The National Film and Television School (NFTS) was established in 1971 and is based at Beaconsfield Studios

Beaconsfield Film Studios

Beaconsfield Film Studios is a British TV and film studio in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. The studios were operational as a production site for films from the 1930's and continued producing films - and, later, TV shows - until the 1960's. Britain's first talking movie was recorded there, as were...

 in Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish operating as a town council within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies northwest of Charing Cross in Central London, and south-east of the county town of Aylesbury...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, and it is located close to Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, approximately west of central London. The studios have played host to many productions over the years from huge blockbuster films to television shows to commercials to pop promos.The purchase of Shepperton...

.

History

The National Film School (the original name) opened in 1971, the work of four years of planning to create an institution to train personnel for the British film industry. Department of Education and Science

Department of Education and Science

The phrase Department of Education and Science refers to government departments in the UK or Ireland* For the former Irish government department, see Department of Education and Skills...

 had in 1967 recommended the creation of a national film school for the UK, and in 1969 an inquiry led by Lord Lloyd of Hampstead began to develop plans.

In 1970, a Scot named Colin Young (then chairing the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

's Department of Theater Arts), was appointed as the School's first director. The NFS bought the old Beaconsfield Film Studios in Buckinghamshire and set about refitting it to professional industry standards. Young established four permanent departments - production, camera, editing and sound - and in 1971 the first intake of 25 students passed through the studio gates.

The curriculum in the early days was loosely structured; sporadic seminars and workshops were secondary to production, with students spending most of their time doing exactly what they had come to the School to do - making films. But by the early 1980s, Young felt this system no longer served the students' best interests and a more structured curriculum was introduced. Links with the Industry were strengthened, allowing students' idealism and creative talent to be matched with collaborative, financial and production expertise.

In 1982, the School changed its name to The National Film and Television School, as many of its graduates went on to make their careers in TV. That same year it launched a pilot project for re-training freelance industry professionals. This led to the establishment of the National Short Course Training Programme (now ShortCourses@NFTS), which has been running courses ever since on all areas of film and television production. By the early 1990s, the school had modified its original stance on course structure, deciding to provide specialisation at the time of entry. The first year still offered a general course, followed in the next two years by focused training in one of the ten specialist areas (direction, writing, editing, camera, sound, animation, design, producing, documentary and composing).

Colin Young retired in 1992 and was succeeded by Henning Camre

Henning Camre

Henning Camre is a Danish cinematographer and film industry administrator, currently President of the Think Tank on European Film and Film Policy...

, formerly Head of the National Film School of Denmark

National Film School of Denmark

TheNational Film School of Denmark is an independent institution under the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. It was established in 1966 and is based on Holmen in the harbour of Copenhagen.-History:...

. Camre aimed for more balanced numbers in each of the ten specialist areas, creating separate departments with their own head tutors and curricula. He was also successful in securing a Lottery grant to install state of the art new equipment, positioning the School to take full advantage of new production methods offered by innovations in technology and ensuring that graduating students could compete with the best as they embarked on their careers.

Camre was succeeded in 1998 by Stephen Bayly, an NFTS graduate and film producer (Richard III

Richard III (1995 film)

Richard III is a 1995 drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West....

, Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels....

). His first move was to reorganise the curriculum to run over two years, instead of three. Recognising a growing trend towards a requirement for academic qualifications, he sought to achieve this. Eventually, The Royal College of Art agreed to validate the School's courses and 2000 saw the first intake of students who would graduate with an MA. In 2002, Bayly introduced the first of the shorter Diploma courses, established to meet an urgent Industry need for properly trained sound recordists.

September 2003 saw Nik Powell

Nik Powell

Nik Powell is one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group with Richard Branson. After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established Virgin Records in 1972...

, one of the UK's leading producers, to take over from Bayly. Powell has rapidly expanded the programme of new courses, introducing Diplomas in Producing & Directing Television Entertainment (now an MA), Digital Post-Production, SFX/VFX, Directing Fiction, and Script Development (a partnership venture with The Script Factory). Powell has reinvigorated the programme of visiting filmmakers, and set up a programme of masterclasses run at London cinemas for NFTS students and the public. He has also introduced a range of development deals with broadcasters and independent production companies to help new NFTS graduates get started and, in 2005, joined forces with NESTA

NESTA

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts is an independent endowment in the United Kingdom established by an Act of Parliament in 1998....

