Alumni events
Many of our students go on to establishing themselves in the media industries. Here are some up and coming events from Goldsmiths Media and Communications alumni. If you are one such person, and would like to let others know what you are doing, please complete the alumni contact form.
Olivia Humphreys (MA Screen Documentary 2009-10)
has won the Post-Graduate Factual prize at the Royal Television Society's Student Awards on Friday 20th May for her film 'Noctuaries'. This is her graduation film from Goldsmiths, a personal film about dreams and mourning.
Luo Yi (MA Screen Documentary 2009-10)
was nominated for her graduation film 'Living Without Men' for two major awards in May 2011: the Royal Television Society Postgraduate Factual prize and the One World Media Student Award. This follows the film's selection by a number of international festivals including Yunfest in late March and the International Women's Film Festival of Seoul in April- where it won the "People's Choice" Award (audience award). It was the only non-Korean film among six awardees.
Roberta Fortuna (MA Screen Documentary 2009-10)
Roberta’s graduation film ANELLO won the 'best documentary' prize at the No Limits Film Festival, and as part of the Award, will be screened at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in June (2011)
Olivia Humphreys (MA Screen Documentary 2009-10)
was one of the winners of the 'Ideas Fund Shorts' from Ideas Tap. She has made an animation 'Oneironauts (The Dream 
Travellers)',
linked to her film ‘Noctuaries’, her graduation film from Goldsmiths.
You can watch 'Oneironauts' on Vimeo
Kathleen McCaul (MA Radio 2004-05)
From Goldsmiths, via Baghdad, Srinagar to Coventry, New Delhi, Mumbai, Knightsbridge, Doha to Rio de Janeiro….
Daily Telegraph, BBC, Guardian, and Al Jazeera
And now…MURDER IN THE ASHRAM
Kathleen McCaul freelanced for the BBC World Service while on the MA Radio course and has had posts at BBC Coventry (multi-faith producer) and Al Jazeera (producer). She has worked in Baghdad, Doha and Srinagar, Kashmir, worked as a freelance foreign correspondent in India. She has also written and produced features online, radio and tv for BBC World Service, Guardian Media and Al Jazeera. Her first crime novel 'Murder in the Ashram' has just been published.
Vicki Psarias (MA Television Drama 2002-03),
(BA Media and Communications 1999-02) 
Vicki won The Square Mile Magazine Worldspreads 30 under 30 London Talent Awards, sponsored by CNN, celebrating exceptional talent (in the category Entertainment, Media and the Arts) for her writing and directing work, (25 March, 2011).
Fathima Nizaruddin (MA Screen Documentary 2009-10) 
Fathima’s graduation film “Talking Heads [muslim women]” has been selected for showing by three festivals in 2011: the 6th ViBGYOR International Film Festival, to be held in Thrissur, Kerala, India from 12 to 16 January; the Official Competitive Section of the VII International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra “Punto de Vista” in Pamplona (Spain), 22 to 27 February; and the Filmmor Women’s Film Festival, Istanbul in the second week of March.
Olivia Humphreys (MA Screen Documentary 2009-10)
won the Best Documentary prize at the Exposures film festival in Manchester (16-18 November, 2010) for her film ‘Noctuaries’, her graduation film from Goldsmiths – a personal film about dreams and mourning.
Jennifer Fearnley (MA Screen Documentary 2008-9)
won the Royal Television Society’s STUDENT TELEVISION AWARDS 2009 in the POSTGRADUATE FACTUAL CATEGORY, for 'Stuck on the Edge'. Her film - about a "remarkable 100 year old woman" was described by the judges as a “great character with a sense of humour, pathos and marvellous content.”
Marianne Hougen-Moraga ( MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) has been invited to show her film about her uncle, "Little Revolution" at the Refuge in Films Festival, hosted by BFI Southbank. The festival aims to raise awareness about refugee and migrant issues. Screening: 11 am, Saturday 19 June at 11.00 am.
