Big Year For NFTS Graduates At Cannes 2023!
Last week the list of feature films selected for Festival de Cannes 2023 were announced and it’s going to be a big year for The National Film and Television School!
Screening during the festival, which runs 16-27th May, are four productions with NFTS alumni at the helm. After graduating from the NFTS just three short years ago, Molly Manning Walker’s directorial debut How to Have Sex is being shown in the Un Certain Regard section. The film covers the intimate and important story of three friends who contend with peer pressure in their decision to “do it”. In the same category is 2010 graduate Anthony Chen’s latest feature The Breaking Ice which follows the blossoming relationship among three young adults in their twenties and marks 10 years since Chen’s debut film Ilo Ilo was awarded the festival’s Camera d’Or for Best Debut Feature in 2013.
Screening In Competition is La Chimera, a drama where a young British archaeologist gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artefacts. The film stars Josh O'Connor and Isabella Rossellini and was produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina who graduated from the School in 2017. After graduating in 2021 Producer Johannes Schubert, alongside 2020 graduate Associate Producer James Bowsher have found their film Club Zero selected for the prestigious festival which follows a teacher who takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
A whole host of graduates worked behind the scenes on more films across the categories including over a dozen on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. See the full list below and stay tuned for further titles being announced in the coming weeks!
In Competition
Club Zero Producer Johannes Schubert; Associate Producer James Bowsher
The Zone of Interest Production Sound Mixer Tarn Willers
La Chimera Producer Carlo Cresto-Dina
Firebrand Art Department Assistant Eva Calland-Waller
The Old Oak Senior Mix Technician Nikola Zivojinovic; Colourist Carl Thompson
Un Certain Regard
How to Have Sex Writer/Director Molly Manning Walker; Line Producer Marie-Elena Dyche
The Breaking Ice Writer/Director Anthony Chen; Editor Hoping Chen; Dialogue Editor Zoltán Kadnár
Out of Competition
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Concept Artists Kim Frederiksen and Qingling Zhang; Art Director Isona Rigau; Assistant Art Directors Olivia Muggleton and Gareth Sprey; Stand-by Art Director Huw Arthur; Sound Utility Keith Morrison; Additional Sound Utility Nicholas A Ager; Sound Mixer: Splinter Unit Andy Paddon; Senior Layout Artist: ILM Jake Ferris; Location Coordinator Caterina Boselli; Covid Testing Coordinator Tian Boyce; Assistant Production Coordinator: Additional Photography Lorenzo P Monti; Production Secretary Malika Ruzmetova; Assistant to Kathleen Kennedy Athena Sammy
See the full list of selections here: festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/the-films-of-the-official-selection-2023