BA (Hons) Film Production

Our graduates have gone on to work on such productions as Harry Potter, Gravity, Sherlock Holmes, and a host of BBC dramas, while others are employed at companies like Framestore and DreamWorks. Graduate career destinations include:

• Screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire
• Director of The Killing and Bora Bora
  
• Boom operator for The Hurt Locker and The Sweeney
• Recordist on Men Don't Lie and The Glowing Hours
• Partner/co-founder of BOKO Creative and BOKO Advertising
• Film editor for Finnish TV
• Prop assistant on Les Misérables
• Sound assistant on Fast and Furious 6
• Director of Calm With Horse
  
• Director of How to Have Sex
• Camera operator on Captain Phillips
• Sound editor on Casino Royale and Harry Potter
  
• Art department on The Crown and The Witcher
• Production assistant on Michael McIntyre's Big Show
• Colour grader for BBC factual programmes

Alumni from the BA (Hons) Film Production course include: Simon Beaufoy, writer of 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire; Chris Dickens, editor of Slumdog Millionaire and Submarine; Chris Jones, co-author of The Guerrilla Film Makers Guide; Mark Blaney, producer of Africa United; Nick Love, writer and director whose recent credits include The Firm and executive producer of Monsters; and Molly Manning-Walker, whose directorial debut How to Have Sex was nominated for three BAFTAs.

Our BA (Hons) Film Production students and graduates have gone on to win great things.

2025 Kodak/NAHEMI Awards

• Third place overall | This One First
• Winner in Brief | This One First
• Winner in Brief | Bon Appétit
• Third in Brief | Pirates

2025

• Winner | Cinemagic – On the Pulse Festival (Comedy or Drama) – Eyes, Front
• Winner | Thriller/Suspense Film and Writing Festival Toronto, Best Short Film – James Rigby, Versipellis
  
• Winner | Kino London, Best Low Budget Short award; nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing – Triangle
• Nominated | RTS Southern Centre Student Awards (Entertainment and Comedy) – The Greenhouse Next Door
• Nominated | Birmingham Film Festival, Best Student Film, Audience Award, The Bull Award – Limbo

2024 Kodak/NAHEMI Awards

• Winner | Craft Award for Best Editing – The Real Deal
  
• Third place/Best in Brief | Tea Rebellion
• Third place/Second in Brief | Death's Open Mic
• Second in Brief | Baz and Biscuit, Breaking Point
  

2024

• Winner | Sky Arts Awards, Film – Molly Manning Walker, How to Have Sex
• Nominated | Student Academy Awards, Alternative/Experimental – Lullaby for the Lost

2023 Kodak/NAHEMI Awards

• Winner/Best in Brief | Bag of Bags
• Best in Brief | Jack and the Edamame
• Best Animation | The Wrong Choice
• Third in Brief | Nothing to Wear, Plastic Fan
  

2023

• Winner | RTS Southern Awards, Best Student Drama – The Cubicle
• Winner | RTS Southern Awards, Best Student Factual – P is For Paradise

2020 — Winner | RTS Awards, Best Student Drama (plus four further nominations)

2019 — Winner | Regional RTS Awards, Best Student Drama – Zebra

• Winner | 21st Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, The Audience Award
• Winner | Waterspite Festival, Best Cinematography
• Nominated | Exposures Film Festival Manchester, Best Screenplay
• Nominated | Screentest Festival Best Sci-Fi Fantasy, Best Performance, Best Production
• The National Student Film Festival
• The Cambridge International Student Film Festival
• Kodak Student Commercial Awards
• New York City International Film Festival
  
• Saatchi New Director's Showcase
• Toronto International Film Festival exhibition