Staff and students from all levels of our courses and campuses came together on Friday the 6th June 2024 to watch a programme of short films, documentaries and showreels in the CCA in the centre of Glasgow.
The full playlist of features from the event is available to view at our department’s YouTube.
The winners in full :
BA Student of the Year – Matt Hardie HND Student of the Year – Jeanie McGregor HNC Student of the Year – Chloe Johnson Best Sound Design – Fraser Struthers Best Documentary – Behind the Bag Best Showreel – Craig Lees Best Short Film – Untitled by Josh Lindsay Best Visual Effects – Josh Lindsay Best Cinematography – Jenna Pettigrew Best Editing – Craig Lees Arrowsmith Award for Best Director – Gemma Frame Best Scriptwriting – Josh Donnelly Best Meta-Skills – Jordan Howat Audience Award – Go Where?
Staff and students from all levels of our courses and campuses came together on Thursday 15th June to watch a programme of short films, documentaries and showreels in the auditorium in NCL’s Coatbridge campus.
The full playlist of features from the event is available to view at our department’s YouTube Channel.
There were a number of strong submissions in this year’s playlist from across all our cohorts and it was great to see some of our NQ students coming along to the event as well as some of their films featuring in the festival this year.
This year we were honoured to be joined by actor, writer and producer Sanjeev Kholi, who took questions from our students as well as presenting this year’s awards. Here are this year’s recipients:
HND Student of the year: David Wood
HNC Student of the year: Mika Turpin
NQ Student of the year: Tonino Scalia
Best Showreel : Ross McKay
Best Short Film: Sarah Stables “Barbicide”
Best VFX : Mika Turpin/Kacper Czarnecki
Best Sound Design: Rachael McKeever
Best Documentary: Aidan McAloon “Dragons, Dungeons and D20’s”
Best Director: Sam Murray “Forget Me Not”
Most Improved Student: Andrew Murray
Sanjeev Kholi & Aidan McAloon: Best DocumentarySanjeev Kholi & Kacper Czarnecki: VFX AwardSanjeev Kholi & David Wood: HND Student of the year.Thanks to Sanjeev for being such a great guest at the awards this year and allowing us to photograph him in his shorts.
Sarah Stables with her Craft Skills Writing Prize at the Royal Television Society Student Awards 2023
Congratulations to HND Film & Television student Sarah Stables who picked up the Craft skills for Writing prize at the Royal Television Society Scotland’s Student Awards at St Lukes in Glasgow last night.
Sarah’s short feature; “Falsehood” was nominated in the Drama category at the awards. She scripted, directed and produced the film during her HNC Film & Television Next Gen course at New College Lanarkshire’s Cumbernauld campus where she is currently working towards completing her HND Next Gen qualification.
Falsehood was nominated in the Drama category at the awards
Last year two former alumni of NCL’s Film & Television department; James Reid and Colleen Bell were both shortlisted in different categories with Colleen going on to pickup two awards, for her factual feature “The Space I Occupy”, which she produced during her studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Sarah accepts the Craft Skills Writing Prize
Sarah’s short feature “Falsehood” was one of the stand out films from last year’s NCL Film Festival and its great to see it pick up another award from The Royal Television Society this year. Its a well deserved accolade for the skill she demonstrated in that feature.
The shortlist for this year’s RTS Scotland Student Television Awards was recently announced and HND Film and Television student Sarah Stable’s short film; “Falsehood” is among this year’s nominees in the Drama category.
Sarah scripted, directed and produced Falsehood during her HNC Next Gen course at New College Lanarkshire’s Cumbernauld campus and the film has already picked up an award, winning Sarah Best Short Film in last year’s department awards.
Falsehood receives it’s first public screening at last year’s NCL Film Festival
Former NCL Alumni Colleen Bell scooped two awards from The Royal Television Society at their student awards ceremony last year. The Space I Occupy, won the Factual award and also won Colleen, the Craft Skills: Writing prize.
The awards ceremony, which will be held on Thursday 23rd March at St Lukes in Glasgow, is an annual recognition of the best student television production from students studying across Scotland and we wish Sarah all the best with her nomination.
For full details on the shortlist please visit this link
QTV Senior Technical Manager Julie Robinson came to New College Lanarkshire’s Cumbernauld campus – to raise awareness of the breadth of opportunities in the broadcasting industry in Scotland with our current HND students!
With 23 years of experience, a large portion of it working for the BBC, Julie explained the shortage of racks operators as well as replay operators facing the industry right now which presents an opportunity for trainees to have hands on experience leading on to guaranteed work which is attractive for a largely freelance work force.
Students are looking forward to the announcement of QTV’s 12 month training in partnership with BBC Studioworks and other broadcasters which will turnaround ready to work freelancers.
QTV is a fast growing company, covering a multitude of sport livestream across Scotland as well as event broadcast.
“Julie’s top advice to students was around resilience and debunking the glamour of working in TV – especially outside broadcast which can be tough with long hours and varying weather conditions – but also providing a fast paced and exciting environment for someone able to think on their feet!
We’re very grateful to Julie for her time! “
Maureen CuestasRincon: Film and Television Lecturer
Renowned director and actor of stage and screen David Hayman joined Film and Television lecturer Maureen CuestasRincon at NCL’s Coatbridge campus for an engaging and uplifting conversation and discussion with students from the departments of Film and Television, make up artistry and performing arts.
