BA Film and Television Production
This well established course has an international reputation, and many of our graduates go on to work in film, television and the media.
The course gives equal importance to film and production and academic work; our philosophy is that academic study should inform and enrich practical production work, and that theoretical work should be based on an understanding of practice.
We believe in developing film-makers who can collaborate creatively as they develop a high level of competence in specialist areas like writing, producing, cinematography, directing, production design editing and sound. You will have the opportunity to explore these different disciplines, and to work with both 16mm film and digital video, before specialising in Year Two. Meanwhile, academic modules explore film through a range of theoretical and historical approaches.
With purpose built studios, a set construction workshop and professional film, video and sound facilities, we offer an ideal environment to prepare for professional life.
The course receives substantial support from manufacturers, facilities companies and film laboratories and you will gain experience of working with professional actors, negotiating with local authorities and equipment companies and dealing with the public.
An external examiner commented that the films produced by the BA Film and Television Production course set the standard for other UK institutions to judge their work by.
The BA Film and Television Production course has had many successes at film festivals across the UK and internationally. Recent successes include:
2010
Kodak Student Commercial Awards
Best Overall- Winner- Deborah Hutton Campaign: Smoking Law
Best Overall- 3rd Place- Robinson's: Be Natural
Best in Brief- Winner- Deborah Hutton Campaign: Smoking Law
Best in Brief- 2nd Place- Robinson's: Be Natural
Best Post Production- Winner- Deborah Hutton Campaign: Smoking Law
Innovation Award- Winner- Deborah Hutton Campagin: Smoking Law
Best Script- Winner- Robinson's: Be Natural
Best Animation- Winner- Robinson's: Be Natural
Screentest 2010
Best Comedy- Winner- Foxes in the Underground
Tears of the Son (nominated)
Turkey (nominated)
Life Coach (nominated)
Best Script- Winner- Foxes in the Underground
Best Film- Foxes in the Underground (Nominated)
Best Drama- Prick (Nominated)
If Love is the Answer... (Nominated)
Best Acting- Foxes in the Underground (Nominated)
Turkey (Nominated)
Best Sound- Tears of the Son (Nominated)
Royal Television Society
Student Television Awards
Best Fiction- Winner- Tears of the Son
If Love is the Answer...(Nominated)
Foxes in the Underground (Nominated)
Best Factual
Bearsac (Nominated)
2009
Exposures: New Talent in Moving Image Film Festival, Manchester
Best Live Action- Winner- Prick
Tears of the Son (Nominated, with honourable mention)
London Young Film Festival
Best Short Film- Winner- Prick
Kodak Student Commercial Awards
Best in Competition, Best in Brief, Best Casting- Winner- Lynx : Be Careful Who You Turn On
Royal Television Society
Student Television Awards
Best Factual- Winner- Chequered Flags of Our Fathers
Pose Down (Nominated)
2008
Royal Television Society
Student Television Awards
Best Drama- Winner- Jump
Shahaada (Nominated)
Screen Test
National Student Film Awards
Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary- Winner- Shenzhen: Transformation in Modern China
Best Technical Achievement- Winner- Jump
Best Drama
Jump (Nominated)
Osgood's Circus (Nominated)
Kodak Student Commerical Awards
Best in Brief- Winner- Hellman's: Lunchtime
National Film Challenge
Best Cinematography- Winner- Grand Prix
Recent Festivals where films from Westminster Film School screened in competition:
2009
Munich International Festival of Film Schools
15th - 21st November 2009
Tears of the Son
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
17th - 22nd November 2009
Charlie Chaplin
Film Academy Vienna Film Festival
Chequered Flags of Our Fathers
Pose Down