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Congratulations to Louise Begbie, Milla Harju, Fatima Heldu, Claudia Lorenz, Nadin Mai and Amanda Jayne Naughton, whose  film ‘A Bunch of Gentlemen’ has been nominated for this year’s Royal Television Society Student TV awards.

This year’s winner of the Jonathan Witchell Prize for Best Radio Feature is “The Touch of That Stone”, a short feature on the Bastion, an ancient monument located within the Thistle Centre in Stirling, and which served as a guard tower built into the 16th century wall which surrounded the city.

The piece was produced as part of the third year module FMS9D6 Radio Feature Production, and the student producers are Sarah Caughey, Sophie Hanlon, Amy Jopling and Jeremy Watssman.

You can listen to the feature on the StirlingMedia YouTube Channel, which features the work of students who have studied on our programmes.

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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Film & Media and Journalisn Studies last year is now working as a production assistant on the latest James Bond film, Skyfall.

An article about his experiences on the Bond set featured in the Glasgow Evening Times last week.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks of family stories and his affinity with Cowdenbeath Football Club in a short documentary called When The Sun Shines, created by University of Stirling student Ross Cunningham.

The emotive film focuses on Central Park, Cowdenbeath’s stadium, and relates it to the memories and bonds that come with being a devoted football fan. The film also features interviews with Ron Ferguson, Ross Birrell and Craig Winter.

When The Sun Shines is currently featuring on YouTube, as one of many films on the Stirling Media channel which showcases the work of students who have studied on our programmes.

Taught Degrees

The School of Arts and Humanities is pleased to offer a number of postgraduate tuition fee bursaries for students starting selected taught postgraduate programmes in September 2011.  In Film, Media & Journalism these bursaries will be available to students taking the MSc in Strategic Public Relations (Lund University).

These £1,000 tuition fee awards will be available to both Home/EU and overseas students.  Further information can be found here and application forms are available here.

Research Degrees

Bursaries covering the full value of fees for three years of PhD study are also available for students who have been offered a place on one of our postgraduate programmes by 8 July, 2011.  These bursaries are competitive and will be awarded on the basis of academic merit.    Further information can be found here and applications forms are available here.

The University of Stirling is hosting the Fourth Annual Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Culture conference, which will be dedicated to the subject of Film and Memory.

Topics include:

• Film and institutional memory
• Film and personal and/or collective memory
• Film and public/critical reception
• Film and processes of remembering and forgetting
• Film music and memory
• Film studies and memory – remembering the BFI summer schools

The 2011 SCFVS Conference will also be marking the lives and the contributions to the study of film which our colleagues Dr Mark Brownrigg at the University of Stirling and Professor John Orr from the University of Edinburgh made in the course of their respective careers.

Keynote Speakers include Professor Richard Dyer (Kings College, London) and Professor Andrew Hoskins (University of Nottingham).

More information including the preliminary programme and registration details can be found at www.film.stir.ac.uk.

Conference is open to all however registration is required.

Contact: Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard <isabelle.gourdin-sangouard@stir.ac.uk>

Students from the University of Stirling have won a major award from the Scottish branch of the Royal Television Society, picking up the prize for Best Factual Programme.

The winner, ‘Upon the Green’, was made by the Stirling team of Woodruff Laputka, Maggie Whyte, Stephen Sirinides, Andrew Cameron, Kirsty Black and Cheryl Judge.

The RTS judging panel said it was “an outstanding piece of work” and described it as “a moving observational documentary … which focused on the personalities involved in running an outdoor bowling club”.

‘Upon the Green’ now goes forward in the spring to challenge for the RTS UK award and wins an automatic place in the Celtic Media Festival.

Also nominated in the Factual category was ‘A New Beginning’, produced by the University of Stirling team of Claire Robiche, Menglei Zhang, Ellie Reinbrecht, Fraser Mackie and Ross Cunningham.

Their counterparts from RSAMD were winners of the Best Fiction title but there was a nomination for ‘Liam’, produced by Stirling’s Edward Grotlin, Rosalie Nish, Mia O’Neill, Fraser Stark, Amy-Dee Tighe and Natasha Triay. One other Stirling film, ‘Ties’, was highly commended by the judges, and that was produced by Elizabeth Edgar, Ross Thomson, Graham Reid, Matthew Sawyer, Carla Veitch, Michael Walsh and Christina Wilson.

Upon the Green can be seen on the Film, Media & Journalism YouTube Channel.

Further information can be found on the allmediascotland website