 (The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) to launch NFTS Inc, a Creative Pioneer programme supporting graduates of any UK film school develop start-up businesses in the motion picture industry.

Today, the NFTS has around 160 full-time students, with a further two dozen part-timers on the Script Development course and about a thousand a year on its short courses. It is the only film school in the UK which boasts its own film and television studios, and post-production facilities rivalling those of professional companies. Its talented community of students makes around a hundred films a year on courses that are still over 90% practical and unlike anything offered at any other UK film school.

The NFTS also holds yearly graduation shows at the BFI Southbank

BFI Southbank

BFI Southbank is the leading repertory cinema in the UK specialising in seasons of classic, independent and non-English language films and is operated by the British Film Institute.-History:...

 (formerly known as the National Film Theatre). These are highly selective and invite-only events which showcase the student's projects to scounts and industry professionals, ensuring that the students receive maximum exposure.

The NFTS is a Skillset Film and Media Academy

Distinction

The BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 stated that the NFTS was the "leading centre of excellence for education in film and television programme making", and noted that it was "relevant to the industry's present and future needs." British Film Magazine once described the NFTS as being one of the few schools to come "very, very close" to guaranteeing a job in the film industry, and named its leader (Powell) a "maverick"; Filmmaking.net named it one of two films schools outside the US which had such a high international reputation.

Funding

Until its repeal in 1986, the school was funded partly through a tax on cinema ticket sales known as the Eady Levy

Eady levy

The Eady Levy was a tax on box office receipts in the United Kingdom, intended to support the British film industry and named for Sir Wilfred Eady. It was established in 1957 and terminated in 1985.- Background :...

, named after then UK Treasury

HM Treasury

HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy...

 official Sir Wilfred Eady. The NFTS has since been funded by the UK Government, via (today) the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, such as broadcasting and internet....

, and the television and film industries.

Key Partner Sponsors include main UK terrestrial

Terrestrial television

Terrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which does not involve satellite transmission or cables — typically using radio waves through transmitting and receiving antennas or television antenna aerials...

 and satellite broadcasting companies BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

, BSkyB, S4C

S4C

S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...

 and the Film Distributors' Association. In addition, a large number of public and private donors fund scholarships to assist (chiefly British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and EU) students.

Full-time courses

The NFTS offers the following two-year MA courses validated by the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

:

• Cinematography
• Composing for Film and Television
• Digital Post-Production
• Directing Animation
• Directing Documentary
• Directing Fiction
• Editing
• Games Design and Development
• Producing
• Producing and Directing Television Entertainment
• Production Design
• Screenwriting
• SFX/VFX
• Sound Design for Film and Television

and the following one-year Diploma courses:

• Production Management for Film
• Production Management for Television
• Script Development (in association with The Script Factory)
• Sound Recording for Film and Television

The NFTS also runs a Documentary Summer School - summerdocs - every year.

Short courses

Shortcourses@NFTS regularly run short courses for professionals working in the film and television industries - covering the following areas:

• Documentary
• Drama
• Business Skills
• Camera & Sound
• Editing
• Craft & Technical
• Multiplatform

Members

The school has around 100 full-time staff as well as many top tutors from within the industry.

The Board

• President: Lord Attenborough, CBE
  CBE
  CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...
  
  
• Chairman: Simon Shaps
• Deputy Chairman: Stephen Louis
• Director: Nik Powell
  Nik Powell
  Nik Powell is one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group with Richard Branson. After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established Virgin Records in 1972...
  
  
• Other Board Members:
  • Peter Barron, Google UK
  • Floella Benjamin
    Floella Benjamin
    Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin OBE DL is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and politician...
    
    , OBE (Floella Benjamin Productions)
  • Tom Betts, ITV
  • Dan Brooke, Channel 4
  • Colin Brown (British Film Commissioner)
  • Sally Debonnaire, (BBC)
  • Michael Hamlyn, Specific Films
  • Clive Jones, CBE (ITV
    ITV
    ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
    
    )
  • Duncan Kenworthy, OBE (Toledo Productions)
  • John McVay (PACT)
  • Steve Mertz (Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
    
    )
  • Simon Relph, CBE (Skreba Creon Films Ltd)
  • Angela Roberts, (BBC)
  • David Sproxton, CBE (Aardman)
  • Sophie Turner-Laing (BSkyB)
  • Colin Young, CBE

Partners

• Key Partner Sponsors
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Channel 4
  • Film Distributors' Association
  • S4C
  • Sky
• Key Partner Funders
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • HEFCE
  • PACT via the Independent Production Training Fund
  • Skillset Film Skills Fund

Key Tutors

• Helen Nabarro - Head of Animation Direction
• Brian Tufano BSC - Head of Cinematography
• John Rowe - Head of Digital Post Production and SFX/VFX
• Stephen Frears
  Stephen Frears
  Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...
  
