Harvey Quirke, Lydia Johnson and Tessa O’Shea, UWE

There’s Nothing Selfish about Suicide, Aria Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Don’t Go Nimo, Lydia Johnson, Jess Dalgic and Georgiana Clark, UWE

The Wall,  Christy Tattershall, Matt Pidala, Alex Handschuh, Edd Roberts, James Royall, UWE - WINNER

 

Craft Awards

Christy Tattershall and Matt Pidala, Editing for The Wall

Edd Roberts and James Royall, Sound for The Wall

Lutia Swann-Hutton, Tess O’Shea and Sam Mulvey, Camerawork, for Beauty of a Stateless Mind 

 

COMEDY AND ENTERTAINMENT

Commended: Marooned, University of Gloucestershire, Matt Carroll

 

Judges:

Nick Maddocks, Testimony Films

Zoe Brandon, Talent Manager, RDF West

Duncan Fraser, A Productions

Steve Harding-Hill, Creative Director Commercials and Partner Content, Aardman

Rupert Troskie, Editor

Sarah Peat, Executive Producer, Tigress Productions

Linn Waite, Producer, Early Day Films

Jon Older, 1st AD