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Doreen Fonju & Richard Jephcote of Goldsmiths College recieving the NAHEMI award for best cinematography.

NAHEMI@Encounters 2011 : a sell out audience

Afarin Eghbal, director of "Abuelas", winner of the 2011 NAHEMI Creative FIlmmaking prize.

Once again the NAHEMI programme at Encounters International Film Festival in Bristol (www.encounters-festival.org.uk) proved to be an outstanding success. Cinema One at the Watershed was completely sold out and a lively and young audience enjoyed a good mix of the best student film making from around the UK. The programme included films from the London Film School, the University of the Creative Arts Farnham, Goldsmiths College, the Royal College of Art, The Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Newport Film School and the National School of Film & Television, with films that crossed the genres of animation, documentary and drama.

The NAHEMI award for Creative Filmmaking went to Afarin Eghbal of the NFTS for her film, “Abuelas”, a highly creative animated documentary on the disappearances under the authoritarian military junta that ruled Argentina in the late seventies and early eighties.

The NAHEMI award for best cinematography went to Richard Jephcote and Doreen Fonju of Goldsmiths College for their cinematography and lighting  on “Mrs Bates”, a beautifully lit imaginative recreation of the Bates household pre Psycho days.

Both awards were presented by the well known film producer and head of the National Film School, Nick Powell, and prizes of the latest version of Avid Media Composer version 6.0 were generously donated by Kevin Usher of Avid.

In 2012 Encounters Film Festival will be running at the earlier dates of 18th-23rd September, so watch out for a slightly earlier call for entries for the best films from NAHEMI this year !


Encounters in Bristol

Once again the NAHEMI programme at Encounters International Film Festival in Bristol proved to be an outstanding success.Cinema One at the Watershed was completely sold out and a lively and young audience enjoyed a good mix of the best student film making from around the UK. The programme included films from the London Film School, the University of the Creative Arts Farnham, Goldsmiths College, the Royal College of Art, The Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, Newport Film School and the National School of Film & Television, with films that crossed the genres of animation, documentary and drama.

The NAHEMI award for Creative Filmmaking went to Afarin Eghbal of the NSFTV for her film, “Abuelas”, a highly creative animated documentary on the disappearances under the authoritarian military junta that ruled Argentina in the late seventies and early eighties.

The NAHEMI award for best cinematography went to Richard Jephcote and Doreen Fonju of Goldsmiths College for their cinematography and lighting  on “Mrs Bates”, a beautifully lit imaginative recreation of the Bates household pre Psycho days.

Both awards were presented by the well known film producer and head of the National Film School, Nick Powell, and prizes of the latest version of Avid Media Composer version 6.0 were generously donated by Kevin Usher of Avid.

Executive Meeting

The next NAHEMI executive meeting will take place December 9th at 4pm in the University of Westminster, Regent Street building.

Nahemi at Encounters – 16th November

All those who can be in Bristol on the 16th November are invited to a reception at 7pm at the Watershed in conjunction with Nisi Masa. The reception is just before the Nahemi screening at 8pm and should be a useful opportunity to network with other student groupings.

‘Nisi Masa is a European network of associations, currently present in 26 countries. These associations consist of young professionals, students and enthusiasts with a common cause to discover new film talents, develop cross-cultural audiovisual projects, foster European awareness through cinema , create a platform of discussion and collaboration for young European filmmakers and ultimately support and promote European Cinema.’ Their website is : http://www.nisimasa.com/

The Nahemi screening will then take place at 8pm with 8 films being screened. The Nahemi awards for Creative Filmmaking and Best Cinematography which are sponsored this year by Avid, will then be presented to the winners by Nik Powell.

Cilect – Prague Invitation

Dear Nahemi members,

As members of Cilect we are invited to this annual conference. We have two delegates from the executive going, myself and Alistair Oldham, but it appears that there may be more places at the rate of 400 Euros (exluding travel) if you wish to attend.

best wishes

Claire

Conference 2011 Prague invitation

NAHEMI@ENCOUNTERS 2011 FILM FESTIVAL, BRISTOL

NAHEMI@ENCOUNTERS 2011 FILM FESTIVAL, BRISTOL

WATERSHED, CINEMA 1

8.00pm WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16th

The National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image, NAHEMI, presents a

programme of outstanding recent work by produced by film, television and animation

students around the country, with special awards for creativity and cinematography.

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LOST TRACKS (dir. Jon Stanford)

London Film School / Drama

Tobi, a teenager disillusioned with her family life and friends, gets ready to run away

from her life in rural Shropshire.

Jonstanfordproductions@hotmail.co.uk

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NIGHTHAWKS (dir. Rebecca Archer & Joanna Arlington)

University for the Creative Arts, Farnham / Animation

“The inner life of a human being is a  vast and varied realm” Edward Hopper (1953)

Joarlingon@hotmail.com

Rebecca_archer@live.co.uk

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MRS BATES (dir. Luis Jara)

Goldsmiths College / Drama

Life before Psycho, this is the story of Norman’s relationship to his mother.

richardjephcote@hotmail.com

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BELLY (dir. Julia Pott)

Royal College of Art / Animation

Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgement. In doing so he must experience

the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.

Julia_pott@hotmail.com

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COMING OUT (dir.Milo Howitt)

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries / Drama

Marc Foster hides a dark secret, living in exile amongst the shadows. A visitor makes a

discovery that will force Marc to confront his past and to step back into the light once more.

Milo@milomail.co.uk

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THE NEW AND THE OTHER (dir. Joseph Carauna)

University for the Creative Arts at Farnham / Animation

A confined community, a stagnant routine : when one man ventures outside, he is shocked

at what he sees and comes back to try and share what he has seen of the world outside.

Joscar28@gmail.com

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EIGHTY EIGHT (dir.Seb Feehan & Josh Bamford)

Newport Film School / Documentary

Champion roller skater, cyclist and swimmer Ralph Settle refuses to let life get the better of him.

Now 88 and a widower, everyone on the streets of Cornwall knows him by sight as “The Banjoman”.

Seb.feehan@hotmail.com

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ABUELAS (dir.Afarin Eghbal )

National Film & Television School / Animated Documentary

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild.

However horrific circumstances mean that she will have to wait for over 30 years.

festivals@nfts.co.uk

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In Defence of Public Higher Education

Following a lively discussion at yesterdays NAHEMI executive meeting, we thought the alternative white paper published in the Guardian  “In Defence of Public Higher Education” would be of interest to the NAHEMI membership.

Eat our Shorts audience award presented by Avid

At the Eat our Shorts festival on the 4th and 5th July the audience voted for the following films:

Waiting for Ben by Maria Cortese from Staffordshire University (Monday’s winner)

One Day in Nowhere Town directed by Joshua Sanger from the University of Westminster (Tuesday’s winner)

The awards were presented by Rachel Daly and Alex Keane from Avid.

Stop Press: change to Talking Shop programme

The talk at 11.30 on Monday 4th July will now be: How do we frame it?  with a talk by Nik Powell from the National Film and Television School on The Principles of Storytelling and a talk by Larra Anderson from the Northern Film School on Story Development in cinematography.

EOS 9 + Talking Shop 2011 Registration

6 Days to go!

Please use the link below on our News page to register for this year’s conference and student film festival:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1791226607