In a wide ranging discussion David talked about the importance of his stage career, writing and directing documentary formats, the perils of fame and how creatives should handle their downtime.
In Conversation with David Hayman, 14h December 2022
I have never met anyone who had anything bad to say about David Hayman. In what is often referred to as a cut throat industry with ruthless competition, David Hayman seems to have to come through his 50+ years career spanning acting for the stage and screen, directing for both, and making documentaries – with an attitude firmly rooted in integrity, realism, and openness.
And these are the values he imparted on our students across the creative industries, at the Coatbridge campus auditorium this Wednesday 14th of December, for the best part of 2 hours. We agreed beforehand no topics were off the table, and after a moderated chat retracing David’s work across genres and formats, questions came from a very engaged audience – from refining an acting technique to dealing with rejection and overcoming self-sabotage, David answered with panache, true stories and his infectious laugh.
Time was suspended for our students in this ‘in conversation’ session with David, who talks with the wisdom of a lifetime of experience – and the enthusiasm and curiosity of someone who’s just getting started and still has so many stories to tell, earning him, I believe, the title he so often gets given online – of legend.’
Maureen CuestasRincon: Film and Television Lecturer
David Hayman, Lecturer Maureen CuestasRincon, Head of Visual and Creative Arts Alan Moffat.
HNCTV students Euan Paterson and Russell McRae deliver Gordon’s donation to Frances Park at the local Foodbank
The continued success of the Film & TV guest speaker slot recently saw Location Manager Gordon Keen deliver a guest lecture to NCL HNC Film and TV students.
He covered his experience as a location manager in the Film and Television industry and spoke about his latest job working on the TV series “Crime” which stars Dougray Scott and is currently in production.
Gordon asked that his fee be donated to a local foodbank in Cumbernauld and two HNC students, Euan Patterson and Russell McCrae, along with Lecturer Maureen Cuestas Rincon, duly went shopping and delivered £100 worth of food and essentials to Cumbernauld Town Centre Foodbank which is led by Frances Park.
Gordon delivers his guest lecture to Cumbernauld HNC Film and Television students
“Gordon demonstrates that there are great people in this industry. Not only did he come out to speak to students in person, he recognised the value in giving back to the community at a time when we are facing huge challenges with the cost-of-living crisis. Right now, more than ever, we need more people like Gordon.”
Congratulations to HND Film & Television alumni Maclej Gapik, who has been accepted to The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA in Film-making, one of the most competitive and prestigious film courses in the UK.
Maclej studied with NCL for three years, beginning with an NQ in Film and Photography before progressing on to an HN course in Film and Television.
He took a particular interest in camera operation and editing and during his three years studying with NCL significantly improved his camera operation skills and the quality of his content, shooting a wide variety of subject matter which included travel vlogging, weddings, documentaries, music video and corporate promotions.
Maclej Gapik: Citizen Of The World
We wish Maclej all the best with his future studies and hope that at some point in the future he’ll come back to present some of the projects he’ll be working on in his degree studies.
Damian Barr is a successful writer, broadcaster, and presenter who grew up in Newarthill, attending Brannock High school, which he writes about in his biography ‘Maggie and Me’.
On Tuesday lecturer Kim Beveridge will be chatting to Damian about growing up in North Lanarkshire, his career journey, the power of storytelling, activism, and finding out his top tips for creative resilience.
Check your teams channel for full details.
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Staff and students from all levels of our courses came together on Friday 10th June to watch a programme of short films, documentaries, music videos and showreels in the screening room at GMAC in Glasgow’s City Centre.
The full playlist of features from the event is available to view at our department’s YouTube Channel.
All agreed that the calibre of work this year has been exceptionally high and the award panel had a few debates and tough decisions along the way to selecting this year’s award winners:
HND Student of the year: Christopher Kelly
HNC Student of the year: Sarah Stables
NQ Student of the year: Linsay McNab
Best Showreel :Katarzyna Rycak
Best Short Film: Sarah Stables (Falsehood)
Best VFX and Sound Design: Chris Haughey (The Box)
Best Documentary: Graeme Ross (The Art of Falling)
Promising New Director: Simon Bryant (The Scent)
Most Improved Student: Iona Foulis
2022 Promotional PosterThe Screening Room at GMAC The screening of Sarah Stables’ short film “Falsehood”Award Winners Sarah Stables and Chris Haughey2022 NCL Film Festival
“It was a pleasure to watch this year’s student films in the GMAC screening room, and I think all the students got a kick from seeing their features on the big screen. The quality of the work this year was outstanding and we can already see the difference that the department’s Next Generation HN approach has made, which is really encouraging. I’d like to thank everyone involved, students and staff for all their hard work this year.”
Michael Grant, Film & Television Lecturer
“The quality from the HN’s this year has been really high, not only the practical and technical skills, but also the social skills. We’ve been lucky with our Next-Gen pilot cohort, in that we’ve had some really talented students come on board. Students that are now hopefully more open to new networking opportunities and more aware of the possibilities of a good collaboration. Skills and experiences that should see them well on their way. It’s great (and important) to see the hard work the students have put in all year long is recognised and rewarded at an event like this.
New College Lanarkshire: Film & Television 