NAHEMI AGM and Talking Shop July 7th at London College of Communication

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, June 22nd, 2017

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NAHEMI AGM & Talking Shop 7th July 2017
Schedule of Events

London College of Communication
Elephant & Castle
London
SE1 6SB

AGM 10.30am -12.30pm
Coffee and Danish Pastries served from 10am

LUNCH 12.30-1.30pm
Sandwiches and Beverages will be provided

Talking Shop

Session 1: 1.30- 3pm

1.30-2pm
Keynote Speaker
Joanna Callaghan, Sussex
Principal investigator on the AHRC funded Filmmaking Research Network
Chair of the MeCCSA Practice Network
Q & A

2- 3pm
Presentations
Alistair Oldham, University of the West of England
Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone
Q & A

Pecha Kucha Presentation
Shreepali Patel, Anglia Ruskin University
The Function of Experience within Practice-Practice Research

Short Reports
David Wheeler, Staffordshire University
Report on Munich Cinematography Conference
Peter Hort, University of Westminster
Report on CILECT Congress, Brisbane 2017

CHEAD’s role as an association of subject associations.

TEA/COFFEE 3-3.30pm

Session 2: 3.30pm – 5pm
Presentations
Dr. Pratap Rughani, London College of Communication
The Dance of Documentary Ethics
Q & A

Charlotte Crofts, University of the West of England
Screenworks: peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in film and screen media
Q & A

Short Presentations
Marek Budzynski Arts University Bournemouth
Embedding professional qualifications in the HE curriculum
Mark Carey, Leeds Beckett University
Electrical Safety on Student Shoots
Q & A

Chair’s Summary and Thanks
5-7pm Networking and Drinks

KODAK Commercial Student Awards 2017 -Winners

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, June 5th, 2017

19th May 2017
The evening at a very full Regent Street Cinema was brilliantly organised by Peter Hort, Sophie Moore and their team at University of Westminster. It was a huge success and was attended by staff and students from many of our member institutions from across the UK. Sir Alan Parker gave out the prizes and Nik Powell, Director of the NFTS gave the oration. The high creative and professional standard of entries was praised by the judges.

And the Winners were….

Craft awards
Editing I Hate You Least IADT
Directing Cops’ Valentine Gloucestershirre
Sound A Valentine’s Tale Gloucestershire
Cinematography Santa Stop Here NFTS
Production Design Greatest Adventure AUB
Writing The Human Flesh NFTS

Paperchase brief
1st Cupid NFTS
2nd Atonement NFTS
=3rd I Hate You Least IADT
=3rd Perfect Valentine AUB

Rays of Sunshine brief
1st Greatest Adventure AUB

Centrepoint brief
1st Christmas Tree NFTS
2nd The Human Flesh NFTS
3rd Santa Stop Here NFTS

Pearson brief
1st Sweet Dreams NFTS
2nd We All Start Somewhere NFTS

WeSwap brief
1. Prey Gloucestershire

Overall
1st Greatest Adventure AUB
2nd Cupid NFTS
3rd Atonement NFTS

Eat Our Shorts 2016 Friday 2nd December 2016 Regent Street Cinema

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, May 10th, 2017

This lively programme of impressive and diverse student films was very well attended by students and staff from many of our member institutions. The winners of the audience awards were the following: University for the Creative Arts Farnham, Harvest of a New Life, (documentary), Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University The Victorious (drama), and University of Westminster Husky (drama). We are very grateful to ARRI who have sponsored workshops for the prizewinning institutions.

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NAHEMI/ ENCOUNTERS SCREENING

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, September 14th, 2016

Please make your students aware of the NAHEMI/ ENCOUNTERS SCREENING / AWARDS CEREMONY next Wed 21st September 2-4pm Watershed, Bristol.

A fantastic programme of films from many of our member Institutions that comprises Drama, Documentary, Animation and Experimental work.

Delighted to announce Producer/IFeatures Executive Producer Christopher Granier-Deferre will be presenting the Awards.

Link for more details and tickets is here.

Kodak/Nahemi Student Commercials Competition 2016-17

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, September 13th, 2016

NAHEMI member institutions wishing to enter this competition please email Peter Hort, using the subject line above, with the number of entries they’d like to make, by Monday 3^rd October 2016 to  P.S.Hort@westminster.ac.uk   He will reply by Monday 10^th October.

We currently have three briefs, from the agencies Libertine and Ogilvie One, and expect another from Mother London.

Please note that students should not under any circumstances contact the agencies or clients. Any queries should be directed through Peter.

These are the dates and deadlines:

‘Expressions of interest’ with the number of entries you wish to make must be submitted by Monday October 3^rd 2016

Stock should be ordered by Friday 25^th November.

Entry forms and final commercials: deadline Friday 24^th February 2017

Awards: May 2017 at the Regent St Cinema; date to be confirmed

Kodak Nahemi Student Commercial Awards 2016

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, May 28th, 2016

Kodak/Nahemi Student Commercial Awards 2016

The Nahemi/Kodak Student Commercials awards night was held at the Regent Street Cinema, University of Westminster, on the 20th May 2016.

The awards night was hosted by Nik Powell from the NFTS and presented by Sir Alan Parker in inimitable style.

40 entries from 11 member institutions were judged by a panel drawn from the companies that set the briefs – Mother and Libertine advertising agencies, a commercials director and Sam Clark from Kodak. With generous sponsorship from Libertine, Kodak, the NFTS, the University of Westminster and AUB, a good night was had by all.

Nahemi would like to thank Peter Hort and Rhianna Rizvi for coordinating the competition and the awards night.

