The Chicken directed by NFTS graduate Una Gunjak has won Best European Short Film at the 2014 European Film Awards– Europe’s equivalent of the Oscars. Other NFTS credits on this film are: Producer Jelena Goldbach; DoP Matthias Pilz; Sound Mixer Raoul Brand; Digital Post-Production Giacomo Matteucci & Belgin Kaplan.
The Chicken is also one of 6 short films involving 22 NFTS students and graduates which have been selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2015 in the International Narrative Short Film category.
One of these films Out of Sight has been made by a team of current NFTS students:
Nick Rowland (Director/Writer/Producer); Joe Murtagh (Writer/ Story); David Pimm (DoP); Samantha Rhodes (Editor); Rob Turner (Sound Designer); Antonio Nardi (Composer); Will Davies (Sound Recordist) and Sara Buxton (VFX Supervisor/Online Editor).
The other short films with NFTS credits in this category are as follows:
Daytimer - Belgin Kaplan (Digital Intermediate Editor)
Saturday - Jessica Levick (Producer); Brian Fawcett (DoP); Sam Blair (Editor); Anna Lavelle (Production) Designer; Gunnar Oskarsson Sound Editor/Sound Mixer.
Abandoned Goods - Philippe Ciompi (Composer/Editor/Supervising Sound Editor/Rerecording Mixer).
Two Films About Loneliness - Simon Allmark (Editor)
There are also 10 other NFTS graduates involved in these 6 films:
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Slow West -Sound Mixers Richard Flynn & Ivor Talbot; Foley Editor Dario Swade.
Strangerland - Co-Writer Michael Kinirons
U.S. Documentary Competition
3 and a Half Minutes - Editors Gideon Gold & Emiliano Battista
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Dreamcatcher - Director Kim Longinotto; Sound Recordist Nina Rice
Dark Horse - DoP Benjamin Kracun
How to Change the World - Executive Producer Jonny Persey
