MA COURSES
Directing Documentary
The NFTS has a tradition of enabling documentary filmmakers to find a distinctive voice that both prepares them for the Industry and makes their work a force for changing it. This course provides the space and time for students to transform their raw talent and commitment into the skill and confidence to take on the world.

Graduates include Nick Broomfield, who pioneered a powerful new genre in documentary: the filmmaker-as-
provocateur – and is now applying his documentary experience to fiction; and Kim Longinotto, whose inspirational films about women are celebrated at festivals around the world. Both help tutor the course, along with other distinguished filmmakers, many of them NFTS graduates.

Getting a first commission can be a daunting task in a crowded freelance industry, but our new documentary graduates have an excellent record of success and diversity in the films they make. Recent graduates have made many films for the 3 Minute Wonder slot and pitch for the new talent strand on Channel 4, and for development deals at the BBC. Some have put together co-production deals to produce feature documentaries for the BBC’s prestigious Storyville strand. Graduation films screen at festivals around the world, winning awards such as the Jerwood Newcomers Award, the Becks Futures Prize, the Royal Television Society's Student Award and the Grierson Awards Best Newcomer nominations.