Newport students secure 22 Ffresh Nominations 

Animators, documentarians and drama film students from the University of Wales, Newport’s acclaimed Film School are celebrating an unprecedented 22 nominations for the Ffresh Film Festival 2012. Animation, and MA Film students each took four out the five nominations in their particular categories while Documentary Film and Games students took three nominations in total.

The annual student film festival of Wales, which will be held in Newport Film School and the Riverfront Arts Centre this year (8th-10th February 2012) celebrates the best work of all the film courses across Welsh Higher Education institutions. As well as the awards, the Festival boasts an impressive selection of master-classes and guest speakers from the film and television world including Oscar nominated and Palme D’Or winning filmmaker Mike Leigh and ex Newport film student and BAFTA nominated director of ‘Senna’, Asif Kapadia.

Professor Christopher Morris of the University of Wales, Newport’s Film School said: “What is so pleasing is that Newport students achieved nominations in all but one category. There is first year work as well as graduate work represented in the nominations and I think that is a wonderful testament to the quality of the films, animations and games our students produce.”
The jury for this year’s awards included the acclaimed Welsh TV director Euros Lyn, Norwegian based motion designer and digital artist Kim Holm, Bristol based animation studio A Large Evil Corporation and Newport University, Film School graduates Rhys Waters and Nathan Mackintosh from Zipline Creative.

Below is a list of all Newport nominations:

Animation
Sun and Moon
Eva Wagner
Newport Film School
Growing Space
Kate Broadhurst
Newport Film School
The Man Who was Afraid of Falling
Joseph Wallace & Emma-Rose Dade
Newport Film School
The Last Journey
Claire Mason
Newport Film School

Experimental
Growing Space
Kate Broadhurst
Newport Film School
Dogbone
Christopher Edward Ranson
Newport Film School

Factual
The Mourning of the Valley
Andrew Gough, Paris Palmer, John Shand, James Earing & Ian Morley.
Newport Film School
Mostar
Seb Feehan, Josh Bamford & Hannah Bone
Newport Film

School
Luck
John Evans, Matthew Owen & Mihai Tarmure
Newport Film School
Eighty Eight
Sebastian Feehan, Josh Bamford & Hannah Bone
Newport Film School

Fiction (Undergraduate)
Coming Home
Lawrence Fowler, David Ware, Victoria Webbley & Aaran Lewis Leach
Newport Film School
Between Viewings
Raphael Biss, Daniel Cripps, Vaia Iknomou, Craig Lewis & Ashleigh Whitfield
Newport Film School

Fiction (Postgraduate)
Queensbury Rules
William Scothern, Nick Williams & Mark Pengelly
Newport Film School
Luella and Me
Rob Howells
Newport Film School
Bubbles
Leyla Pope, Sara Parry Jones & Geoffrey Morgan
Newport Film School
Skin Deep
Torkjell Strømme, Ben Jenkins, Riccardo Bacioalupo & Ben Jenkins
Newport Film School & University of Glamorgan

Games and Interactive Media
With the Dust
Kate Killick
and Henry Hoffman University of Wales, Newport
Thread Bear
Jenny Peers & André Da Silva
University of Wales, Newport
Q.U.B.E.
Daniel Da Rocha, Dave Hall & Jonathan Savery
University of Wales, Newport

Music Media
Made In Taiwan
Daniel Roberts & Stefan Roberts
Newport Film School

Short Shorts
Tea
Darryl Pargeter, Estelle Taylor, Francine Roberts & Callum Baker
Newport Film School
Smoke and Mirrors
James Button, Andrea Escuder & Kristaps Kazaks Newport Film School

Welsh Language
The Money Doctors
Richard Starkey & Christian Britten 
Newport Film School