Alumni Highlights
Once again, our alumni and students have impressed us with their remarkable achievements in the past month. We’re incredibly proud to be connected with all the brilliant and hardworking talent who have studied with us.
MA Screenwriting graduate, Beru Tessema saw his play House of Ife premiere at Bush Theatre as part of the theatre’s 50th birthday season. The drama about an Ethiopian-British family is open until 11th June so there’s still time to get tickets.
This month we were delighted to see that Carajita, a feature written by MA Screenwriting graduate, Ulla Prida has been selected for Tribeca Film Festival. We’re looking forward to the screenings in June.
It was great to see the work of MA Filmmaking alumnus Koby Adom on screen again. In April the second series of BBC’s Nought’s + Crosses premiered on BBC1 with all four episodes on the series directed by Koby and available for streaming from BBC iPlayer. Koby directed three episodes in series one as well so it’s brilliant to see his hard work paying off.
Towards the end of the month, we were thrilled that Filmmaking alumnus Salil Fernandez, was recognised at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival for his documentary, The Tails of Boo-Boo & Cuddly Poo. The documentary follows the plight of stray animals in India with a focus on cruelty, abandonment, rescue, and love. Salil hopes to raise awareness, educate, and inspire the audience on a subject that has been driven by a labour of love. The project has also won the Best Film of the Festival award at the Kalakari Film Festival 2022 and was nominated at the Jaipur International Film Festival 2022.
LFS Graduate Film Highlights
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Glorious Revolution will be screening at Cannes LACINEF (France) in May! Congratulations to the cast and crew! Writer-Dir-Editor: Masha Novikova, DoP: Pablo Garrido Carreras. Set in 2014 at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, the film depicts a mother’s loss, as her son is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with the corruption in the bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Sucking Diesel has its world premiere at IndieLiboa Film Festival (Portugal), screening April 28th. Director-Writer: Sam McGrath.
after a room was awarded a Special Mention of the German Film Critics Association at FilmFest Dresden. Congratulations! Writer-Editor: Naomi Pacifique; Sound Design: Pablo Garrido Carreras; Producer: Rafael Manuel.
Dancing with Dharma had its world premiere at Life Beyond Life Film Festival (France), earlier in April. Writer-Dir: Sukanya Devika Katoch Jhala, Editor: Francesco Ibba, Co-Prod: Chen-Ling Liu.
A Firecracker Story had screenings earlier this year at: 16th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka (Bangladesh) in February and Akbank Short Film Festival 2022 in March; and will be part of the following festivals during April: Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2022: (USA) and at FITV Film Festival 2022 (USA).
The Viewing Room will be part of the Stockholm Independent Film Festival (Sweden) in the first week of May. Writer-Dir: Love von Hauswolff.
A Circle will be screening at Lanzarote Film Festival (Spain) in May and had its premiere earlier in March at the 8 Women Film Festival (Russia). Dir: Mariya Lukavska.
Third Solar Term will be screening at 14th International Film Festival of Larissa (Greece) in May 2022. Writer-Dir-Editor: Zhanfei Song, Prod: Naixin Liang, DoP: Tong Liu, Prod.Design: Aoya Su, Art Dir: Xiaojing Ma.
Odh Gohri was part of the online edition of the London International Student Film Festival in middle April. Writer-Director: Rochna Kumar.
After a very busy month of 6 screenings all over the globe in April after a room will be screening again at 16th Elbe Dock 2022 (Czech Republic and Germany) in May. Writer-Editor-Dir: Naomi Pacifique; Sound Design: Pablo Garrido Carreras; Producer: Rafael Manuel.
If you have any alumni news you would like to share, please send details to Holly at h.blake@lfs.org.uk