NFTS Alumni Deliver Half Of The Winning Productions At RTS Programme Awards 2024

Last night, the Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards were held at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel in London, and The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is proud to announce that our alumni contributed to bringing half of the winning productions to our screens.

Across the 30 competitive categories, NFTS alumni-made productions took home 15 awards (not including those for performance) including Children’s Programme A Kind of Spark written by Karissa Hamilton-Bannis, Comedy Drama Juice, shot by Vanessa Whyte, Documentary Series Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, edited by Simon Sykes and Single Documentary Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story, graded by Carl Thompson.

The RTS also presented the Judges Award to ITV’s ground-breaking series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, for ‘shining a light on the human stories of the real people caught in a living nightmare, and the incredible audience reaction to the series which provoked the government to take action’. Alumni contributions on the series included Supervising Sound Mixer Adrian Rhodes, Editor Agnieszka Liggett and Production Designer Antonia Lowe.

The NFTS would like to offer a resounding congratulations to all of the well deserving alumni for being recognised for their outstanding work. See below to see more alumni involvement across the categories.

NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL ALUMNI INVOLVEMENT INCLUDES…

ARTS

WINNER - Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Alumni Contributions: Stefan Mattison - development producer

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME

WINNER - A Kind of Spark
Alumni Contributions: Charlie Green - casting assistant, Karissa Hamilton-Bannis - writer

COMEDY DRAMA

WINNER - Juice
Alumni Contributions: Alastair McNamara - additional music editing, choir orchestration/session preparation, orchestral arranger; Gemma Mancinelli - camera trainee, Miryam Jacomini - art director, Richard Dunton - steadicam operator, Vanessa Whyte - cinematographer

DOCUMENTARY SERIES

WINNER - Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Alumni Contributions: Donna Wade - cinematographer, Simon Sykes - editor

DRAMA SERIES

WINNER - Happy Valley
Alumni Contributions: Adam Johnston - 2nd assistant sound, Ben Foster - composer, Maiken Hansen - sound effects editor, Peter Warnock - sound effects editor, Raoul Brand - sound effects editor, Samuel Read - scoring assistant

FORMATTED POPULAR FACTUAL

WINNER - Sort Your Life Out
Alumni Contributions: Clement Harper - sound assistant, David Bridges - camera operator, drone operator, Filip Wyganowski - dv director, James Lacy - location runner

HISTORY

WINNER - White Nanny, Black Child
Alumni Contributions: Ross Leppard - editor

LIMITED SERIES

WINNER - The Sixth Commandment
Alumni Contributions: Gareth Pugh - assistant editor, Michael Sinden - first assistant sound, Natasha Roper - second assistant sound

LIVE EVENT

WINNER - Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Alumni contributions: Vicki Swain - researcher

SCIENCE AND THE NATURAL WORLD

WINNER - Chimp Empire 
Alumni Contributions: Darryl O'Donovan - music editor

SCRIPTED COMEDY

WINNER - Extraordinary
Alumni Contributions: Darryl O'Donovan - music editor

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

WINNER - Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story
Alumni Contributions: Carl Thompson - colorist

SINGLE DRAMA

WINNER - Partygate
Alumni Contributions: David Freeman - editor, Roger Goula - composer, Rotem Frimer - music editor,

SOAP AND CONTINUING DRAMA

WINNER - EastEnders
Alumni Contributions: Emily Priestnall - script editor, Georgia Redman - script supervisor, Hannah Pigott - script supervisor, assistant script editor, Lorraine Newman - written by, Matthew Evans - director, Vicki Kisner - director

JUDGES' AWARD

WINNER - Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Alumni Contributions: Adrian Rhodes - supervising sound mixer, Agnieszka Liggett - editor, Antonia Lowe - production designer, Petula Langlais - location guardian, Stephanie Bradshaw - crowd 2nd assistant director

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