The NFTS is proud to announce that its graduates have been honoured at the recent Royal Television Society Awards and the Women In Film and Television Awards.
NFTS graduate Production Designer Dennis De Groot was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards in honour of a career that has covered 36 years. The RTS Awards are the gold standard of achievement in the television industry.
Dennis De Groot has credits on many of the most successful and revered television sitcoms, entertainment shows and comedy dramas, including Alan Partridge, French and Saunders, Black Books, Jam, Little Britain, That Mitchell and Webb Look, A Young Doctors Notebook, The IT Crowd and Bad Education.
Commenting on the award, the RTS jury stated: “The winner has demonstrated his knack of complementing demanding and complex sitcoms and sketch shows with inspired and inventive sets and witty design solutions - and it is no surprise that he is sought after time and time again by the best writers, producers and performers in the comedy fraternity.”
The RTS also recognised the talents of NFTS Editing graduate Paulo Pandolpho who won the award for Best Editing - Drama for his work on the Channel Four series Cucumber. The jury praised Paulo saying: “The editing quite clearly was one of the stars of an incredibly brave piece of television. Outstanding visceral storytelling where the skill of the editor was key.”
In addition, NFTS graduate Cinematographer Gavin Finney was DoP on the BBC2 series Wolf Hall, which was presented with the Judges’ Award. The School was delighted to see that NFTS Documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto and NFTS Screenwriting recent graduate Regina Moriarty have both received prizes at the 25th annual Women in Film and TV Awards.
Kim was presented with the The Argonon Contribution to the Medium Award, in recognition of the excellence achieved through her exemplary body of work in the same media. Her most recent film is the award-winning documentary Dreamcatcher.
Regina, who wrote the BBC3’s award-winning drama Murdered By My Boyfriend, was winner of the FremantleMedia UK New Talent Award recognizing significant emerging talent in film, television or digital media. Regina is currently adapting Jane Rogers’ Booker-longlisted young adult novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb as a three-part series in development with Carnival Films and is also working with fellow graduate Dominic Savage on a crime drama idea.
Regina took part in the recent Colin Young Annual Lecture, chaired by Sandra Hebron, which this year focused on Women in Film and Television. Sandra Hebron is the NFTS new Head of Screen Arts and is leading the Film Studies Programming & Curation MA course that starts in January, 2016.
There are still a few places available on this two-year Masters course, which is delivered in partnership with the BFI. Find out more here
Pictured: kim Longinotto on left
