The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Scotland (BAFTA Scotland) has today announced the nominations for the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards 2016.
The annual awards ceremony recognises, inspires and celebrates the diverse array of 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.
36 nominations have been selected across 12 categories by juries made up of industry professionals.
The winners will be unveiled at a glittering awards ceremony held for the first time at Drygate Brewery, Glasgow, on Thursday 14 April and will be hosted by author, broadcaster and journalist, Muriel Gray.
The winners from each category will go on to compete for the prestigious award of Best New Work, supported by Channel 4, a title clinched last year by BAFTA Scholarship recipient, Steven Cameron Ferguson, for his work on the short film, Sick.
Among last year’s winners was 12-year-old Hannah Ord, who won the Actress award for her role in short film Last Night in Edinburgh, while the Entertainment award was given to The Wee ‘Hings, a short film commissioned by the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony that was screened to over 40,000 people at Celtic Park before the Games began.
Jude MacLaverty, Director of BAFTA Scotland, said:
“Year upon year, the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards is inundated with spectacular work from new and emerging practitioners from across Scotland and this year was no different. As always, BAFTA Scotland is dedicated to nurturing the overwhelming level of talent throughout the country and this ceremony is a chance for our nominees to showcase their incredible work to industry bodies. We’re excited to be celebrating at a new venue this April and look forward to unveiling our 2016 winners.”
Tickets to the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards ceremony and after party will be on sale today, priced £25, and can be bought here.
-- A LIST OF THE NOMINATIONS FOLLOWS BELOW --
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BAFTA SCOTLAND NEW TALENT AWARDS 2016:
NOMINATIONS
ACTING PERFORMANCE FEMALE
LILY GRAHAM Take Your Partners
SARAH MIELE Grimm Street
CLARE SHEERIN Perfect Strangers
ACTING PERFORMANCE MALE supported by The Woven Thread
DANIEL CAMERON I Am Me
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN Open Mike
NATHAN MCHALLAM Crowman
ANIMATION
THE ARMADILLO AND THE EARWIG Benjamin Cresswell
THE LAST DAY Muqing Shu, Dongjian Ji, Terry Peng - Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh
NINA & FLICK Vera Babida, Robert Duncan
CAMERA/PHOTOGRAPHY supported by Progressive
KRIS KUBIK Dipper from the Water of Leith
CHARLIE ROSE Grout Pray
MIHAIL URSU No Place Like Home
COMPOSER supported by PRS for Music
ATZI MURAMATSU The Violinist
YOANN MYLONAKIS Lemuria
TOMMY REILLY The Beholder
DESIGN supported by MCL Create
LOLA-BLANCHE HIGGINS Grout Pray
JANINE KOPPE Blue Hour
CARA ROXBURGH Tuesday
DRAMA supported by Tunnocks
HULA Robin Haig, Lindsay McGee, Mandy Lee, Claire Nicol - Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University
LUCID Lucy Joan Barnes, Beth Woodruff, Nils Gustenhofen - Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh College of Art
STARFISH Louise Dawson, Dayna Baptie, Fergus Thom - The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
EDITOR supported by Edit 123
JONATHON BULTER - Open Mike
WAYNE MAZADZA - Microcosm
MICHAL WDOWIAK - Yogi
ENTERTAINMENT supported by Bees Nees Media
JAMES MORRISON VERSUS Jordan Laird, Ian Greenhill - Something Something
LAST EXIT TO RICKLESBURGH Russell Miller, Chris Miller, Stuart Condy - Toasted Motion Films, Arpeggio Pictures
PAPERCLIP Kevin Murray - Glasgow School of Art
FACTUAL supported by Raise the Roof Productions
DEAR PETER Scott Willis, Josh Sabin - Aarol Films
KNOX Murdo Macleod, Philip Todd - Trinity Digital
THE THIRD DAD Theresa Moerman Ib - SDI Productions
SOUND
DONALD DAWSON Bomber Boys: Prisoners of Time
SEAN HALL The Legend of Hammerfall
GABY YÁNEZ Lemuria
WRITER supported by Creative Scotland
JOHNNY HERBIN Electric Faces
MICHAL WDOWIAK Yogi
CHARLOTTE WELLS Tuesday