Raft Of National Film And Television School Credits At LFF 2024

This week the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) announced the full programme for its 68th edition, taking place between 9-20th October. 255 features, shorts, series and immersive works from 80 countries, featuring 64 languages will screen over the 12 days to audiences across the UK and online.

As in previous years, the feature film programme is organised into strands, designed to encourage discovery and engage new audiences. We are especially proud to announce that seven productions from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) have been selected for the Shorts Strand. These include graduation films Dragfox, Liminal Roots, Us Four, and Trouble, alongside Prime Video Directors Workshop films The Nobody and See It, Say It, as well as the NFTS/BBC Film Bridge to Industry production Stomach Bug.

Across the LFF programme are many other films with National Film and Television School graduate involvement. These include Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown and Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, both selected for the First Feature Competition.

NFTS graduates have contributed to several highly anticipated films, including Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Maria starring Angelina Jolie, and Conclave, featuring Ralph Fiennes.

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Room Next Door, shot by Eduard Grau Tarragona notably received a staggering 17-minute standing ovation following its premiere at Venice Film Festival!

Check out even more NFTS graduate involvement in films across the LFF programme, including…

Short film programmes

STRANDS

DEBATE
Families Like Ours
Production Designer Sabine Hviid

LAUGH
Diciannove
Production Sound Mixer Sara de Oliveira Lima

CULT
Sister Midnight
DoP Sverre Sordal
Editor Napoleon Stratogiannakis
Supervising Sound Editor/Rerecording Mixer Chris Wilson; Gunnar Oskarsson
Sound FX Editor/Rerecording Mixer Gunnar Oskarsson
Animation Producer Thijme Luc Grol
Animation Director Honor Patricia Price
Animation DoP Robert Anthony O'Kelly
Rodent Unit Editor Natalia Gozdzik
Puppet Maintenance Ellen Beaufoy

JOURNEY
Layla
DoP Craig Devine
Editor Fiona Katharina Brands
Associate-Producer Emily Eve Dring
Assembly Editor Raluca Victoria Petre
Casting Assistant Connor Lee Williams
Rerecording Mixer Nikola Zivojinovic
Production and Development Executive: BFI Phoebe Kate Sutherland

Super/Man: The Chistopher Reeve Story
Researcher Agnieszka Zuzanna Pawlowska

CREATE
Twiggy
DoP Diana Olifirova

Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Eachother
Editor Estephan Wagner

SHORTS

I Don’t Wanna Force a Smile

Dragfox
Director/Animator Lisa Ott
Producer Owen Thomas
Screenwriter John Cooney
Story by  John Cooney, Amy Tattersall White, Lisa Ott, Owen Thomas
Cinematographer Rufai Ajala (Roo)
Production Designer Lia Chiarin
Production Manager Olivia Song
Coordinating Model Makers Leah Brown, Aurelia Chilvers
Puppets and Props Katie Booth, Anika Chowdhury, Fran Dare, Lara Hosking, Darcie Kearns, Oonagh McDonald, Rob Mackie, Hannah Miller, Sam Mortimer, Felix Surplus
Sound Recordist Emily Compton
Editor Mariana Moraes
Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer Em Edwards
Composer Charli Mackie
VFX Conformist Shaunak Ranade
VFX Melwin George Mathew
Colourist/Online Editor Fox Bamber Barron

The Nobody
Director/Co-writer Razan Madhoon
Producer Paul Barker-Smith
Script Supervisor Lorelin Howie
Cinematographer Bart Bazaz
Production Designer Emanuela Piu
Production Assistant Seb Celestini
Assistant Director Ashley Gadsby
Assistant Cameras Davide Azzalini, Bertie Searles
Production Sound Mixer Clement Jack Harper
Editor Leif Phelps
Sound Designer Liam Sharpe
Composer Marcin Mazurek
Colourist/Online Editor Carl Thompson

Family Ties

Us Four
Director/Animator - Alex Peake
Producer - Bethany Cornelius
Screenwriters - Anna Moore, Alfie Flewitt
Cinematographer - Owen Cant
Production Designer - Shivani Bhawnani
Production Manager-  Teodora Petre
Sound Recordist - Luke Predeth
Editor - Andy Sowerby
Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer - Alex Lunney
Composer - Aleksandra Vilcinska
Colourist/Online Editor - Ivan Michael

Trouble
Director/Co-Writer - Sarah Blok
Producer - Arpita Ashok
Cinematographer - Owen Cant
1st AC - Davide Azzalini
2nd AC - Eden Bokrezion
Production Designer - Melissa Davis
Production Manager - Athena Vlachos
Production Coordinator - Teodora Petre
Assistant Directors - Yaz Evans, Ashley Gadsby, Tobias Gregory
Production Sound Mixer - Luke Predeth
1st Assistant Sound - India Holdstock
2nd Assistant Sound - George Philip Blake
Editor - Ben Sales
Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer - Alex Faingold
Colourist/Online Editor - Emmanuel Benjamin

