The NFTS is the only UK film school with a film in Cinéfondation and its graduates and tutors have films in five sections of the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
The 2013 short animated student film The Magnificent Lion Boy (pictured above) - directed by Ana Caro and produced by James Cotton with characters voiced by the actors Andy Serkis and Hugh Bonneville - has been selected for the Cinéfondation section.
Two of our 2010 graduates have first feature films selected and there are 3 films in Directors' Fortnight. 2010 graduate Paul Wright who won a Best Short Film BAFTA for his NFTS film Until the River Runs Red has his first feature film For Those in Peril selected for Critics Week and 2010 graduate Anthony Chen’s film Ilo Ilo, which follows a family coping with the fallout of financial crisis, will be shown in Director's Fortnight (La Quinzaine). Their films also include NFTS graduate crews. Clio Barnard who graduated from the NFTS’ advanced course has her film The Selfish Giant selected for Directors’ Fortnight as well as Lynne Ramsay whose BAFTA winning film Swimmer is in the Directors' Fortnight short film section. Lynne Ramsay is also on the Cannes Film Festival Jury that will chose the winner of the coverted Palme d'Or.
NFTS Director Nik Powell said: “We are very proud to be the only UK film school at Cinéfondation this year – congratulations to the whole student film crew. It is also unprecedented to have two graduates from the same year (2010) with first feature films at Cannes at the same time. They are both stunning film-makers who deserve their place at the world’s most prestigious film festival.”
In addition, NFTS Visiting Fellow Director Stephen Frears' film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is in the Official Selection out of Competition. In the Un Certain Regard section is the film Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad and edited by NFTS Deputy Head of Editing Martin Brinkler.
Last year, Cinematography alumnus Charlotte Bruus Christensen won the Prix Vulcain for Best Technical Achievement for Jagten (The Hunt), directed by Thomas Vinterberg. NFTS recent graduate Ilian Metev won the France 4 Visionary Award in Director’s Fortnight for his film Sophia’s last Ambulance.
Four NFTS graduates won the Firefox Flicks Competition at the 65th Cannes film Festival. Andrew Alderslade, Sean O’Riordan and Remy Bazerque collected the PanavisionPrize – voted for by a jury for their commercial Paranoid.
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