As two of the few courses in the UK with full membership status for CILECT, the BA (Hons) Film Production and MA Film Practice provides students with practical experience of the many aspects of filmmaking alongside historical and conceptual knowledge that accentuates the importance of research. Our students learn the skills needed to take on key creative and production roles in both live action drama productions and documentaries. The BFS film courses provide opportunities to collaborate, to research and to develop projects together with other filmmakers that can extend beyond the course and into the industry.

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'Sealskin' Nominated for National
Royal Television Society Award

After taking home Best Undergraduate Drama at the Southern region RTS Awards in March 2020, graduation film 'Sealskin' is one of three undergraduate dramas nominated from the UK for the National RTS Awards in June.

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Interview with Screenwriting-Duo
Jessica & Henrietta Ashworth

The screenwriting sister-duo behind the feature Tell It to the Bees (2019) and Killing Eve season 2 sat down with us at the 2019 Bridport Film Festival, From Page to Screen.

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MA Graduate selected for
Tribeca Film Festival 2019

Film graduate Darius Shu will present his recent short film His Hands at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Darius co-wrote and co-directed the film and was also cinematographer for the short. Tribeca Film Festival is one of the largest festivals in the World and was founded by Robert De Niro.

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MA Film Graduation Showcase
premieres at BFI Southbank

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Award-winning cinematographer
Lorenzo Levrini visits BFS

Lorenzo Levrini visited campus to deliver a seminar to Film students on cinematography, industry expectations and experiences. His visit also included a series of one on one personal tutorials with final year cinematography students.

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BAFTA winning editor
Ariadna Fatjó-Vilas visits BFS

Three time BAFTA nominee Ariadna Fatjó-Vilas visited students to deliver a seminar on film editing and industry expectations. The talk was followed by one on one tutorial sessions with second and final year student editors.

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Q&A with British Screen Legend
Mike Leigh

Final year Film Production students got an exclusive Q&A with the BAFTA Fellowship recipient and British film directing legend Mike Leigh at the BFI Southbank during their Industry Day in January 2019.

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Zebra nominated for Best Drama at Royal Television Society Awards

BA (Hons) Film Production graduation short Zebra is nominated for Best Drama in the student category of the Southern Royal Television Society Awards 2019. The ceremony will take place in Winchester in March.

NEWS

2019 Graduation Film CrowdFunder
campaigns raise more than 
£50,000

BA (Hons) Film Production students launched their CrowdFunders campaigns to fund their 2019 graduation shorts in November and between the 14 films, received over £50,000 worth of donations.

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WINNER

Best Short Documentary at
Venice Short Film Festival

BA Film Production graduation documentary 'Here & Now' has won Best Short Film at the 2018 Venice Short Film Festival and Silver at the Independent Short Awards. Qui e Ora (the films original Italian title) follows the patients, families and staff at a palliative care hospice in Italy.

WINNER

Live to Remain wins Audience Award at
Schnit Worldwide Short Film Festival in Bern

The MA Film Production short film from writer/Director Bartek Sozanski picked up the Audience Award at the 2018 festival.

NOMINATED

Darius Shu nominated for
Best Cinematography at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Oniros Film Awards & Largo Film Awards

MA Film Production graduate Darius Shu has been nominated for Best Cinematography at this years Los Angeles Independent Film Festival for the film 'Secret Child: The Bridge'. His work is also nominated for its cinematography at the Oniros Film Awards and Largo Film Awards in Switzerland. The film recently screened at the Chinese Theatre after being selected for the Oscar qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival.

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BLEACH nominated in Best of British at
2018 Iris Prize

BA Film Production grad short 'BLEACH' continues its critical success being selected in competition for 'Best of British' at Iris Prize 2018. Iris holds the World's largest short film prize and exhibits the best of LGBT+ cinema.

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MA Director commissioned by
Channel 4's Random Acts

MA Writer/Director & Documentary maker Julia Alcamo created the experimental dance film ​'The Pool' to explore the moment that an anorexic girl falls asleep starving, driven into wild hallucinations by her hunger. 

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OFFICIAL SELECTION

Kajri Babbar's Khoj selected for 2018
Festival de Cannes

'Khoj' (2018) from writer/director Kajri Babbar was part of the 2018 official Cannes Film Festival selection. The MA Film Production graduation short was shot both in the UK and India with actress Zara Khan.

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Industry visit from renowned Film Director
Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright returned to the Arts University campus to talk to current film students about his time as a student
​and his subsequent career. 

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Missed Conceptions
continues festival circuit success

The 2017 BA graduation short from Director Ruby Parker-Harbord continues its festival circuit, adding Cineffable & Queer Vision film festivals to it's Autumn 2018 line up. The film has previously been screened at London Short Film Festival and BFI Flare earlier this year.

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NOMINATED

Two AUB Grad Films Nominated at
​2018 RTS: Southern Awards

'Missed Conceptions' was nominated for Best Student Drama at the February Royal Television Awards for the Southern region. The BA (Hons) Film Production short was accompanied by a Best Student Comedy nomination for fellow graduation film 'Care Free'.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Amal selected for TimeLine Film Festival
& Rome Independent Prisma Awards 

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WINNER

3 Wins for BLEACH at 2017
RTS: Student Television Awards

BA (Hons) Film Production graduation short BLEACH picked up three awards at the 2017 Royal Television Society: Student Television Awards, including the Judge's Award, Undergraduate Drama & Undergraduate Crafts Award - Camerawork.

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3 Wins for The Greatest Adventure of All
commercial at 2017 Kodak Nahemi Awards

The crew took home three awards at the awards ceremony in May 2017, including Overall Winner.  Additional awards for Best Production Design for the work of Freddie Burrows and Best in Brief for the charity ad penned by Jay Jones & Lewis Bayley. 

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