Christie projects a brilliant future for Mdhamiri Nkemi, winner of the prestigious NFTS award

The British NFTS is considered the best film school in the world and has recently achieved a BAFTA in the category of great British contribution to cinema.

Christie He has been supporting the National Film and Television School (NFTS). This year, the award for "NFTS most promising student"Has been granted to NKEMI NKEMI, a student graduated in assembly.

ADDITIONAL He received a DHD555-GS laser phosphorus projector (GS Series) in the 2018 edition of the NFTS graduation ceremony at the O2 Arena in London. This same year, only two days before, NFTS itself took a BAFTA award in the category of great British contribution to the cinema.

"Supporting the best talents in the industry and associating with the NFTS, with whom we have collaborated for more than a decade, represents a great privilege for us," says Adil Zerouali, director of film sales for Europe of Christie.

“The BAFTA obtained this year by the NFTS for its contribution to the industry through its graduates is a more than deserved prize. Mdhamiri has given well -samples of a huge capacity and a work ethic that will reinforce, I am sure, its reputation. It has won the christie prize to the prize of Christie to the most promising student, and we love that he will be dedicated to the assembly, a vital trade, visible.

Mdhamiri, 22, has already worked on a wide series of shorts, feature films, promotional videos, musical videos and advertising For television. Many of their short -winning shorts have been seen in official sections at prestigious festivals around the world, such as the Film Festival, Sunday or the London BFI.

Richard Cox, head of montage at NFTS, explains that “Mdhamiri showed his great enthusiasm, energy and potential from the moment he crossed the doors of the NFTS. From minute one he demonstrated, with his skills for assembly, that there was a star there. He has always been very wanted for assembly tasks in the school, and carries his edition room with humility and good humor. Variety of films in the NFTS, they have been fixed to find the time and energy necessary to get involved in many projects outside the school, many of them selected to participate in film festivals around the world.

This year the presentation took place on Monday 26 and Tuesday, February 27 at Central Picturehouse, in the Soho, and the awards ceremony by Cineworld on the 28th in the O2 Arena. Cindy Symons, director of the Christie partner, was in charge of delivering her projector to Mdhamiri. The sponsorship of Christie through this award is part of its already consolidated association with NFTS, which includes an annual scholarship for a student to carry out a two -year master's degree.

The support provided by Christie to the NFTS throughout the last decade has been important for both parties and includes the introduction in 2004, of Christie's digital film technology, thereby helping the institution to move towards total conversion to the digital format.

The NFTS is considered the best film school in the world. This year, in addition to being honored with the British contribution award to the cinema at the Bafta gala (held on Sunday, February 19), students of the school won the fifth consecutive BAFTA to the best British animation short short, which in this edition was for Poles Apart, directed by Paloma Baeza and produced for being in Low.