Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
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Posted on Sunday 10 March 2019
TFTV Interactive Media alumna Rebecca Saw collaborated on a VR experience with Pilot Theatre.
Posted on Friday 1 March 2019
Successful night at the Yorkshire Region Royal Television Society Student Awards, with a total of three awards altogether!
Posted on Friday 14 December 2018
Joe Lamyman, an alumni of the 2017/18 Interactive Media (IM) cohort, has received a "Highly Commended" recognition in the finals of the 2018 Rising Star award (sponsored by Bootham School) of the York Culture Awards.
Posted on Friday 30 November 2018
Linden Feng and Hannah Palumbo, former students on the BSc in Film and Television Production, have won the Best New Director at the UK Music Video Awards
Posted on Thursday 15 November 2018
Joe Lamyman, an alumni of the 2017/18 Interactive Media (IM) cohort makes it to the finals of the 2018 Rising Star award (sponsored by Bootham School) of the York Culture Awards.
Posted on Tuesday 25 September 2018
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television has placed 9th for Interactive Media in the latest Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Posted on Friday 21 September 2018
Practical demonstrator, Introduction to Media Technologies - TFT00020C, Autumn Term 2018/19
Posted on Friday 7 September 2018
University of York, Screen Yorkshire and the BFI have secured creative cluster funding to support and grow screen industries in Yorkshire and Humber
Posted on Wednesday 22 August 2018
We are delighted that our MA student, Sophie Buckley, has won this year's York's Script Factor playwriting prize, hosted at York Theatre Royal.
Posted on Friday 29 June 2018
Theatre, Film and Television 3rd year PhD researcher has been awarded HRC doctoral fellowship.
Posted on Friday 22 June 2018
Professor Duncan Petrie visited Beijing in early June to develop the department’s Chinese links. The visit took in several recruitment agents, where he promoted our current and new degree programmes.
Posted on Wednesday 2 May 2018
University of York’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television, in close collaboration with ESL, the world’s largest esports company, will launch the world’s first industry-backed module on esports content production.
Posted on Thursday 5 April 2018
Matthew Kemp, an alumni of the 2016/17 Interactive Media cohort makes it to the finals of the Grads in Games awards 2018.
Posted on Monday 12 March 2018
Dr Mariana Lopez makes AES history
Posted on Tuesday 20 February 2018
York Performance Award recipients and Department alumni are touring Nick Payne’s acclaimed play.
Posted on Wednesday 14 February 2018
Panel session to be led by Senior Lecturer and Chair of AES UK, Dr Mariana Lopez.
Posted on Tuesday 13 February 2018
Top esports professionals, commentators and celebrities joined experts at the University of York in a panel debate to discuss current trends and the future of esports.
Posted on Monday 22 January 2018
Rob Wilmot is among eight leading figures to receive an honorary degree during winter graduation.
Posted on Tuesday 12 December 2017
We are delighted to announce that the University of York's Women in Science playwriting commission has been awarded to Amy Ng.
Posted on Thursday 2 November 2017
If you go down to Castle Howard today...
Posted on Thursday 5 October 2017
Royal Television Society Bursaries 2017 awarded to TFTV students, Eve Hill and Tom Maynard.
Posted on Friday 22 September 2017
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York is delighted to announce a playwriting commission for 2017-18.
Posted on Monday 17 July 2017
We are delighted that 2nd year student Bethany White and 1st year student Edward Whyte, both on the BSc in Film and Television Production, have started their Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholarships.
Posted on Thursday 13 July 2017
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television is delighted that Charles Gurassa has been awarded an Honorary Degree.
Posted on Tuesday 27 June 2017
ESL and University of York Collaboration in Teaching and research of Esports London 27th June 2017: ESL, the world’s largest esports company, and the University of York, one of the top universities in the UK and a member of the Russell Group, are today announcing a world-first collaboration to make industry-aligned teaching and research for esports a reality.
Posted on Thursday 15 June 2017
In a collaborative media convergence project, Dr Mariana Lopez (sound design), Paul Ryan (visual effects), Roberto del Pino (set design) have worked on staging John Dryden's Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias under the direction of Professor Michael Cordner from the Department of Theatre, Film and television.
Posted on Monday 22 May 2017
Guy Schofield and Jonathan Hook, from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television have been working on a virtual reality project which forms part of a new exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum.
Posted on Wednesday 18 January 2017
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television is delighted that Sally Wainwright will be awarded an Honorary Degree.
Posted on Friday 14 October 2016
A film made by a PhD student in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television has been shortlisted for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) 2016 Research in Film Awards.
Posted on Thursday 29 September 2016
Two of our talented Film and Television Production students won a fantastic trip to LA!
Posted on Friday 15 July 2016
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television is delighted that Helen McCrory has been awarded an Honorary Degree.
Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2016
Masters production courses are eligible for BAFTA scholarships.
Posted on Thursday 25 February 2016
Student wins bursary to attend Watersprite Film Festival
Posted on Saturday 13 February 2016
Two of our graduates have made it to the quarter finals; one has gone through to the semis...
Posted on Friday 29 January 2016
Ed Gammie with Oscar and BAFTA for Interstellar
Posted on Sunday 17 January 2016
A student from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television has been selected for the prestigious Santander Digital Leaders programme.
Posted on Thursday 22 October 2015
We are pleased to announce that we are working with the China Culture Investment Group (CCIG) to develop new education and industrial training provision for overseas students.
Posted on Friday 8 May 2015
Sketching is at the root of any design activity.
Posted on Monday 20 April 2015
BAFTA might pay your fees to study TV and film at post-graduate level.
Posted on Saturday 21 February 2015
Moving Pictures and Photoplays: New Perspectives in Silent Cinema is a two day postgraduate conference, to be held on the 18th and 19th of June 2015 at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York. Proposals are welcome from postgraduate and early career researchers on any aspect relating to silent cinema and film industry of the silent period.
Posted on Monday 27 October 2014
A feature film produced as a result of a unique academic-industry partnership is flying the flag for UK independent film-makers with screenings at international film festivals in Europe.
Posted on Friday 3 October 2014
Theatre, Film and Television graduates Andy Lake and Christian Smith were once stars of York Student Television with their sitcom Humble Pie. Now they are back filming more episodes with ambitions of reaching a much larger internet audience.
Posted on Tuesday 9 September 2014
Department's new Interactive Media degree wins support from software industry leaders
Posted on Wednesday 3 September 2014
Talented student filmmakers from the University of York will showcase their work to leading members of the British film industry at the Vue Cinema in Piccadilly, London as part of the Raindance Film Festival 2014.
Posted on Wednesday 27 August 2014
This one day symposium, organised by Dr Kristyn Gorton in July 2014, focused on stories and storytelling in the North of England as well as constructions of 'Northern Englishness' in stories for the screen.
Posted on Wednesday 27 August 2014
The Special Issue: Perspectives on Sound Design (The New Soundtrack Journal, Edinburgh University Press) Guest Edited by Dr Sandra Pauletto is now published
Posted on Friday 4 July 2014
Dr Gavin Kearney awarded grant from EPSRC
Posted on Thursday 5 June 2014
Invitation to attend a book launch in London on Thursday 19 June 2014 - 6.30 - 8.30pm at The London Film School
Posted on Friday 30 May 2014
All our students graduating in July 2014 are invited to a Graduation Reception after the ceremony.
Posted on Tuesday 18 March 2014
A talented student filmmaker from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television wins top award at the international Watersprite Film Festival
Posted on Tuesday 4 March 2014
Third year theatre students from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television will this week stage two of the liveliest and most accessible comic masterpieces from seventeenth-century France, in vivid and brilliant modern translations in the state-of-the-art scenic stage theatre.
Posted on Thursday 27 February 2014
Extra Date in York: Friargate Theatre on 11 March 2014 at 7.30pm including post show discussion with Cast and Writer-Directors
Posted on Tuesday 18 February 2014
Employment success for recent Theatre, Film and Television graduate
Posted on Friday 14 February 2014
The University of York is hosting a hands-on visual effects course aimed at tutors delivering VFX teaching at UK institutions.
Posted on Tuesday 11 February 2014
Fifty BA theatre students to work alongside top theatre professionals
Posted on Wednesday 5 February 2014
New lab boosts groundbreaking interactive media research
Posted on Wednesday 5 February 2014
Tanya Ronder author of Vernon God Little will be with the Department of Theatre, Film and Television on Friday 7 February 2014 at 5.45pm
Posted on Thursday 30 January 2014
The recent success of Danish crime series such as 'The Killing' and 'The Bridge' has left many wondering, why do some European film and television dramas travel better than others?
Posted on Tuesday 17 December 2013
Graduate filmmakers from the University of York have scooped three major awards at the Monaco International Film Festival for a short film they created as part of their degree.
Posted on Tuesday 17 December 2013
HRH The Duke of Cambridge meets one of our students at BAFTA...
Posted on Tuesday 26 November 2013
Red carpet experience for award winning Department of Theatre, Film and Television Graduate.
Posted on Tuesday 26 November 2013
A music video by a recent University of York graduate is being showcased as part of the 2013 BBC Music Video Festival - an online celebration of new and emerging music acts and film directors working in the field.
Posted on Thursday 21 November 2013
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Students win awards
Posted on Monday 4 November 2013
A special Masterclass exploring stage presence.
Posted on Monday 28 October 2013
National success for York's Department of Theatre, Film and Television
Posted on Wednesday 16 October 2013
The department invites applications for AHRC-funded doctoral studentships, to start in on our PhD programme from October 2014.