Alex Mattholie ( MA Screen Documentary 2008-9) Has had two of the films she made at Goldsmiths selected for showing at the London International Documentary Festival: 'Shenggy is Born to
Go' on Monday 3rd May 2010,18:30 pm at Rich Mix 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road E1 6LA - and 'The Ferryman' on Wednesday 5th May 2010 at 20:00 pm at 'The Horse Hospital' - 30 Colonnade WC1N 1HX.
See www.lidf.co.uk
Flavia Guerra ( MA Screen Documentary 2008-9)
Has been awarded an an Honorable Mention at 'It`s All True' Film Festival in Brazil, for her film "Karl Max Way" - a portrait of a
Brazilian 'motoboy' (motorcycle courier) working in London. The festival organisers told Flavia that they invented this prize
especially for her film this year because 'they couldn't help giving a prize for a film that reveals so well the Brazilian and the English
soul and reality in the same story'.
Marianne Hougen-Moraga ( MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) has won the "Minga D'Or " prize at the first women's film festival in Cameroun, Central Africa - "Mis Me Binga: Festival International de Films de Femmes" - for her film about her uncle, "Little Revolution". The "Minga D'Or" is an award for best documentary.
Gabriella Kessler ( MA Screen Documentary 2005-6)worked as an assistant editor and translator on 'The Kings of Pastry', directed by the renowned US filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. It is currently airing on BBC4, Thursday 18th March at 9pm and again on Sunday 21st at 10pm.Here is some more info on the film:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rhbcv
Olivia Humphreys ( MA Screen Documentary 2009-10)
has had her film 'Latecomers' selected for the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, with a feature length doc called 'Regretters': http://www.bfi.org.uk/llgff/films/europe/262
Jennifer Fearnley ( MA Screen Documentary 2008-9)
has won no less than 3 prizes at Exposures, the UK’s largest festival of student moving image work, which took place in Manchester from November 17-19 2009. Her graduation film 'Stuck on the Edge' won the Programmers Choice Award, The Audience Award and was joint winner of the Grand Jury Award. Photos and awards will be posted on the Exposures website soon:
www.exposuresfilmfestival.co.uk
Marie Bryant ( MA Screen Documentary 2007-8)
Marie's film "Life on the Grave Side" will be screening as part of
The London United Film Festival on 5 December 2009 (Saturday), 1:00pm at the Prince Charles Cinema - it will be shown before the feature length film "Park".
www.princecharlescinema.com
www.theunitedfest.com/london
Melissa Gomez ( MA Screen Documentary 2007-8) 
has had her film graduation film "Share and Share Alike" selected for screening at the Caribbean Tales Film Festival on 11 July 2009. For details of the festival see: www.caribbeantales.ca.
Tim De Vere Green and Mauro Lombardi (MA Screen Documentary 2007-8)
have had their graduation films ('The Poverty Ladder' & 'Boomchucka') selected for showing on the TAG ('international dialogue about society') website from the The Amsterdam Group. 'The Poverty Ladder' is about a micro-credit organisation in Kenya, & 'Boomchucka' features a circus troupe traveling through Egypt, Palestine and Israel. See: www.lemosandcrane.co.uk/theamsterdamgroup/
Line Blom (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) and Rachael Flynn and Salma Gaj (2007-8)
contributed films to the the Goldsmiths' Company's CREATION II Exhibition of the 'modern artist-jeweller' which runs til 11 July at Goldsmiths Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN. Rachael Flynn was awarded a prize by Paul Watson (Excecutive Producer of the Films) for her work.
Ralph Perring (MA Screen Documentary 2001-2)
is series director on 'Sea Patrol' (Wall to Wall Media) screening from 6th July on National Geographic Channel, also on Channel 5 in September.
Bruno Natal ( MA Screen Documentary 2007-8)is launching a DVD of his film 'Dub Echoes' at a star studded event on Sunday 10th May at Café 1001, Brick Lane. This all-day affair kicks
off at 3pm with an official screening of the multi award winning documentary and panel discussion with director Bruno Natal + guests followed by an evening of Roots Reggae, Dub, and Dancehall from Don Letts and Adrian Sherwood with Dubstep from Cotti & Cluekid and the legendary Soul Jazz Records Sound System, hosted by MC Oxman.
