The race is on: We are teaming up with Germany's Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and Porsche once again to look for the next generation of emerging, creative advertising film talent around the world to give them a unique opportunity to present themselves and their work to a professional audience.

Welcome to our latest NFTS story! Tim Kaufmann just graduated from the NFTS Games Design and Development MA in February and already landed a job in the industry as a Developer at Factory 42. Tim is not alone – a fantastic 90% of this year’s Games Design graduates are already working in the industry!

The NFTS was delighted to welcome back NFTS graduate, writer-director Michael Pearce for a Masterclass on his acclaimed film, Beast – for which he won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut.  The New York Times said “Mr. Pearce has created a feverish fairy tale riven with dark horrors and forbidden desires.”  Mark Kermode praised the way “Pearce's increasingly intense psychological thriller deftly overturns expectations as it dances between timeless fable, modern romance and murder mystery.”

NFTS Producing MA graduate and BAFTA (Scotland) winning producer Annalise Davis (The Railway Man, Up There), writer Abigail Burdess (Tracey Ullman's Show) and director and NFTS Co-Head of Fiction and NFTS alumna, Lesley Manning (Ghost Watch) along with fellow NFTS graduates, Molly Manning Walker (DoP) and Mdhamiri Nkemi (Editor) and NFTS students, James Bowsher and Amy Vearncombe have created a short film called Seven to highlight the effects of climate change.