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MA student wins RTS North West award
Date: Nov 22, 2011
A film made by a student on the University of Salford’s MA course in Wildlife Documentary has won a prestigious Royal Television Society North West award.
Where the Wild Things Were, a documentary on the wildlife found in Scotland’s forests and hills produced and directed by Amber Eames, won the Best Low Budget
Programme award at the special Manchester Hilton Hotel event.
The RTS North West award was the latest of a string of honours for 'Where the Wild Things Were' (below) which also picked up 'Best Cinematography' and 'Best Documentary' from a record number of entries at Screentest, the National Student Film Festival earlier in the year.
Part of the University’s Wildtrack series of wildlife documentaries shown on Channel M, the film was one of three awards entries from students on MA courses in TV and Wildlife Documentary.
MA student Matt Hamilton was shortlisted in the Best Factual Series category for Summer Secrets of the Itchen Navigation, also part of the Wildtrack series, while Now That You’re Gone, a personal and introspective film exploring perceptions of death in an Irish Catholic family, produced by Alan Dukes and directed by Johan Jakobson, was up for the Best Production (Craft) title.
John Sweeney, manager of the University’s International Media Centre, said: “This award is a testament to the extremely high standard of programmes that our students are producing, particularly for Channel M.
“Wildtrack especially has consistently delivered professional quality programmes on low budgets and it is very rewarding when a prestigious organisation such as RTS acknowledges this quality.”
The MAs in Wildlife Documentary and Television Documentary are two of 39 programmes now taught at the University’s new MediaCityUK building. Over 1,500 students can now use cutting-edge audio, video and production facilities at the facility which opened last month.
* Visit the RTS North West awards Facebook page
* Amber Eames is pictured with her RTS NW award with (left) Matt Bell, the University of Salford’s Associate Head International for the School of Media, Music & Performance and Fraser Durie, MA in Wildlife Documentary lecturer.
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