The DVD is available from http://www.dubechoes.com/ and you can see a trailer for it on http://www.vimeo.com/3786770
Marie Bryant ( MA Screen Documentary 2007-8)
has recently won two awards for her graduation project LIFE ON THE GRAVE SIDE ( an intimate portrait of Abney Park Cemetery and of those who frequent this extraordinary Victorian burial ground in North London):
1. Best Short Documentary (UK) at the London Independent Film Festival - April 2009
2. the Royal Television Society's Student Television Awards 2008 in the Postgraduate Factual category - announced May 8th 2009, beating 2 strong contenders from the National Film & Television School. The Jury commented: "What marked out this beautifully edited film was the quality of the relationships the film-maker made with the subjects - she got under the skin of the lost and lonely, the abandoned and the downright aggressive."
Minou Norouzi (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) is exhibiting work at PHOTOCINEMA, part of the Format International Photography in Derby. From film still to still film the theme for FORMAT09 is positioned in the half-light between these two narrative and technical sensibilities, colliding - fact with fiction, historicism with fantasy, and reality with the cinematic. The festival contains the work of artists (including David Lynch) who extend the 'still' image in time through the use of photo-narrative sequencing, directed or documentary photography and moving image from single still to feature film. See www.formatfestival.com
Gillian Pachter (MA Screen Documentary 2001-2) has filmed and directed a programme on home repossessions:REPOSSESSED - BBC1, 10.35pm Tuesday 6th January 2009
Maria Eduarda Andrade (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) has been awarded the 4Talent Magazine Award for Short Documentary. They write: "From the slums of Sao Paulo to the bright lights of London, a commitment to documenting untold stories has reaped rewards for 26-year-old Maria - a London-based Brazilian film-maker, who can add her 4Talent gong to a Royal Television Society Award, and the scholarship to study Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths that brought her to Britain in the first place. The 26-year-old hails from a town called Recife in North East Brazil. 'A city by the sea', she tells me wistfully: "28 degrees in the winter; nice and warm." It's a world away from the setting of the work she describes as her 'baby' her touching directorial debut, 'Just Like Mom'. ('Just Like Mom' was Maria's Final Project at Goldsmiths). See www.4talentmagazine.com/tag/4talent-awards
Edson Costa (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) is the the winner of this year's Current Pitch with his idea "Letters From Prison". The Current Pitch is organised by Current TV in asssociation with Sheffield Docfest. This year's was held at Docfest's Newcomer's Day on November 6th. They've commissioned Edson to make his film for Current's crime season next March so look out for it on the channel!http://uk.current.tv/
Luciano Zubillaga (MA Screen Documentary 1999-7) has been selected to receive funding to produce new work through the 2008 London Artists’s Film and Video Awards (LAFVA), one of the largest UK awards scheme of its kind, which is supported by Film London in partnership with Arts Council England.Luciano’s Project MUSIC FOR A MISSING FILM is a single screen work for cinema, which explores notions of place, collective cultural memory and restoration. Set in London, Caracas and Miami, the project involves working with the remnants of a controversial art film, originally made in Caracas, in 1963. All trace of this film has since been lost. All that remains is the original music, the film script, 35mm film footage and the memories of those who saw the film over forty years ago.
Maria Eduarda Andrade and Isabel Rodriguez (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) won the Royal Television Society‘s STUDENT TELEVISION AWARDS 2007 in the POSTGRADUATE FACTUAL CATEGORY, for ’Just Like Mom’ (directed by Maria and edited by Isabel). At the award presentation on 16 May 2008 the film was described by the judges as "a raw, vivid film that took you on a journey deep into the lives and troubles of three generations of one family in Brazil. You never knew what was coming next, it had so many twists and surprises, but at its heart this film has a compassion for the women prepared to let us in on their darkest moments. Clearly a powerful bond of trust had been formed between the film-maker and her damaged but dignified subjects."
