The NFTS was alive with excitement and warmth as NFTS students welcomed Oscar-winning Production Sound Mixer Mark Ulano to deliver an engaging and inspirational masterclass and Q&A session. Mark, who has over 140 credits to his name, is famed for his production sound design work for films such as Kill Bill, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Titanic - for which he won an Academy Award for ‘Best Sound’.

We are extremely proud of our Games department which has received no fewer than three nominations in this year’s Grads in Games Awards! The School is nominated in the following categories: ‘Educational Institution’; ‘Industry Collaboration’ for the School’s work with Supermassive Games and ‘Student Game’ for Misfolded by recent NFTS Games Design and Development MA grad, Tim Kaufmann.

Welcome to our latest NFTS story, a series of blogs featuring our alumni talking about where they were before they came to the School and where they are now (follow the series by using the #NFTSStories hashtag across Twitter and Instagram). Gillian Simpson graduated from the Digital Effects MA in 2017 and has since worked on Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs.

Representatives from the AHRC Creative Industries Clusters programmes, many of whom are focussed on immersive storytelling projects themselves were invited to take part in a specially created StoryFutures Academy Writer’s Lab: Creative Clusters Collaborations.