A new report has been released ahead of the National Film and Television School (NFTS) 50th anniversary, the reveals its graduates are meeting the demand for talent, according to Screen Daily.
There have been nearly 4,000 graduates from the NFTS since it opened in 1971, who have collected 450 Bafta nominations collectively. The NFTS has also been awarded BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema and the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2018.
The report reveals that 97 per cent of the biggest inward-investment films made since 2015 had NFTS graduates involved in the productions. The recent Stars Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker had 17 NFTS alumni, including production sound mixer Stuart Wilson and art director Patrick Harris. The Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins is an NTFS graduate.
The school runs more behind-the-camera courses than any other film school in the world from directing and cinematography to specialisms including script supervision and production accounting. The NFTS has also become much more diverse, with one in four recent graduates from BAME backgrounds, a stark difference to the 3 per cent in the industry overall.
The Graduate Impact Report, which was compiled by OC&C Strategy Consultants, stated that over half of the UK’s biggest box office successes in the last five years had the involvement of at least one NFTS graduate.
“No other single education institution or scheme can point to a record of accomplishment that has delivered talent and skills for the industry on the scale of the NFTS,” said the school’s director Jon Wardle.
“Our success is totally disproportionate to our small size and I couldn’t be prouder of what the School and its graduates have achieved. Moving forward, we will continue our mission which is to produce the people that power production both in the UK and globally.”
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