(Image: 2014 winners)
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Scotland (BAFTA Scotland) has announced the nominations for the British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards 2015. The annual awards ceremony recognises, inspires and celebrates emerging practitioners from all over Scotland and gives up-and-coming screen industry talent an all-important platform to showcase their work to the wider industry. Thirty nine nominees have been selected across 13 categories by juries made up of industry professionals.
The winners will be unveiled at a glittering awards ceremony held at The Arches, Glasgow, on Thursday 9 April and will be hosted by author, broadcaster and journalist, Muriel Gray. The winners from each category will go on to compete for the ultimate award of Best New Work, supported by Channel 4, a prestigious title clinched last year by Factual winner, Finding Family.
Jude MacLaverty, Director of BAFTA Scotland, said: “BAFTA Scotland continues to be dedicated to nurturing emerging talent in Scotland and we were overwhelmed by the incredible quality of entrants to this year’s British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards. These nominations show that there is no shortage of talent in Scotland today and we look forward to unveiling the winners in April.”
Tickets to the British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards ceremony and after party will be on sale Monday 23 March, priced £20, and can be bought via www.tickets.bafta.org. See below for the full list of nominees:
ACTOR supported by The Woven Thread
LEWIS BAXTER Tide
DARREN CONNELL Scot Squad
NICK IKUNDA Happy Together
ACTRESS
HANNAH ORD Last Night in Edinburgh
GEORGIA RAYMOND A Love Divided
ASHLEY SMITH Scot Squad
ANIMATION
DOMESTIC APPLIANCES Lewis Firth Bolton – Edinburgh College of Art
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES Kieran Duncan, Tom Paxton, Steph Flynn, Phillip Vaughan – Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
SEPARATE LIVES Mayra Hernandez Rios, Jared Taylor, Aleksandra Kovač – Edinburgh College of Art
CAMERA/PHOTOGRAPHY
STEVEN CAMERON FERGUSON Sick
IAN FORBES Seahorse
ANDREW O’CONNOR The Still Heart Beating
COMPOSER supported by PRS for Music
RICHY CAREY Lichtspiel: Opus I
AMIN KESHMIRI The Scribbler
ALIA E. TORRIE When the Tide Comes In
DESIGN
ANTHONY DEVINE Boat
MARINA MACLEAN Waitress
FRANCES COLLIER Whistle My Lad
DRAMA
LAST NIGHT IN EDINBURGH Bita Shafipour, Chris Boyd – Sociarts Productions/Seventh Crow
PATATA TORTILLA Ben Sharrock, Irune Gurtubai – Edinburgh Napier University/Screen Academy Scotland/Caravan Cinema/REC
THE SCRIBBLER Kurosh Kani, Hannah Smith, Jennifer Barrie – The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
EDITOR supported by Edit 123
ALLY BHATIA Waitress
BENJAMIN COOK The Scribbler
ARTUR ZAREMBA Our Father
ENTERTAINMENT
THE CYCLIST Sarah Grant – Dream To Screen/Media Trust/ Cineworld Foundation/Jack Petchey Foundation
MIDDLE MAN Charlie Francis, Katie White – Falkirk Girl On Film
THE WEE ‘HINGS Iain Henderson, Stuart Jackson, Laura Briggs, Shaun Dempsey – Glasgow Clyde College/Creative Loop
FACTUAL
AFTER THE CRASH Tomasz Motyka – AlbaVideo
LATE NIGHT IN GLASGOW Kurosh Kani, Dayna Baptie, Louise Dawson – The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
MARTY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Martyn Robertson, Ian Bustard – Urbancroft Films/ Bustard Productions
GAME
LEILA AND THE LITTLE FOLK Bruce Lamond – Shinymonkey
REVENANT Stuart Tait, Ellen Brown, Mark Thompson, Vince Finlayson – Blank Canvas
SEEK Vimarsh Raina, Amy Stevens, Jessica Hider, Christopher Dickson – FivePixels
SOUND
RICHY CAREY Phonic Imagery
CHRIS GAYNE Anna
KEVIN WALLS Identical
WRITER supported by Creative Scotland
GILLIAN PARK Flotsam
JAMES PRICE Dropping Off Michael
BEN SHARROCK Patata Tortilla
BEST NEW WORK supported by Channel 4
Each category winner automatically goes through for consideration in Best New Work. One of the 13 category winners will go on to win this prestigious award.
Good luck to all of the nominees!
