Behind each and every project made at the NFTS is a huge pool of talented individuals working in more than 25 specialist areas from Producing and Production Design to Screenwriting, Sound Design and Model Making.
Here we highlight the host of awards and successes picked up by films, television and games created by our graduates while studying here.
NFTS graduates achieve success within a short window of time and go on to become key creative leaders for much of the UK’s largest and most high profile film and television content. To see what alumni go on to do, check out nfts.co.uk/alumni-success
To watch the trailers and see cast and crew of the films featured below, visit screeningroom.nfts.co.uk
Recent NFTS Awards and Success
- Animation
- Do Not Feed The Pigeons - 2021 Graduation Film
WINNER - Best British Short Animation - EE BAFTA Film Awards 2022
Night Of The Living Dread - 2021 Graduation Film
WINNER - Best Student Film - Annie Awards 2022
O Black Hole - 2020 Graduation Film
WINNER - Best Postgraduate Student Film Award - British Animation Awards 2022
Spring Roll Dream - 2022 Graduation Film
WINNER - Lights On Women Award, Cannes Film Festival
A Bird with no Legs - 2019 Graduate Film
SELECTED Best of Stars of Students at Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Mother's Ruin - 2019 Graduate Film
SELECTED Best of Stars of Students at Hiroshima International Animation Festival
One Liner - 2019 Graduation Film
SELECTED Best of Stars of Students at Hiroshima International Animation Festival
The Unknown - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED Best of Stars of Students at Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Cha - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED for Encounters Film Festival | Best Animated Short Film at Asian Cinematography Awards | Best Director at Asian Cinematography Awards | SELECTED for Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Heatwave - 2019 Graduation Film
SELECTED Golden Kuker Sofia International Animation Film Festival | Third Prize Animation at CILECT Awards | Silver Screen Award for Animation at Young Directors Award at Cannes | ‘Postgraduate Animation’ at RTS Student Television Awards | ‘Postgraduate Sound’ at RTS Student Television Awards |‘Verna Fields Award for Student Film Makers’ at Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Camerawork’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Editing’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Production Design’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Sound’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Writing’ at RTS Student Craft Awards
Almost There - 2019 Graduation FilmNOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Animation’ at RTS Student Television Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Sound’ at RTS Student Craft Awards
Meow or Never - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED for Austin Film Festival | SELECTED for VGIK International Student Festival | WINNER Class of 2020 Best Short Film Women in Animation | SELECTED for Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia | SHORTLISTED BAFTA Student Film Award for Animation
Something Borrowed - 2020 Graduation FilmSELECTED Austin Film Festival | SELECTED Nashville Film Festival | Screening Award from New Designers | BAFTA Student Film Award for Animation - Commercials
- A Timeless Dance - 2020 Bremont Solo 34 Collection commercial
SELECTED for Canadian International Fashion Film Festival
No (Directed by William Markarian-Martin) - 2018 Stella McCartney Commercial
SELECTED for Canadian International Fashion Film Festival
No (Directed by Andreea Ciobanu) - 2018 Stella McCartney Commercial
SELECTED for Canadian International Fashion Film Festival
Hungry Mobsters - 2018 Kodak Savourists Commercial
NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Short Form’ at RTS Student Television Awards
Timing is Everything - 2019 Bremont Commercial
SELECTED for Canadian International Fashion Film Festival | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Short Form’ at RTS Student Television Awards
Rough Hands - 2019 Kodak Nursem Commercial
‘Postgraduate Short Form' at RTS Student Television Awards
De-Reset - 2018 Stella McCartney Commercial
SELECTED for Canadian International Fashion Film Festival - Documentary
- The Violence Between Us - 2022 Graduation Film
NOMINATED - Best Student Film, One World Media Awards
In The Space You Left - 2021 Graduation Film
NOMINATED - David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, IDA Documentary Awards 2022
Tease - 2021 Graduation Film
WINNER - All3Media Best Student Documentary, Grierson Awards 2021
