A group of Assistant Directors and industry colleagues have got together to run a Tough Mudder to raise funds for a brand new bursary scheme project, which will raise money to enable people from low income backgrounds to study at NFTS Scotland.

An incredible six NFTS graduation films have been selected for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, which takes place between the 19th and 30th June. NFTS graduation animations, Almost There directed by Nelly Michenaud, Heatwave, directed by Fokion Xenos and One Liner, directed by Ian Plinth will compete for the ‘Mclaren Award for Best New Animation’.

Welcome to our latest NFTS story, a series of blogs featuring our alumni talking about where they were before they came to the School and where they are now (follow the series by using the #NFTSStories hashtag across Twitter and Instagram). Nick Horowitz graduated from the Creative Business for Entrepreneurs and Executives course in 2015 and has since co-founded a creative agency for startups, The Clerkenwell Brothers, which has just celebrated its third birthday.

Welcome to our latest NFTS story, a series of blogs featuring our alumni talking about where they were before they came to the School and where they are now (follow the series by using the #NFTSStories hashtag across Twitter and Instagram). Samuel Thiery graduated from the NFTS Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA in February 2019 and is now working as Production Assistant for Arrow Films.