The RTS Student Television Awards celebrates the best audiovisual work created by students across the UK at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
For 2021, the Awards will be a short form content competition, in which students are able to submit an original film of their creation of up to 10 minutes in duration.
Watch the RTS Student Television Awards 2020, sponsored by Motion Content Group.
See the full list of winners here or click here to download the Awards Programme.
The virtual event was hosted by comedian and presenter Matt Richardson.
The awards celebrate students across six categories for the best audiovisual work created at both undergraduate and postgraduate level including Animation, Comedy & Entertainment, Drama, Factual, News and Short Form. To reward excellence in craft skills, awards were also presented in the following categories at the judges’ discretion: Camerawork, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Writing.
Across six categories, 23 institutions’ students have received nominations, having qualified by winning at their respective regional RTS Student Awards earlier this year.
Now in its 25th year, the awards ceremony will be livestreamed on Friday 26 June at 2pm BST. Further details will be published on the RTS website in due course. The RTS Student Awards celebrates the best audiovisual work created by students with an Undergraduate and Postgraduate winner both awarded in each category across Animation, Comedy & Entertainment, Drama, Factual, News and Short Form.
Director Brendan McCallion and producer Frank O’Malley were both students at IADT/NFS Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, and their film was named Best Drama at the RTS Republic of Ireland Student Awards earlier this year.
The RTS Devon & Cornwall Student Awards were held at the Jill Craigie Cinema, University of Plymouth for the ceremony and was presented by Cornwall-born director Nigel Cole.