Wondering, Wandering

Liminal Roots
Director/Animator - Aliyah Harfoot
Producer - Ella Ritchie
Screenwriters - Aliyah Harfoot, Amy Tattersall White
Cinematographer - Bart Bazaz
Production Designer - Kätlin Loomets
Coordinating Model Maker - Rob Mackie
Puppets and Props - Katie Booth, Leah Brown, Aurelia Chilvers, Anika Chowdhury, Fran Dare, Lara Hosking, Darcie Kearns, Oonagh McDonald, Hannah Miller, Sam Mortimer, Felix Surplus
Editor - Leif Phelps
Sound Designer/Dubbing Mixer - Omar Gabriel Delnovo
Composer - Rotem Frimer
Colourist/Online Editor - Ivan Michael

Trials and Tribulations

See It Say It
Director/Writer/Editor - Nez Khammal
Producer - Elena Valeri
Cinematographer - Rui Jiang Ong
Production Designer - Lia Chiarin
Production Manager - Chris Rej
Production Co-ordinator - Olivia Song
Assistant Directors - Ciara Gallagher, Helena Mika, Hannah Diver, Harvey Page
Assistant Cameras - Gemma Mancinelli, Alastair Searles, Gülistan Korkmaz
Production Sound Mixer - Callum Bentley
1st Assistant Sound - Domantas Jakubauskas, George Blake
VFX Supervisor - Olivier Lemery
VFX Artists - Daniel Peoples, Baptiste Andouin
Colourist/Online Editor - Vanessa Aparicio

Sleepless Nights

Stomach Bug
Writer/Director Matty Crawford
Producer Karima Sammout-Kanellopoulou
Cinematographer Andri Haraldsson
Production Designer Sehar Kidwai
Executive Producers Venetia Hawkes, Anuradha Henriques, Jon Wardle

LFF FOR FREE

BBC Comedy Short Films

Spud
DoP Jonathan Muschamp

Quiet Life
Executive-Producer Emma Frances Barnard
Title Designer Claire Winter

GALAS

Blitz
Senior Art Director Stephen Swain
Concept Artist Qingling Zhang
Draughtsperson Emanuela Piu
VFX Editor Ralph Foster
Junior Sound Effects Editor Ruth Andrea Knight
Sound Trainee Jake Hickey
Production Coordinator Sofia Guiotto
Post Production Coordinator Scott Peter Fraser
Payroll Assistant Silvia Santoro

The Apprentice
Editor Olivier Coutte

Bird
Floor PA Helena Maria Mika
2nd Assistant Sound Sam Alexander Jenkins
Casting Assistant Kerry Anna Grainger

Conclave
Executive-Producer Lorenzo Gangarossa

Joy
Dialogue Editor Ian Morgan

Maria
Co-Producer Ildiko Kemeny

The Room Next Door
DoP Eduard Grau Tarragona

We Live In Time
DoP Stuart Bentley
Supervising Art Director Thalia Ecclestone
Assistant Production Coordinator Zaynab Simrana Akhtar
Location Marshal Natasha Chantelle Polan-Payne

LFF AWARDS

Official Competition

Bring Them Down
DoP Nick Cooke
Story Jonathan Hourigan

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Co-Producer Gabriel Gauchet

First Feature Competition

On Falling
Line Producer Alexandra Maria Schuette Breede
Editor Helle le Fevre
Production & Development Executive: BFI Phoebe Kate Sutherland

Santosh
Writer/Director Sandhya Suri
Producer James Terrence Bowsher
Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor Nikola Medic
First Assistant Editor Oliver Jan Bauer
Post Production Supervisor Shaheen Schleifer
Production & Development Executive: BFI Phoebe Kate Sutherland

To a Land Unknown
Director/Producer Mahdi Fleifel
Sound Designer/Rerecording Mixer Steve Bond
Sound Effects Editor Raoul Brand
Sound Editor Jacob Ronald Fielding Hardwick

Documentary

Witches
Producer Maria Ventura
DoP Chloe Thomson

Short Film

Dragfox
See It, Say It
Stomach Bug

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Kristy Matheson, BFI London Film Festival Director, said of this year’s line-up: “Cinematic ideas materialise in many forms, and this year artists have taken us to some giddy highs and poked at our tender underbellies. Troubled histories linger close to the surface alongside optimistic futures, all explored in unique and creative ways. As the seasons change and we head into the Autumn, we invite everyone to come to the BFI London Film Festival to discover and enjoy the whole spectrum of moving image.”

The National Film and Television School would like to offer a huge congratulations to all alumni who dedicated their passion and skill to the outstanding productions within this year’s LFF programme.

The 68th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express will return to its flagship venues in the heart of London – BFI Southbank and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall from 9 to 20 October 2024. Tickets go on sale on 17 September.

Find out more and see the full programme: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp