College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Further BAFTA success for ECA

Edinburgh College of Art students and graduates were triumphant at last night's New Talent BAFTA's.

Both Film and TV and Animation came away with prizes.

Kircaldy Man by Julian Schwanitz (MFA from last year) won best factual under 30 minutes. This film already won a Golden Dove at Leipzig and the Audience award at Glasgow Film Festival.

Hakon Palsson won best director of photography for No More Shall We Part . The film was directed by Shaun Hughes, MA graduate.

Rabbit Punch, which was produced by graduates Stewart Condy and Sara Forbes, won Best Short Fiction.

Best animation was won by Ainslie Henderson for It's About Spending Time Together.

Anna Ginsberg won the best new work category for her animated music video for the Bombay Bicycle Club's single How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep.

The College also had nominations for: Best factual over 30 minutes for Sara Isaac with Karama Has No Walls; and for Best Cinematography for Marek Bukowski in Rabbit Punch.