Two students awarded Highly Commended for short films

On January 12th two Exeter College students and their lecturers were invited to the WJEC Moving Image Awards held at the British Film Institute on London's Southbank. The Moving Image Awards, designed in partnership with the British Film Institute, recognises and rewards the UK's most talented young film-makers. Every year, students undertaking WJEC qualifications in Film and Media are invited to submit their work for consideration by their panel of judges.

A Level Media student Tobias Walters was awarded Highly Commended for his coursework film, “The Quality of Bees”. The film is a poetic documentary featuring local beekeeper Pete Roberts and local artist Amy Shelton. Tobias is now a student at Art School in Denmark; he flew back to attend the ceremony with friends and family. You can watch the film online here.

Leah Yeger, studying AS Film and Video was awarded Highly Commended for her film 'Blue Velvet'. The film itself is a affectionate and sensitive investigation of transvestitism conveyed through a carefully crafted music video. Leah is now in her second year of A levels at Exeter College, and has just been offered a place at Cambridge University. You can view her film online here.

This year the guest speaker was Kate Leys. Kate is a freelance script editor and former film commissioning editor at Channel Four. You can read more about the awards here.

As the largest provider of A level and GCSE Film Studies, and one of the largest for A level and GCSE Media Studies we are delighted to work with over 1,000 schools and colleges here and abroad. With the BFI we are excited to applaud the dedicated work of our students.”
Rebecca Ellis, Subject Officer Film Studies, WJEC.