Posted on Monday 14 October 2013
Thrills! Tears! Guffaws! But enough about me - here's the new Film Club timetable.
Posted on Friday 4 October 2013
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Masters Student is to receive the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games
Posted on Friday 27 September 2013
TFTV PhD student Jonathan Carr's feature documentary, My Brother the Ark Raider, is to be screened on BBC Alba on Thursday, October 3 at 9pm.
Posted on Tuesday 24 September 2013
Talented student film-makers from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television will showcase their work to leading members of the British film industry at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Posted on Wednesday 18 September 2013
Two Department of Theatre, Film and Television students have been nominated for the Bill Vinten GTC University Award
Posted on Wednesday 18 September 2013
Rosy Deacon wins Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award
Posted on Friday 6 September 2013
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Students have fun as extras in Series Two of the Last Tango in Halifax
Posted on Friday 2 August 2013
This Autumn, our Student Theatre Society is staging Laura Wade’s play, Colder Than Here
Posted on Friday 2 August 2013
Our final year students will be performing two plays by celebrated playwright and University of York graduate, Simon Stephens.
Posted on Thursday 25 July 2013
Two of the department's lecturers have joined a PhD student in founding a theatre company
Posted on Wednesday 29 May 2013
One of the greatest Jacobean comedies, John Marston’s masterpiece weaves together tales of sexual obsession, clever con-tricks, and radical freethinking into a striking plot which leads two of its characters to the foot of the gallows.
Posted on Friday 17 May 2013
Third year PhD by Practice Playwriting student Hannah Davies' play Githa (★★★★ The Scotsman ★★★★ Three Weeks) receives run at York Theatre Royal studio (28th May - 1st June) and a West End transfer to St James Theatre, West End London in June.
Posted on Thursday 16 May 2013
Good luck to our Theatre, Film and Television Students at the Royal Television Society Awards
Posted on Friday 3 May 2013
The TFTV Technical Team has won a Silver Award in a prestigious university-wide scheme for outstanding achievement
Posted on Thursday 2 May 2013
Films by three talented Theatre, Film and Television student filmmakers have been shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television Awards 2012
Posted on Monday 18 March 2013
We are delighted to welcome sound designer and author David Sonnenschein as a guest speaker to our department on Tuesday 26 March 2013
Posted on Saturday 2 February 2013
Theatre, Film and Television students featured in Holocaust Memorial Day event
Posted on Thursday 31 January 2013
A first visit by an award-winning, and now internationally celebrated, young playwright, who is one of our own graduates
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
All our students graduating in January 2013 are invited to a Graduation Reception after the ceremony.
Posted on Wednesday 14 November 2012
Department of Theatre, Film and Television students have scooped the top prizes in three of the four award categories they entered at the Royal Television Society Yorkshire Region Student Awards ceremony.
Posted on Monday 5 November 2012
One of our students has won a prestigious award for his short film.
Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2012
Creative Skillset, the sector skills council, has accredited ALL the department's film and TV courses.
Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2012
One of our lecturers, David Hickman, has been nominated for the prestigious IDA documentary award in Los Angeles.
Posted on Thursday 18 October 2012
We are excited to announce that we will be starting a new undergraduate degree in Interactive Media starting in Autumn 2014.
Posted on Thursday 4 October 2012
A new animated film aimed at UK primary schools has won 1st prize at Durham New Energy Futures Film Festival. 'Why Build a Sun on Earth?' was directed by recent Theatre, Film and Television graduate Nik Morris, who worked with nuclear fusion scientists from York Plasma Institute to develop the images and script. The animation was commissioned to tour UK primary schools in a portable 'Sun Dome' as part of the institute's outreach programme.
Posted on Friday 15 June 2012
Hannah Davies, a post-graduate in the department, has won the prestigious Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award.
Posted on Wednesday 13 June 2012
Heslington Studios sponsor "Most Promising Newcomer" for Royal Television Society Yorkshire awards.
Posted on Friday 25 May 2012
Professor Mary Luckhurst is one of the first academics in the country to be awarded an international scholarship under a new scheme launched by the Higher Education Academy.
Posted on Monday 21 May 2012
Ambassador Theatre Group offers paid internships to Department of Theatre, Film and TV students.
Posted on Friday 23 March 2012
A recent University of York graduate has got his career off to a flying start by landing himself a behind-the-scenes role on the hotly anticipated flagship BBC One drama series The Syndicate, written by Kay Mellor.
Posted on Wednesday 14 March 2012
A ground-breaking partnership between the Department of Theatre, Film and Television and a commercial film production company will produce five feature films over the next year.
Posted on Friday 10 February 2012
Heslington Studios will be flying the flag for Yorkshire film and television production at its official launch at the Broadcast Video Expo 2012 in London.
