Press Release - 9.1.2013
London Film School hails nomination of Muriel d’Ansembourg’s graduation film GOOD NIGHT for BAFTA Best Short
– And ten LFS films selected for London Short Film Festival
2011 MA Filmmaking graduate Muriel d’Ansembourg has been nominated for a BAFTA Award for her graduation short Good Night. The film was produced by Eva Sigurdardottir
Good Nightwon the Jury Award at the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 2012 and Best Student Film at the California Independent Film Festival 2012 and has been selected for numerous other festivals including the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival 2012, the International Short Film Festival Leuven 2012, the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2012, Prague International Short Film Festival 2013 and the London Short Film Festival 2013
This is the second year in a row that a London Film School graduation film has received a BAFTA nomination. Arash Ashtiani’s Only Sound Remains was shortlisted in 2012.
London Film School films have been hugely successful on the festival circuit in recent months. Ten films are currently playing at the London Short Film Festival – a record number. As well as GOOD NIGHT, these are Early Birds (Jereon Bogaert),The Eternal Not(Joe Spray). Glitter and Storm (Rebecca E. Marshall), Skin (Janina Vilsmaier), Outland (Adina Istrate), Dinner and A Movie (Ben Aston), Waking at Dawn (Onyinye Egenti), Saturday (David Anderson) and Step Right Up (Benjamin Bee), following numerous international festival outings. Early Birds has been shortlisted for the British Council Award for Best UK Short Film at the festival, following official selections at Palm Springs, San Sebastian, San Franciso and the BFI London Film Festival.
Over the next months Clara Kraft Isono’s graduation film Achele will be playing in competition in Clermont-Ferrand, 2011 graduate Aygul Bakanova is participating in the Cannes Residence Programme and many graduates are involved in key roles in feature releases, including Film London Microwave project Borrowed Time, directed by Jules Bishop, produced by Olivier Kaempfer and shot by David Rom, all LFS MA Filmmaking graduates.
Ben Gibson said, "It's wonderful to see this recognition of talent coming through LFS – a BAFTA nomination and ten films selected for this year's London Short Film Festival shows the depth of the talent pool. LFS is a far-reaching, international community of graduates – and we are big in the UK too. These are exciting new names forging careers from London”.
Further info Kate Hughes 07788 432 852 k.hughes@lfs.org.uk
Notes to Editors:
The London Film School, founded in 1956, is one of the world's longest established graduate schools of filmmaking. It is constituted as an international conservatoire with 70% of its MA Filmmaking students coming from outside the UK. The School produces 160 films a year including work for the five teaching exercises on the MA Filmmaking. The School also offers MA degrees in Screenwriting and Independent Film Business (in partnership with University of Exeter) and Continuous Professional Development courses as LFS Workshops. LFS graduates (Associates) are established in film and television production in more than eighty countries. Associates include world-renowned filmmakers covering all kinds of cinema - names like Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Tak Fujimoto, Roger Pratt, Ueli Steiger, Iain Smith, Duncan Jones, Danny Huston, Franc Roddam, Ann Hui, Marius Holst, Oliver Hermanus and Bill Douglas.
LFS is one of three Creative Skillset Film Academies, postgraduate institutions approved by the UK film industry as centres of excellence.
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