   - David Lean Chair in Fiction Direction
  David Lean
  Sir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...
  
  
• Lynda Myles - Head of Fiction Direction
• Dick Fontaine - Head of Documentary Direction
• Jon Weinbren - Head of Games Design and Development
• Annabelle Pangborn - Head of Post Production
• Karin Bamborough - Head of Producing
• Caroline Amies / Moira Tait - Joint Heads of Screen Design
• David G Croft - Head of Television
• Corinne Cartier - Head of Screenwriting
• Andrew Boulton - Head of Sound Recording
• Caroline Leaf
  Caroline Leaf
  Caroline Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker and animator.Leaf made her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf, in 1968 at Harvard University. The short was made by dumping sand on a light box and manipulating the textures frame-by-frame.Her second film, Orfeo , had her painting directly on...
  
  

Awards and nominations

The students regularly get nominated (and sometimes win) international awards, even Oscars.

Facilities

The school's facilities were expanded in 2008 with the addition of new teaching spaces, public spaces and a new cinema, designed by Glenn Howells Architects and Buro Happold

Buro Happold

Buro Happold is a professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of buildings, infrastructure and the environment, with its head office in Bath, Somerset...

. Upon its completion in 2008, the strikingly modern two storey building (see photo above) won a coveted RIBA

Riba

Riba means one of the senses of "usury" . Riba is forbidden in Islamic economic jurisprudence fiqh and considered as a major sin...

 prize. In June 2009 it was formally named The Oswald Morris Building in honour of veteran cinematographer Ossie Morris

Oswald Morris

Oswald Norman Morris OBE, DFC, AFC, BSC is a British cinematographer. Known to his colleagues by the nicknames "Os" or "Ossie", Morris' film cinematography career spanned six decades.-Early life and career:...

.

Notable alumni (selection)

Animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

• Nick Park
  Nick Park
  Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep....
  
   (Chicken Run
  Chicken Run
  Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films...
  
  , Wallace and Gromit
  Wallace and Gromit
  Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series consisting of four British animated short films and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations...
  
  )
• Alison Snowden
  Alison Snowden
  Alison Snowden Alison Snowden Alison Snowden (born in Alison Snowden (born in Alison Snowden (born in [[Nottingham 4 April 1958) is a voice actress, producer, and screenwriter best known for [[Bob and Margaret]].- Life and work :...
  
   and David Fine (Bob and Margaret
  Bob and Margaret
  Bob and Margaret was a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States and all over the world. The series was produced by Nelvana, a Toronto animation studio, and created by Canadian David Fine and Brit Alison Snowden...
  
  , Bob's Birthday
  Bob's Birthday
  Bob's Birthday is a 1993 animated short by Alison Snowden and David Fine, winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards. The 12 minute 18 second film features a humorous look a wife's plans to throw a surprise birthday party for her husband on his 40th...
  
  )
• Tony Collingwood, Collingwood O'Hare
  Collingwood O'Hare
  Collingwood O'Hare is a TV animation studio based in London headed by writer/director Tony Collingwood and producer Christopher O'Hare. Responsible for animated TV series 'Oscar's Orchestra', 'Dennis the Menace', 'Gordon the Garden Gnome', 'Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!' and 'The Secret Show', among...
  
   Ltd, (Dennis the Menace, Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
  Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
  Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! was a 52-episode animated television series, produced by Collingwood O'Hare and HIT Entertainment, aired from 2003 to 2005, and was part of Cartoon Network's Tickle-U preschool television programming block in the United States...
  
  )

Cinematography

Cinematography

Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

• Roger Deakins
  Roger Deakins
  Roger Antony Deakins, ASC, BSC is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers...
  
   (Jarhead
  Jarhead (film)
  Jarhead is a 2005 biographical drama war film based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 1991 Gulf War memoir of the same name, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford with co-stars Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, and Chris Cooper. The title comes from the slang term used to refer to...
  
  , A Beautiful Mind
  A Beautiful Mind (film)
  A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar...
  
  , Fargo
  Fargo (film)
  Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...
  