A 13 minute clip from the film can be viewed on on line at www.vimeo.com.
Ralph Perring ( MA Screen Documentary 2001-2) is Series Producer on a new series - The Police Interceptors - going out on Fridays at 8pm on Channel 5.
Minou Norouzi (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) has been invited to screen her graduation film ‘Anatomy of Failure’ at the prestigious HotDocs festival in Canada this month. HotDocs describe the film as ‘a fascinating study of the power of myth and personality’.
Dalia Al Kury (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7) has just made a film for Al-Arabyia called ‘Smile! You are in South Lebanon’: an intimate and vibrant family portrait, which shows the potency of the Lebanese sense of humour - a talent that has helped them cope with wars still fresh in their memory. Assistant Director and Camera on the shoot was Marianne Hougen Moraga (also MA Doc. 2006-7)Email: daliasworld at gmail dot com
Katya Nasim (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7)
Katya's graduation project - 'day x: a story of a school strike' is viewable online at Youtube.
Sally Aitken (MA Screen Documentary 1998-99)
Series producing and directing a docu-reality series in Canada, "The Week The Women Went". Adapted from a BBC format of the same name, it had its premier episode Monday 21st Jan, CBC. It’s an 8-part series - same time, same channel for 8 weeks. See www.cbc.ca/thewomenwent.
Mono Ghose (MA Script Writing 2004-5)New internet start-up company: Mavericks Film is a leading emerging media production company working in short and long form entertainment. Mavericks are always on the look out for talented film and media experts.
Maggie Innes (MA Script Writing 2003-4)Script Writer
"An Exercise In Truth" episode of ’Doctors’
BBC 1, Monday March 3 at 1.40pm.
More information at BBC.
Bruno Natal (MA Screen Documentary 2006-7)
Filmed, produced & directed “Dub Echoes” feature documentary. So, after over three years in the making, "Dub Echoes" was finally shown to the public. The world premiere took place in November, in two sold out sessions (one of them followed by a dub party) during Denmark’s CPH:DOX Festival 2007.
www.dubechoes.com // www.youtube.com
Laura Stevens (MA Script Writing 2003-4)Writer
“Thin Toes” play
Pleasance Theatre, Islington
Weaver Hughes Ensemble
Wednesday 20 February - Sunday 16 March (Tue - Sun) 7.45pm (5.15pm Sun)
Art, anorexia and exhibitionism collide
More info: www.pleasance.co.uk
Rose Chamberlain (MA Screen Documentary 2002-3) in September 2006 launched The FILMFESTIVAL Magazine, renamed last July to 'Film & Festivals'- featuring the latest news in the world of UK and international film festivals and independent filmmaking. The latest issue contains interviews with Paul Andrew Williams, Charlize Theron, John Sayles and Nik Powell, a debate on the value of film school plus previews and reports from US, UK, European and Asian film festivals.www.filmandfestivals.com
David Newton was a Media and Communications student who specialized in animation. He graduated from Goldsmiths in 2004 and is now a successful animator.In the second year of his degree course he produced an animation entitled 'Bayeux Tapestry', on a 10-day course working with tutor Graham Young. This four minute animation has gone on to do great things for David! It has subsequently been screened at the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) and the London International Animation Festival (LIAF). It is currently in the top 100 favourites on You Tube and has very recently been requested by the prestigious Annecy 08, a prestigious international animation festival that takes place annually in France.
Megan Kieran was a Media and Communications student who specialized in Electronic Graphics and Animation. During the 3rd year of her course, Megan produced an experimental video called ‘Panic’ working with tutor Jane Stobart. The theme of the piece was an inventive and personal response to the subject of panic attacks.Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 2007, ‘Panic’ has been singled out for two prestigious film festivals. In November 07 it was screened at the Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol. In February 08 it was shown at the Nahemi ‘Eat Our Shorts 2008’ student film festival at the BFI Southbank.