Posted on Tuesday 3 January 2012
A University of York student will be watching ITV’s new high-profile drama series Eternal Law with keen interest after landing himself a role as a camera trainee on the production.
Posted on Friday 2 December 2011
Congratulations to Dr Benjamin Poore, Lecturer in Theatre in the Department of Theatre Film and Television, on the publication of his first book.
Posted on Friday 2 December 2011
All our students graduating in January 2012 are invited to a Graduation Reception after the ceremony.
Posted on Thursday 1 December 2011
Students from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television recently formed the production crew for an interview with Baroness Estelle Morris.
Posted on Monday 21 November 2011
The University of York currently has a number of competitive AHRC Doctoral Studentships in the Humanities.
Posted on Thursday 13 October 2011
‘a poignant and affecting piece… Little Angels is bleak and uncompromising, but engaging with darkly comic moments and is very well executed.’ The Press
Posted on Monday 10 October 2011
Students from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television have won a commission from York Maze to produce a short horror movie for the attraction's forthcoming Hallowscream horror nights.
Posted on Monday 18 July 2011
The department's first cohort graduates...
Posted on Monday 20 June 2011
Charles Cecil MBE, who runs Revolution Games, came to the department to run a series of lectures about interactivity and multi-platform opportunities.
Posted on Monday 30 May 2011
On 27th May 2011 the Department of Theatre, Film and Television hosted its 2nd Annual Postgraduate Symposium, the first to be held since taking up residence in its new state-of-the-art building.
Posted on Thursday 10 March 2011
David Hickman (one of our lecturers) has had his Channel 4 film Race And Intelligence: Science's Last Taboo nominated for a "Learning On Screen" award.
Posted on Wednesday 2 March 2011
A FilmEducation DVD - Me and Orson Welles - to which Professor Mike Cordner contributed extensive interview material - has won the "Learning on Screen" awards from the British Universities Film and Video Council.
Posted on Sunday 20 February 2011
Archie Norman is a British businessman and politician, who is currently Chairman of ITV plc. In conversation with Greg Dyke, he reveals some of his business secrets.
Posted on Tuesday 11 January 2011
Greg Dyke, Chancellor of York University and a former Director-General of the BBC, argues that the time has come to set up local TV in the UK.
Posted on Saturday 8 January 2011
New report shows that people remember feature films set in the north of the UK better than ones set in the south.
Posted on Monday 29 November 2010
'Playing for Real' edited by Tom Cantrell and Mary Luckhurst from the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, launched at the National Theatre.
Posted on Monday 22 November 2010
Department of Theatre, Film and Television launches new MA in Digital Film and Television Production
Posted on Friday 19 November 2010
Greg Dyke hosts a panel discussion on freedom of the press and investigative journalism.
Posted on Wednesday 17 November 2010
Britain's "most influential television executive" talks on the future of TV in the digital age.
Posted on Sunday 7 November 2010
Neil Hillman wins RTS award for his work.
Posted on Friday 5 November 2010
Top TV Award for Theatre, Film and Television lecturer David Hickman
Posted on Monday 1 November 2010
New resource for professional actors, students and teachers of drama.
Posted on Thursday 28 October 2010
The East Heslington Campus, Cluster One has been awarded The 2010 GGB BDP Building of the Year Award.
Posted on Thursday 14 October 2010
On October 14th, a group of Yorkshire based media professionals visited the new Theatre, Film and TV building, for a tour of the facilities and a talk by University of York chancellor Greg Dyke.
Posted on Monday 11 October 2010
The adventure begins...
Posted on Friday 4 June 2010
The Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York had its first annual postgraduate symposium on Friday 4 June 2010.
Posted on Saturday 17 October 2009
Two day symposium on the subject of the role of film schools and developments in education and training practices and policy in the UK
Posted on Monday 6 July 2009
Professor Mary Luckhurst wins £200,000 award for a National Teaching Fellowship Scheme Project.
Posted on Friday 22 May 2009
Best paper award was given to Mariana Julieta Lopez and Sandra Pauletto.
Posted on Saturday 24 January 2009
Congratulations to our students who graduated on Saturday 24 January 2009.
Posted on Thursday 1 January 2009
Department welcomes Andrew Higson and Duncan Petrie.
Posted on Saturday 30 August 2008
Review into Arts Council England decisions.
Posted on Thursday 28 August 2008
£5000 award for student company.
Posted on Friday 1 August 2008
Michael Oakleigh has won the 2008 James Menzie-Kitchin Young Director Award.
Posted on Friday 1 August 2008
Guardian theatre critic works with LAMDA students.
Posted on Sunday 30 March 2008
Awards for York Student Company.
Posted on Sunday 20 August 2006
York students work on a major feature film.
Posted on Saturday 17 June 2006
Mary Luckhurst has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.