  )
• David Tattersall
  David Tattersall
  David Tattersall BSC is a noted British cinematographer. He has worked on many big-budget films and has won an Emmy Award for his cinematography on the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles television series...
  
   (Die Another Day
  Die Another Day
  Die Another Day is the 20th spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond; it is also the last Bond film of the original timeline with the series being rebooted with Casino Royale...
  
  , Star Wars - Episodes I, II and III
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
  )
• Andrzej Sekuła (Pulp Fiction
  Pulp Fiction (film)
  Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...
  
  , American Psycho
  American Psycho (film)
  American Psycho is a 2000 cult thriller film directed by Mary Harron based on Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the same name. Though predominantly a psycho thriller, the film also blends elements of horror, satire, and black comedy...
  
  , Reservoir Dogs
  Reservoir Dogs
  Reservoir Dogs is an American crime film marking debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, and...
  
  )
• Alwin H. Kuchler (Code 46
  Code 46
  Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with themes that explore the moral impacts of advances in biotechnology. The soundtrack was...
  
  , The Mother
  The Mother (film)
  -Plot:May is an ordinary grandmother from Northern England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Trapped in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose...
  
  , Ratcatcher
  Ratcatcher (film)
  Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  , Morvern Callar
  Morvern Callar (film)
  Morvern Callar is a 2002 British film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Samantha Morton in the title role. It is based on Alan Warner's 1995 novel Morvern Callar.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  )

Directing (film)

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

• Mark Herman
  Mark Herman
  Mark Herman is an English film director and screenwriter best known for writing & directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas....
  
   (Little Voice
  Little Voice (film)
  Little Voice is a 1998 British drama film with music written and directed by Mark Herman. The screenplay is based on the play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright.- Plot :...
  
  , Brassed Off
  Brassed Off
  Brassed Off is a 1996 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. The film, a British-American co-production made between Channel Four Films, Miramax Films and Prominent Films, is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit...
  
  )
• Michael Caton-Jones
  Michael Caton-Jones
  Michael Caton-Jones is the director of such films as Scandal, Rob Roy, Memphis Belle and The Jackal...
  
   (Memphis Belle
  Memphis Belle (film)
  Memphis Belle is a 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Monte Merrick, starring Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz and introducing Harry Connick Jr. in his screen debut...
  
  , This Boy's Life
  This Boy's Life (film)
  This Boy's Life is a 1993 film adaptation of the memoir of the same name by Tobias Wolff. It is directed by Michael Caton-Jones and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias Wolff, Robert De Niro as stepfather Dwight Hansen, and Ellen Barkin as Toby's mother, Caroline...
  
  )
• Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives
  Distant Voices, Still Lives
  Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British film directed and written by Terence Davies. It evokes working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s, paying particular attention to the role of popular music, Hollywood cinema, light entertainment, and the public house within...
  
  , The Neon Bible
  The Neon Bible (film)
  The Neon Bible is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel of the same name by John Kennedy Toole. The film is about a boy named David coming of age in Georgia in the 1940s...
  
  )
• Michael Radford
  Michael Radford
  Michael Radford is an English film director and screenwriter.-Early life and career:Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford...
  
   (Il Postino
  Il Postino
  Il Postino is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title...
  
  , The Merchant of Venice
  The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)
  The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It is the first full-length sound film version in English of Shakespeare's play; most other versions are videotaped productions made for television...
  
  )
• Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher
  Ratcatcher (film)
  Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  , Morvern Callar
  Morvern Callar (film)
  Morvern Callar is a 2002 British film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Samantha Morton in the title role. It is based on Alan Warner's 1995 novel Morvern Callar.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  )
• David Yates
  David Yates
  David Yates is an English filmmaker who rose to mainstream prominence directing the final four films in the Harry Potter film series. He helmed the series' fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth installments, all of which became an instant blockbuster success and made him the most commercially...
  
   (Harry Potter
  Harry Potter (film series)
  The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling...
  
  , The Stand
  The Stand
  The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It demonstrates the scenario in his earlier short story, Night Surf...
  
  )
• Beeban Kidron
  Beeban Kidron
  Beeban Kidron is an English Film Director known for her much-lauded adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and for directing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason...
  
   (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
  Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)
  # Will Young - "Your Love Is King"# Jamelia - "Stop"# Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head"# Joss Stone - "Super Duper Love Pt. 1"# Mary J...
  
