Two student graduation films have been nominated for a 2012 British Independent Film Award. Writer/Director Jamie Stone and Mahalia Belo’s 2012 graduation films Skyborn and Volume are competing for the Best British Short award against a fellow graduate, the respected Writer/Director Lynne Ramsay, whose film The Swimmer also includes graduate Natasha Braier as DoP.
They are among the 48 graduates involved in an incredible total of 16 films that have been nominated in nine categories this year. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on December 9.
The full list of nominations involving NFTS graduates includes:
Best Documentary: Carol Morley’s Dreams of a Life (Co-DoP Mary Farbrother; Supervising Sound Editor Christopher Wilson; Sound Recordist Matthew Share); The Imposter (Sound Designer Paul Davies), Kevin MacDonald’s Marley (Co-DoP Alwin Küchler); Julien Temple’s London: The Modern Babylon. The Imposter is also on the list of nominees for the Best British Independent Film where it shares a place with Berberian Sound Studio (Rerecording Mixer Markus Moll), Broken (Assistant Coordinator Hussain Ahmed) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Sound Assistant Michael Taylor) and all of these films have been nominated in the Best Director category. Two of these films - The Imposter and Berberian Sound Studio - are also in the running for the Best Achievement in Production award where they compete with the Vertigo Films production The Sweeney which was produced by Allan Niblo and had Nuala O’Leary also on the crew as Production Supervisor. The contenders for Best International Independent Film includes the Danish film The Hunt (Jagten) which was shot by Charlotte Bruus Christensen; and the Raindance Award nominees include four films with alumni involvement… Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (Editor Gideon Gold; Supervising Sound Designer Dario Swade; Colourist Andre Rusu), Frank (Composer Stuart Earl), Love Tomorrow (Boom Operator Francis Cullen) and City Slacker (Boom Operator Xan Márquez Caneda); My Brother the Devil, which was produced by Gayle Griffiths and has a UK release this week, has received nominations for Best Debut Director (Sally el Hosaini) and Most Promising Newcomer (lead actor James Floyd); the winners will be presented at a ceremony at the Old Billingsgate in London on the 9th December.
Credits for the NFTS films Skyborn and Volume are:
SkyBorn
Writer/Director Jamie Stone; Producer Len Rowles; DoP Robin Whenary; Production Designer John Merry; Production Manager Esteban Frost; Editor James Taylor; Composer Graham Hadfield; Sound Recordist Mick Kearney; SFX and Miniature Supervisor Cat Harris; VFX Supervisor/Online Editor/Grade Helen Brownell; Boom Operator Sherylee Anne Houssein; Sound Designer Jens Rosenlund Petersen; Miniatures Set Designer Bianca Ansems;
Volume
Director/Story Mahalia Belo; Story/Writer Ingeborg Topsøe; Producer Casey Herbert; DoP Chloë Thomson; Composer Jonathan Hill; Designer Laura Tarrant-Brown; Production Manager Darren Crisp; Editor Arttu Salmi; SFX Supervisor David Jacobs; Location Sound Mixer Nina Rice; Boom Operators Liam Cotter & Mick Kearney; Sound Designer Axle Kith Cheeng; Online Editor/Grade Robin Blick.