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What our Alumni have gone on to...
In the past two decades, a number of notable film makers and animators have graduated from the International Film School Wales (IFSW). They include the multi-award winning film maker Justin Kerrigan, whose debut film Human Traffic was widely acclaimed. More recently, film graduate Asif Kapadia scooped two BAFTA awards for The Warrior, his first feature film.
Other graduates have received nominations and awards for their film and animation work at the Celtic Film and Television Festival, the RTS awards, the Cannes Film Festival and other international festivals and events including Thessaloniki and Norwich film festivals. Notable successes have also included John Williams, whose animation work has led him to direct music videos for bands such as Coldplay.
Former students at Swansea Institute of Higher Education have received Student of the Year awards. Grant Walker won the award in 2005 is now working in London with The Mill, a world-renowned, Oscar-winning visual effects company that worked on Gladiator and on videos and commercials for the White Stripes, Kaiser Chiefs, Kanye West, Sony, Audi and Honda.
And Glamorgan Centre for Art and Design Technology graduates have gone on to production companies worldwide. Marco Merenghi, Max Tyrie and Stephen Enticott, Sony Pictures Imageworks (USA), special effect sequences animators currently working on the latest Nicholas Cage film Ghost Rider. Tim Allen, has worked on a number of stop-motion projects including, as Lead Animator, the Warners Bros Feature, Corpse Bride. Katherine Sellar who studied as a 2D classical animator and on graduation joined Rare Computer Games - Lead Animator. BAFTA CYMRU nominated Matthew Morgan is currently employed at Aardman Animation as a Production Designer. After five years at Rare Computer Games Michael Cawood has just complete work on Warner Brothers Animated Penguin movie Happy Feet.
Scholarships and bursaries won
Ines Toharia Teran was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue artistic studies at the L Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House, New York. She applied for the scholarship while taking the MA in Film at IFSW.
Bethan Walker, a student of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) recently won one of four BBC Carleton Hobbs Radio Bursary Awards, while Daniel McLeod, another RWCMD student, was awarded the prestigious Laurence Olivier Bursary.