2005
BA Media & Communications
Royal Television Society Student Awards The London Animation Award went to Will Compton-Howlett for The Beginning. Runner up was Ceiran Bell with her third year final production Baobab.
The London Factual Award went to Francesca Walker, Rosy Offord, Jon Olafsson & Thomas Mills for Straight Edge their third year final production. Runners up were Lauren Flett, Cecilie Henschein, Hayley Cook and Douglas Belford for Elder Abuse their third year final production.
Bayeux Tapestry an animation by second year student David Newton (tutor: Graham Young) was selected for screening at the London International Animation Festival (LIAF) and the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF). LIAF ran from August 23rd to the 28th 2005 at The Curzon Cinema in Soho, London.
Fragile won Best Short Drama at the Royal Television Society, London Awards at Channel 4. The student filmmakers were: Hayley Gelling - Writer; Calixte Davis - Director; Louise Penrose - Producer; Ruanne Abou-Rahme - Sound Designer; Gavin Turnbull - Cinematographer; Aleksey Gurkin - Lighting Designer; Wesley Horan - Editor.
Fragile was chosen for screening in the Best of British Student Films selection at the Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival in Bristol, November 2005. The film was also selected as winner of the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography.
Fragile was also screened (alongside other Goldsmiths productions) at the Short Ends World Film Schools Festival at the ICA in November 2005, and at the NAHEMI Eat Our Shorts Festival at the NFT in December 2005.
The script for Fragile won the Goldsmiths Media Best Short Screenplay Competition in 2003 and was broadcast by the BBC as part of their Homegrown Hollywood season in July 2005.
MA Radio
Katharine Begg won the Linda Gage Award at the Student Radio Awards ceremony on 24 November 2005.
Ally Barnard (2003-2004) won a Finalist Award for Best Human Interest programme at the 2005 International Radio Festival of New York for Twenty First.
Mike Wendling won the Press Gazette Student Radio Journalist of the Year Award on 9 September 2005. Three other MA Radio students were shortlisted: Kathleen McCaul (Best Scoop, Best Online Journalism, Best Radio Journalism), Lucy Coward (Best Radio Journalism) & Jessica Roscoe (Best Radio Journalism)
MA Screen Documentary
Rob John's film for his MA in Screen Documentary, Meet me in the Rothko Room was one of 3 nominated for the Royal Televisions Society's Student Award in the Postgraduate Factual Category. Rob was up against 2 films from the NFTS, one of which won the award, but has done very well to get this far. The competition is open to all postgraduate film courses in the UK and Europe. Chairman of the judges, the documentary filmmaker Paul Watson, described his film as an 'art film without experts, which was as carefully crafted and abstracted as a Rothko painting, Mark Rothko would have approved'.
Carola Hesse's film shot in a Bedouin community in the Negev desert has been awarded a One World Broadcasting Trust travel bursary.
MA Screen Drama
Look out for ex-graduate Peter Mackie Burn's film Milk which won a Golden Bear at the 2005 Berlin Festival. It is currently doing the rounds of cinemas as part of Future Shorts October 2005 programme.
MA Journalism
Kate Hodal was the runner up in the student journalist of the year award organised by the Periodical Training Council.