Thinking About the Weather - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED for Nordisk Panorama Film Festival | NOMINATED ‘New Nordic Voice’ at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival
Isle of Us - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED for Dinard Film Festival | SHORTLISTED BAFTA Student Film Award for Documentary | NOMINATED ‘Best Student Film’ at One World Media Awards | Selected for Sheffield Doc Fest
Miss Curvy - 2020 Graduation FilmSELECTED for Austin Film Festival | AWARD WINNER ‘All3Media Best Student Documentary’ at Grierson Awards | NOMINATED for Student Academy Awards | SHORTLISTED BAFTA Student Film Award for Documentary | NOMINATED ‘Best Student Film’ at One World Media Awards
Lola - 2020 Graduation Film
Selected for HotDocs
Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie - 2019 Graduation Film
Selected for Sundance Film Festival: London
- Fiction
- Edfell - 2020 XR VR Graduation FIlm
SELECTED for LFF Expanded at BFI London Film Festival
Gimcrack - 2020 NFTS Platform! Kickstarter Graduation Film
SELECTED for Norwich Film Festival
Azaar - 2019 Graduation Film‘Postgraduate Production Design’ at RTS Student Television Awards | ‘Postgraduate Camerawork’ at RTS Student Television Awards | NOMINATED ‘Best Short Film’ at EE British Academy Film Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Camerawork’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Production Design’ at RTS Student Craft Awards
November 1st - 2019 Graduation FilmFirst Prize Fiction at CILECT Awards | ‘Postgraduate Writing’ at RTS Student Television Awards | SHORTLISTED ‘Best Short Film’ at EE British Academy Film Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Camerawork’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Editing’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Production Design’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Sound’ at RTS Student Craft Awards | NOMINATED ‘Postgraduate Craft Skills – Writing’ at RTS Student Craft Awards
Órla and the Fish - 2019 Diverse Directors Workshop Film
Silver Screen Award for Film School (6 mins and over) at Young Directors Award at Cannes
Shoal - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED for Dinard Film Festival | SHORTLISTED Live Action Film at BAFTA Student Film Awards
Who Goes There? - 2020 Graduation Film‘Heartland Horror Award’ at Indy Shorts International Film Festival | ‘Heartland Horror: Audience Choice Award’ at Indy Shorts International Film Festival | SHORTLISTED BAFTA Student Film Award for Live Action Film
The Retreat - 2020 First Year Film
SELECTED for Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia - Science and Natural History
- Life on the Rocks - 2020 Graduation Film
AWARD WINNER Newcomer at Naturvision | SELECTED for Wild Ocean Film Festival | Selected for ‘CortoNatura’ section at Gran Paradiso Film Festival | AWARD WINNER ‘Emerging Filmmaker’ at Jackson Wild Media Awards | NOMINATED ‘Emerging talent Panda Award’ at Wildscreen |NOMINATED ‘Best Short Film’ at Green Screen International Wildlife Film FestivalSnakes, Fear & Me - 2020 Graduation Film
NOMINATED ‘Newcomer Award’ at Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival
The Flying Gold of Arabuko - 2019 First Year Film
Special Mention ‘Short Film’ at Naturvision | Special Mention at Jackson Wild World Wildlife Day Film Showcase: Biodiversity | SHORTLISTED BAFTA Student Film Award for DocumentaryPainted Ladies - 2019 First Year Film
Selected for ‘CortoNatura’ section at Gran Paradiso Film Festival | SELECTED for Naturvision | SHORTLISTED BAFTA Student Film Award for Documentary | NOMINATED ‘Emerging Filmmaker’ at Jackson Wild Media Awards
Fight For Quiet - 2020 Graduation Film
SELECTED for Naturvision
The Common Ground - 2019 First Year Film
SELECTED for Naturvision
Those in Grass Houses - 2019 First Year Film
SELECTED for #LabMeCrazy Science Film Festival | SELECTED for Naturvision | NOMINATED ‘Best Short Film’ at Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival
Everything is Broccoli
SELECTED for Pariscience International Science Film Festival | SELECTED for #LabMeCrazy Science Film Festival | SELECTED for ‘CortoNatura’ section at Gran Paradiso Film Festival
The Silent Forests - 2020 Graduation FilmSelected for ‘CortoNatura’ section at Gran Paradiso Film Festival | NOMINATED ‘Newcomer Award’ at Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival
Bananas - 2020 Graduate Film
NOMINATED ‘All3Media Best Student Documentary’ at Grierson Awards
Lifespan - 2020 Graduate Film
SELECTED for InScience Film Festival | SELECTED for #LabMeCrazy Science Film Festival
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