Craft

Special Effects           Bubble                                    Farnham

Editing                        Choose the Outdoors                        IADT Dun Loaghaire

Script                          Damon’s Funeral                   University of Westminster

Directing                    Luck                                        NFTS

Cinematography       Go Outdoors                           Manchester School of Art

‘Think’ brief

1.         Damon’s Funeral                   University of Westminster

2.         Luck                                        NFTS

3=       Down the Line                       Arts University Bournemouth

3=       Near Miss                               NFTS

‘Scunci’ brief

1.         The Monkey from Scunci     NFTS

2.         Three Princesses                   University of Westminster

‘Go Outdoors’ brief

1.         Into the Woods                      NFTS

2.         Been Inside Too Long?         University of Westminster

3.         We’ve Got You Covered        Anglia Ruskin

Overall top three

1.         Into the Woods                      NFTS

2.         Damon’s Funeral                   University of Westminster

3.         Luck                                        NFTS

NAHEMI Eat Our Shorts 13

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, December 18th, 2015

The Lucky Number 13 Eat Our Shorts festival was held in the beautifully restored birthplace of cinema, Regent Street Cinema (thanks to the University of Westminster) on the 11th December 2015.

Three programmes of films from 20 member courses were watched by an enthusiastic audience who voted for the winners as follows:
Screening 1: Mr Madila by Rory Waudby-Tolley from the Royal College of Art
Screening 2: Apollo by Joe Betteridge from Anglia Ruskin, the Cambridge School of Art
Screening 3: Je ne suis pas Charlie by Tariq Elmakki, Russell Cleave and Paul Chanter from the Plymouth College of Art.

The filmmakers won passes to the Future Film Festival at the BFI and Amazon vouchers. The winning courses have been offered a masterclass by Arri.

Q&As were hosted by Mark Trompeteler from the BKSTS, Will Howe from Canterbury Christchurch and Dominic Lees from UCA Farnham.

Prizes were awarded by Nik Powell from the NFTS.

Many thanks are due to Peter Hort and his team, in particular Rhianna Rizvi who brought it all together.

EAT OUR SHORTS Student Film Festival 2015

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, November 29th, 2015

The NAHEMI Eat Our Shorts Student Film Festival 2015 will be held at the Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW on Friday December 11th.

There will be three screenings of student films from NAHEMI members: Screening One: 11.30 – 13.15, Screening Two: 14.00 – 15.30 and Screening Three: 16.00 – 17.45. At 6pm three audience prizes will be awarded to the winning films from each screening and drinks will be provided. Tickets are available from:  http://www.eventbrite.com/e/eat-our-shorts-student-film-festival-2015-tickets-19768379756

Tickets for NAHEMI AGM and Talking Shop on Friday 26th June 2015

Posted in Latest by Suzie Hanna, June 16th, 2015

Annual General Meeting

10am Friday 26^th June 2015

The Blue Room at BFI Southbank.

Please book your ticket here:

Eventbrite booking for NAHEMI AGM

NAHEMI Talking Shop Programme

The Blue Room at BFI Southbank.

2pm – 3.30pm

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3 x 20 minute presentations with Q & A

Alistair Oldham

Senior Lecturer at UWE and documentary filmmaker

Teaching Film in the Age of the Internet

This paper will briefly attempt to open up some of those awkward questions around form, audience, genre and industry, questioning what implications such a monumental groundshift in distribution might have for our students’ futures in the traditionally termed ‘film and television industries’.

Judith Aston

Senior Lecturer in Film-making and Creative Media at UWE,and a co-director of i-Docs

Teaching Filmmaking in the 21st Century – an example from UWE

We have been teaching multiplatform and interactive documentary production alongside filmmaking for nearly twenty years and are starting to think in earnest about ways in which we can integrate these approaches more firmly within filmmaking itself. In order to do this, we are encouraging students to think of their practice as being part of a wider creative endeavour called ‘immersive design’. In this talk, I will explain what we mean by this and how we have begun to apply this concept from the ground up through the re-write and delivery of a Level 1 module.

Lucy Leake

Joint Programme Leader, Film at Plymouth College of Art

Je ne suis pas Charlie

Plymouth College of Art film students are encouraged to experiment with short film ideas throughout their three years with us, in response to themes, aesthetics, technologies and film texts explored in class sessions.  In response to the Charlie Hebdo attack in January this year, a group of three second year BA (Hons) Film students made a short (4:20m) film called Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie. The film plays with audience expectation, and is a remarkably powerful short.

However, it raised a number of questions around ethics;

1. Is it acceptable to show Islamic prayer ritual on screen?

2. How might this be received by a mixed audience?

3. How could students create a scene of terror in an urban street, without causing a scene of terror in an urban street?

4. The title itself is contentious, in a climate where support for Charlie Hebdo came under the banner of “Je Suis Charlie”

Interestingly the students addressed all these issues and more.

3.30pm Tea/Coffee

4pm Keynote Speaker Rod Stoneman

Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. Before coming to NUI Galway, he was Chief Executive of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board and previously a Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 Television.

Towards a Different Future

In an overdue discussion the current challenges facing practice-based film training, Rod Stoneman examines the history, impact, and significance of film education. Film training has historically focused on the cultivation of the film-maker as a cultural activist, artist, or intellectual – fostering creativity and innovation. But more recently a narrower approach has emerged, placing a new emphasis on technical training for the industry. Arguing for a more imaginative engagement and understanding of the broader social importance of film and television, he proposes that critical analysis and production should be connected. There is a political and aesthetic critique of the instrumentalism of some practice-based approaches – we may examine the possibilities for different futures in the digital era.

5pm Drinks