  , Hippie Hippie Shake)
• Anthony Waller
  Anthony Waller
  -Filmography:*Mute Witness *An American Werewolf in Paris *Nine Miles Down *The Singularity Is Near -External links:*...
  
   (An American Werewolf in Paris
  An American Werewolf in Paris
  An American Werewolf in Paris is a 1997 horror/comedy film about werewolves. It was directed by Anthony Waller and stars Tom Everett Scott and Julie Delpy...
  
  , Mute Witness
  Mute Witness
  Mute Witness, is a 1994 thriller/horror shot in Moscow, Russia written, directed and produced by Anthony Waller. Although made in 1994, it was not released in the USA until the fall of 1995...
  
  )

Directing (television)

Television director

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• Charles McDougall
  Charles McDougall
  Charles McDougall is a British Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning director.-Biography:McDougall has directed for popular television series which include the pilot episode of ABC's Desperate Housewives . McDougall has also directed episodes of Queer as Folk on Channel 4 and Sex and the City on HBO...
  
   (Desperate Housewives
  Desperate Housewives
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  , Queer As Folk, Hillsborough)
• David Yates
  David Yates
  David Yates is an English filmmaker who rose to mainstream prominence directing the final four films in the Harry Potter film series. He helmed the series' fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth installments, all of which became an instant blockbuster success and made him the most commercially...
  
   (State of Play, Sex Traffic
  Sex Traffic
  Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian two-part television drama directed by David Yates, written by Abi Morgan and produced by Veronica Castillo and Derek Wax...
  
  , The Girl in the Café
  The Girl in the Café
  The Girl in the Café is a British made-for-television drama film directed by David Yates, written by Richard Curtis and produced by Hilary Bevan Jones. The film is produced by the independent production company Tightrope Pictures and was originally screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 25...
  
  )

Composing for Film and Television

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

• Trevor Jones
  Trevor Jones (composer)
  Trevor Alfred Charles Jones is a South African orchestral film score composer. Although not especially well known outside the film world, he has composed for numerous films and his music has been critically acclaimed for both its depth and emotion.-Career:At the age of five, Jones already had...
  
   (Richard III
  Richard III (1995 film)
  Richard III is a 1995 drama film adapted from William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West....
  
  , Brassed Off
  Brassed Off
  Brassed Off is a 1996 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. The film, a British-American co-production made between Channel Four Films, Miramax Films and Prominent Films, is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit...
  
  )
• Julian Nott
  Julian Nott
  Julian Nott is a British film composer, mostly of animated films. He is best known for his work in the Wallace & Gromit films....
  
   (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British clay-mation animated comedy horror film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations, and released by DreamWorksPictures...
  
  , The Wrong Trousers
  The Wrong Trousers
  The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit...
  
  , A Grand Day Out
  A Grand Day Out
  A Grand Day Out is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit...
  
  )
• Dario Marianelli
  Dario Marianelli
  Dario Marianelli is a composer of piano, orchestral, and film music. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm , Pride & Prejudice , and Atonement , the last two for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score...
  
   (The Brothers Grimm
  The Brothers Grimm (film)
  The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 fantasy Adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam. The film stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger in an exaggerated and fictitious portrait of the Brothers Grimm as traveling con-artists in French-occupied Germany during the late 18th century...
  
  , V for Vendetta
  V for Vendetta
  V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government,...
  
  , Pride and Prejudice
  Pride and Prejudice
  Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England...
  
  , Atonement)

Documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

• Nick Broomfield
  Nick Broomfield
  Nicholas "Nick" Broomfield is an English documentary film-maker. He is the son of Maurice Broomfield, a photographer.Broomfield works with a minimal crew, recording sound himself and using one or two camera operators...
  
   (Kurt and Courtney, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
  Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
  Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer is a 2003 feature-length documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield as a follow-up to his 1992 film Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer...
  
  )
• John Burgan
  John Burgan
  John Burgan is an independent documentary director and writer. Many of his films are themed around identity, sense of belonging, and migration.Burgan is best known for his 1998 documentary essay Memory of Berlin...
  
   (Memory of Berlin)
• Molly Dineen
  Molly Dineen
  Molly Dineen is a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning UK television documentary director, cinematographer and producer....
  
   (Home from the Hill, The Heart of the Angel
  The Heart of the Angel
  The Heart of the Angel is a 40-minute documentary made by director/producer Molly Dineen in 1989, before the renovation of the 100-year-old Angel London Underground station....
  
