Nyal Mueenuddin, a UWE Bristol graduate, has won a prestigious 2024 Yugo BAFTA Student Award – a global competition which celebrates the next generation of talented and innovative storytellers. Nyal won the BAFTA Student Award for his documentary ‘When the Floods Come’, which tells the stories of people living with flood and drought along the Indus in Pakistan. ... Read more
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Originally only seen on sets of large-scale Hollywood productions like The Mandalorian and most recently in Barbie and Dune blockbusters, virtual production (VP) is becoming an important element of the modern day education. Leading institutions like Sunderland University, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and Solent University Southhampton have embraced Brompton LED processing as part of ... Read more
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Final Pixel, an innovation agency & creative filmworks with verticals across innovation, production, worldbuilding and training. The company launches a new Final Pixel Academy training course for DoPs who want to learn Unreal Engine as a pre-vis tool working in virtual production. Final Pixel Academy as the training arm provides solutions internationally to deliver stage ... Read more
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The National Film and Television School (NFTS) announce that its annual fundraising gala, held at Old Billingsgate in London last night (25th June) and hosted by Dermot O’Leary, raised a record-breaking total of £525,000. All proceeds will go directly towards funding scholarships and bursaries to support emerging talent in film, television, and games to attend the NFTS ... Read more
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CVP has announced a strategic partnership with UAL (University of the Arts London), who is renowned for its innovative programs and ranked in the Top 2 Universities globally for Art and Design by QS World University Rankings. The framework agreement ensures that the academic team and students at UAL faculties have access to the industry’s ... Read more
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Disguise is partnering with MARS Volume, created by Bild Studios, to launch an Accelerator course that lets students get hands-on with the same MARS LED volume used on 3 Body Problem, Culprits, Gangs of London and more. The course — Disguise’s 23rd Accelerator to date — follows the success of its other training programs in Los Angeles, New York, Barcelona, ... Read more
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CVP and Canon UK & Ireland announce the winning projects for the prestigious Stories in Motion Young Filmmakers Awards. The awards have been established to encourage and promote the creative talent of emerging filmmakers – aged from 18 to 25 years old – to recognise the best short films produced by the most exciting new ... Read more
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The unprecedented selection of three LFS student films over three consecutive years marks a unique achievement in the history of film schools at the Cannes Film Festival. This year’s film, Praeis from Lithuanian director, Dovydas Drakšas features in La Cinef (formerly known as Cinéfondation), created in 1998 in a bid to discover new young international cinematographic talent, with only 15-20 short films ... Read more
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Climate Spring announces the return of its The Hot House development lab for scripted long-form TV and feature film projects. Following a hugely successful 2023 run with nearly 500 submissions, this year’s lab spotlights ‘stories of the climate transition’, incentivising screenwriters to craft engaging and relatable climate stories set in a near future without fossil ... Read more
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The National Film and Television School (NFTS) and the Sean Connery Foundation announce the first intake of 26 emerging filmmakers who will join the prestigious Sean Connery Talent Lab, set to begin later this month in Leith, Edinburgh. In an exciting development, the Talent Lab is also proud to welcome Prime Video as its newest ... Read more
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