Royal Television Society Unveils 2020 Student (Animation) Nominations
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The Royal Television Society (RTS), Britain’s leading forum for television and related media, has shortlisted the nominations for the national RTS Student Television Awards 2020, sponsored by Motion Content Group. Across six categories, 23 institutions’ students have received nominations, having qualified by winning at their respective regional RTS Student Awards earlier this year.
Now in its 25th year, the awards ceremony will be livestreamed on Friday 26 June at 2pm BST. Further details will be published on the RTS website in due course. The RTS Student Awards celebrates the best audiovisual work created by students with an Undergraduate and Postgraduate winner both awarded in each category across Animation, Comedy & Entertainment, Drama, Factual, News and Short Form.
Animation Nominations
Undergraduate:
- Ctrl + Alt + Z – Holly Keating, Conor Leech, Ciara O’Shaughnessy and Kai Munoa (Ballyfermot College of Further Education)
- Margin of Terror – Kieran McLister (University of Edinburgh)
- You’re Fit – Lydia Reid (Kingston University)
You’re Fit by Lydia Reid (Kingston University)
Postgraduate:
- Almost There – Nelly Michenaud, Tim Dees, Nathanael Baring, Kate Phibbs and Team (National Film and Television School)
- Heatwave – Fokion Xenos, Priya K. Dosanjh, Brendan Freedman, Stella Heath Keir, Kevin Langhamer and Team (National Film and Television School)
- In Her Boots – Kathrin Steinbacher (Royal College Of Art)
Siobhan Greene, Managing Director, 110% Content and Chair of the RTS Student Television Awards, said:
It was inspiring to see such imagination, heart and energy, that was put out there for everyone to see by all the nominees. We need to be uplifted, now, more than ever before, and the life force of creativity we watched from the entries was fantastic. I can’t wait to ‘meet’ the nominees via Zoom on 26 June. They deserve all the praise they’re going to get.
Full list of nominations:
Comedy & Entertainment:
Undergraduate:
- Biggy – Henry Oliver, Jordi Estapé Montserrat and Liam Morgan (Ravensbourne University)
- FLIT – Jack Allen, Elías Nader, Ina Morken, Laurence Jenkins and Carey Melanie Osborne (University of Edinburgh)
- Holiday! – Toby Matthews, Amy Lindley and Charles Power (Falmouth University)
Postgraduate:
- Go For Alanya – Anna Castelaz, Arianne Smith, Madeleine Quarm, Daniela Velasco, Olga Lagun and Jessica Halee (Goldsmiths, University of London)
- Lucy – Menghan Zhu, Gwennaëlle Counson, Lia Monguzzi, Ziyu Qiu, Elliot Barker and Ruojing Yang (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Drama:
Undergraduate:
- A Dead Canary – James Davis, Elle Ralph, Charlotte Murphy, Rachel Neill and David Richards (University of Gloucestershire)
- Sealskin – Anna Venuto, Lara Karam and Daisy Leigh Phippard (Arts University Bournemouth)
- Starry Night – Emma Smith, Caoilinn Handley, Rachel Moloney, Lori Stacey, Anna Heisterkamp and Team (IADT Dun Laoghaire)
Postgraduate:
- Azaar – Myriam Raja, Nathanael Baring and Team (National Film and Television School)
- November 1st – Charlie Manton, Teodora Shaleva, Molly Manning-Walker, Theo Boswell, Celina Øier and Team (National Film and Television School)
- Ufo – Harvey Gardner, Reece Steel and Luca Michelli (University of the West of Scotland)
Factual:
Undergraduate:
- Building Bridges – Josephine Cressy, Guillermo Quantanilla Pinto, Maximillian Wilson, Pierre Niyongira and Luke Denton (University of the West of England, Bristol)
- The Curiosity of Edward Pratt – Thomas Sandler, Oscar Godfrey and Alex Gordon (University of York)
- Women Uprooted – Dominique de Villiers, Fran Brotherton-Cottrell, Ellie Price, Grace Mosley and Andrea Stensholm Klæboe (Falmouth University)
Postgraduate:
- Carrying Myself – Matea Petrović (University of Salford)
- Green and Grey – Lucia Amoroso (UCL)
- Separation – Wei Han (UCL)
News:
Undergraduate:
- A Roof Over Our Heads – Pien Meulensteen (University of Salford)
- Inked – Alex Bridgewood (University Of Derby)
- It Takes All Sorts – Katya Fowler (University of Leeds)
Postgraduate:
- Host or Hostile? – Issa Farfour (Cardiff University)
- Tarred by the Brush of Modern Slavery – Huong Nguyen (Nottingham Trent University)
- The Decline of The Great British Bee – Adam Smith (University of Sheffield)
Short Form:
Undergraduate:
- Looking For – Cian Desmond, Caoilinn Handley, Jack Desmond and Lori Stacey (IADT Dun Laoghaire)
- Night Hopper – Lauren Burnham (Staffordshire University)
- Tia – Jamie Walsh (University of Central Lancashire)
Postgraduate:
- Hungry Mobsters – Francis Corby Ceschin, Paola Gonzalez Camarero, Said Englund, Ava Isak, Fabio Mota and Team (National Film and Television School)
- Rough Hands – Fabio Mota, Lily Grimes, Francesco Cibati, Beatriz Honório, Malika Ruzmetova and Team (National Film and Television School)
- Timing is Everything – Michele Vicenti, Twan Peeters and Team (National Film and Television School)