SELECT COURSE -------------------------- --MA COURSES Cinematography Composing For Film and Television Digital Post Production Directing Animation Directing Documentary Directing Fiction Editing Producing Producing and Directing Television Entertainment Production Design Screenwriting SFX/VFX Sound Design for Film and Television --------------------- --DIPLOMA COURSES Production Management Script Development Sound Recording for Film and Television ---------------------- --OCCASIONAL COURSES Directors Series Summerdocs: A Summer School in Documentary Direction --------------------- --SHORT COURSES Documentary Drama Business Skills Camera & Sound Editing Craft & Technical Multiplatform

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Peque Varela

Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Scholar 2005
UIP Scholar 2006

I grew up in Ferrol, a small town on the coast of Galicia, Spain. There I spent my school days doodling and from the moment my Dad came home with a videocamera I could not stop filming my family and making short videos with friends. Looking to broaden my horizons, when I was 19 I decided to go to London for three months... that was ten years ago.

A degree in Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster involved photography, video, film and digital image and gave me an overview of the different approaches to filmmaking. I decided that my ideas and graphic skills were most suited to animation, and spent the following years gaining more experience by working in different roles on a number of animation and live action films.

At the NFTS, I’ve concentrated on developing my storytelling and broadening my animation skills. I have also benefited from the help of my mentor Phil Mulloy and had the opportunity to animate and direct two art breaks for MTV. I am now looking for opportunities to develop my own films as well as working commercially in the animation industry.

Films at the NFTS include...

1977   Stuttgart International Animation Festival - Winner, Best Short Film; Chicago International Film Festival 
Façade    
Phace
Robot (MTV ident)
Car People (MTV ident)
The Tailor's Kiss (assistant animator)
Lightman (assistant animator)

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