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Students from Newport University’s multi award winning BA documentary film course are celebrating a double success.

Newport Lecturer, Simon Fenoulhet, from the University’s School of Film, Photography and Digital Media will this month receive a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council for Wales.

Loserville was written and directed by BAFTA award winning filmmaker and lecturer at Newport, Peter Watkins Hughes and stars Denise Welch and Alexandra Roach recently seen as the young Margaret Thatcher in the Meryl Streep Thatcher biopic ‘The Iron Lady’.

Following the resounding success of its first Creative Industries Fair held in Caernarfon in 2010, CULT Cymru is set for its next high profile event.

MFA Film student Steven Keen was recently selected to attend a 5 day film-making course in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

University of Wales, Newport Graduate, Asif Kapadia’s international hit film, Senna scooped two awards at last night’s BAFTAs in London.

Film, games and animation students from University of Wales, Newport are celebrating amazing success at the Ffresh Student Film Festival 2012.

Newport University’s Film School have achieved 28 nominations in this year’s festival, hosted by the University’s City Campus, and the Riverfront Theatre and Arts centre.

The Children Who built Victorian Britain, a BBC4 history programme broadcast last year has been nominated for Best History Production in the 2012 History Makers Awards.

Animators, documentarians and drama film students from the University's acclaimed Film School are celebrating an unprecedented 22 nominations for the Ffresh Film Festival 2012.

The exhibition The Silent Village is an innovative presentation of the events in connection with the tragic fate of the village of Lidice.

By Humphrey Trevelyan, Newport University Film School

Documentary film students, nominated for “Best UK Student Documentary” at the 2011 Grierson Awards, came away with a ‘highly commended’ award for their film ‘Vince & Cherry’s Greatest Hits’.

A group of Newport youngsters will see their work on the big screen at the Riverfront Theatre on Thursday following a successful project at Newport University.

International award winning filmmaker Christopher Morris has been appointed to the role of Professor of Practice, Documentary Film at the University of Wales, Newport.

Two Newport graduate films have been short listed for the prestigious 2011 Grierson British Documentary Awards, for the category of Best Student Documentary.

The tiny border town of Hay-on-Wye is steadily establishing itself as a Mecca for film-makers and cinema fans with its growing film festival, and this year documentary films from the world-renowned Newport Film School will play a starring role.

The opening night of the University of Wales, Newport Graduate Show 2011 took place at the City Campus on Friday night and was a huge success.

For nine hand-picked media graduates, the creative and physical journey from Wales to Budapest to Paris begins next week as the exclusive Transform@Lab cross-platform development programme is brought to life.

Four graduates of Newport’s internationally famous film school have been announced in the nominations for BAFTA Cymru Awards, 2011.

Newport film students have once again been nominated for the National Royal Television Society Student Awards to be held in London in May.

Animators, documentarians and fiction students from Newport Film School are celebrating their success at the 2011 Ffresh Student Moving Image Festival of Wales, a competition open to all Welsh University film courses and students.

Skillset Media Academy Wales has announced the first ever exchange between its lead partner, Newport Film School and Columbia College, Chicago.

Media students and graduates at the University of Wales, Newport stand to benefit from increased expertise as nine new media professionals join the Industry Panel at Skillset Media Academy Wales.