Media St Mary's Screening at the BFI

Final Year Students on the BA Media Arts and BA Film and Screen Media programmes at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, had their short film projects screened to an industry audience in the British Film Institute (BFI) screening rooms on Friday 22^nd May. Every year, final year students on the Advanced Video Production module produce and direct a short film, with the writing support of students taking the Screen Writing module. These then form part of the annual Media Arts graduate showcase, hosted on St Mary’s Strawberry Hill campus. This is the first year that students have had their work displayed at the BFI and the screenings are to be followed by this year’s graduate showcase also being displayed in the News Building at the Shard complex, Central London, for the first time in June. Media Arts Programme Director Lee Brooks said, "We hope that this screening will be the first of many. This is part of a conscious drive to encourage our students to view the work that they produce not just as a response to an assessment, but as real media products that have a life beyond the walls of the University. In order to do this we need to invest them with commercial, and artistic importance, and screening them in a top class cinema, for a professional, film industry audience, is very much a part of that."