  , Geri, The Ark)
• Kim Longinotto
  Kim Longinotto
  Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination...
  
   (Divorce Iranian Style, The Day I Will Never Forget, Sisters in Law
  Sisters in Law
  Sisters in Law: Stories from a Cameroon Court is a feature-length documentary film by Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto portraying aspects of women's lives and work in the judicial system in Cameroon, West Africa.-Plot:...
  
  , Hold Me Tight Let Me Go) (Rough Aunties
  Rough Aunties
  Rough Aunties is a 2008 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto about a group of women who protect and care for abused, neglected and forgotten children in Durban, South Africa. It won the Grand Jury Prize in the 'World Cinema — Documentary' category at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival....
  
  )
• Sean McAllister
  Sean McAllister (filmmaker)
  Sean McAllister is a former British documentary filmmaker.- Filmography :* Japan: A Story of Love and Hate 2008 - Tenfoot Films* The Liberace of Baghdad 2004 - Tenfoot Films* Hull's Angel 2002 - Channel 4 'True Stories'...
  
   (The Minders, Settlers, The Liberace of Baghdad
  The Liberace of Baghdad
  The Liberace of Baghdad is a 2005 British documentary film by filmmaker Sean McAllister focusing on the life and music of Iraqi pianist Samir Peter and his family in wartime Baghdad. The film received a 2005 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury award as well as the 2005 British Independent Film...
  
  )
• Sandhya Suri (I is for India
  I is for India
  I for India is an English and Hindi language film released in the United Kingdom in August 2007.Directed by Sandhya Suri, it chronicles home movie footage and reel-to-reel tape recordings made by her father, Doctor Yash Pal Suri, starting from the 1960s...
  
  )

Editing

• Alex Mackie (Judge Dredd
  Judge Dredd (film)
  Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Danny Cannon, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the strip of the same name in the British comic 2000 AD...
  
  , Bright Young Things
  Bright Young Things
  Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People: young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians, as well as society in...
  
  )
• Lucia Zucchetti (The Queen
  The Queen (film)
  The Queen is a 2006 British drama film directed by Stephen Frears, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Helen Mirren as the title role, HM Queen Elizabeth II...
  
  , Ratcatcher
  Ratcatcher (film)
  Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  , The Merchant of Venice
  The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)
  The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It is the first full-length sound film version in English of Shakespeare's play; most other versions are videotaped productions made for television...
  
  )

Producing

• Michele Camarda (Wonderland, This Year's Love
  This Year's Love
  This Year's Love is the title of a 1999 film set in and around Camden Town in London. It was written and directed by David Kane.-Cast:*Dougray Scott as Cameron*Jennifer Ehle as Sophie*Ian Hart as Liam*Sophie Okonedo as Denise...
  
  , Photographing Fairies
  Photographing Fairies
  Photographing Fairies is 1997 fantasy film based on Steve Szilagyi's 1992 novel Photographing Fairies.- Themes :This film explores some of the themes of folk religion such as: possession, paganism, animism, hallucinogens, parapsychology and fairy...
  
  )
• Sebastian Cody (After Dark, The Secret Cabaret
  Secret Cabaret
  Secret Cabaret was a magic-based television programme that ran for two series, of six episodes each, on Channel 4 in the UK during the early 1990s. It was conceived and fronted by British magician Simon Drake and was praised for giving a new and shocking twist to the presentation of illusions...
  
  and other Open Media
  Open Media
  Open Media is a British television production company, best known for the discussion series After Dark, described by The Daily Mail as "the most intelligent, thought-provoking and interesting programme ever to have been on television"....
  
   productions)
• Ben Lock (Purple and Brown (BAFTA winner TV), Tiny Planets)
• Rebekah Gilbertson (The Edge of Love
  The Edge of Love
  The Edge of Love is a 2008 John Maybury film starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys from a script by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley's mother...
  
  ,Patagonia
  Patagonia
  Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  )

Screenwriting (television)

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

• Ashley Pharoah
  Ashley Pharoah
  Ashley Pharoah is a British Television writer, co-creator of the successful drama series Life on Mars, which began on BBC One in 2006....
  
   (Life On Mars
  Life on Mars (TV series)
  Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural....
  
  )

External links

• NFTS page on myspace
• Official Animation Department website
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Quotas and Levies - explanation of various national film levies, including the Eady Levy
• Watch a masterclass about editing sound for animation with Annabelle Pangborn - BBC Blast