RTS Student Television Awards 2025

Awards Ceremony

Friday, 13 June, 2025

The winners for the RTS Student Television Awards 2025, sponsored by 4Skills - Channel 4’s nationwide training and development strategy, have been announced.

The winners were crowned at the prestigious awards ceremony held on Friday 13th June at the IET, Savoy Place, hosted by rapper, author and broadcaster Guvna B.

The National Film and Television School led the way at this year’s awards, taking home 10 wins across the 24 competitive categories, including three postgraduate awards for milk in the Factual – Long Form category and the craft skills Editing and Writing categories. In the Postgraduate categories, NFTS’s Beyond the Bay won in both the Saving the Planet and Craft Skills – Camerawork categories.

Across the undergraduate categories, Middlesex University received three wins for Anomaly in the Animation category and craft skills Production Design and Writing categories. University of Staffordshire’s Happy Death took home two awards for the Factual – Long Form and craft skill Editing categories.

Today the RTS also launched the 2026 RTS Student Television Awards and is now accepting entries until Monday 3 November 2025. The ceremony is set to take place in June 2026. The awards are open to all students enrolled with higher education colleges, universities and institutions in the UK and Ireland only. The films entered must have been made between 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025. For more information please visit: https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-student-television-awards-2026

Sinéad Rocks, Managing Director, Nations and Regions at Channel 4 and Chair of the RTS Student Television Awards, said: “This year’s RTS Student Television Awards winners and nominees are again a true representation of the widespread skill that is flourishing across all corners of television industry. We’re proud to recognise and celebrate the very best fresh talent who are also paving the way for future emerging creatives in the industry, and look forward to receiving submissions for the 2026 edition of the awards.”

Please see below the full list of 2025 winners and nominees, with citations from the juries.

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Winners

Undergraduate Animation: Anomaly

Title: Artūrs Vobļikovs
Broadcaster: Middlesex University
Nominees:
Clubulon - James Rix
ESC - Olivia Timms, Pam Simoes Gomez & Osian Jones

Undergraduate Drama: Gas & Electricity

Title: Daniel Kelly, Grace Bisland, William Duguid Cox & Kelly Halpin
Broadcaster: University of the West of Scotland
Nominees:
Sub rosa - Isabel Hall, Robin Irvine, Becks Bouron & team
Trapped - Glodi Kuba-Kuba, Conor Gallagher, Archie Barker, Jake Perret & team

Undergraduate Entertainment and Comedy Drama: The Face

Title: Alex Russell, Charlotte Davis, Quan Luong, Imogen Lily Christie & team
Broadcaster: University of Gloucestershire
Nominees:
Bricked up - Max James Walker, Xavier Sonski, Tom Carrick & team
Gnomegeddon - Cosmo Bawler, Jack Horder, Tom Chawner & team

Undergraduate Factual – Long Form: Happy Death

Title: Ekaterina Trufanava & Darcy Wootton-Davies
Broadcaster: University of Staffordshire
Nominees:
HUNT - Thalia Saleh, David Merritt, Ed Shaw, Charlie Ord & Alex Weir
Subzero Salvation - Ethan Dear, Alex Lichtenauer, Meena Annamalai, Ronja Putensen & Antoaneta Ninovska

Undergraduate Factual – Short Form: Outsiders

Title: Sharleen Sarzuelo Dydland, Lyam Dara, Tom Fowles, Sierra Fofanah & Marco Chan
Broadcaster: London College of Communication (University of the Arts London)
Nominees:
Clucked - Dean Hamami & Drin Rrahmani
Oj Tato - Natalia Baczynski, Beth Lindsay, Eva Magdić Govedarica & Jennifer Morrison

Undergraduate Journalism: Hairdressing's Forgotten Clients

Title: Shanai Dunglinson
Broadcaster: University of Leeds
Nominees:
Grassroots Rugby - Christian Morante
That's News to Me - Broadcast Production Class of 2025

Undergraduate Saving the Planet: On the Red List

Title: Mathilde van Ooijen, Andrea Costa, Carla Basu, Sean Burns & Federica Massini
Broadcaster: University of the West of Scotland
Nominees:
Go Fish! - Annalena Ulvee, Kara Harvey-Hill & Sophia Vypalova-Simon
One Woman's Green Revolution - Callum Felice, James Smith, Ben Fry, Will Cann & James Gibson

Postgraduate Animation: Dragfox

Title: Lisa Ott, Owen Thomas, John Cooney & team
Broadcaster: National Film and Television School
Nominees:
Adiós - José Prats, Bernardo Angeletti, Natalia Kyriacou, Aurora Melpignano & team
Bunnyhood - Mansi Maheshwari, Ashionye Ogene, Anna Moore, James Davis & team

Postgraduate Drama: Latcho Drom (Good Road)

Title: Lottie Graham, Victoria González Rocamora, Essi Hyrkki, Lauren Wynter & team
Broadcaster: National Film and Television School
Nominees:
Rock, Paper, Scissors - Franz Böhm, Hayder Hoozeer, Hsien Yu Niu & Shivani Bhawnani
Trouble - Arpita Ashok, Sarah Blok, Owen Cant, Ben Sales & team

Postgraduate Entertainment and Comedy Drama: Ministry of Enigmatic Affairs

Title: Marina Fistal & Karan Dhar
Broadcaster: National Film and Television School
Nominees:
Bongo's Big Adventure - Tamzin Murray, Matt Branston, Jake Duncan, Matthieu Levy & Charli Mackie
The Good, the Dad & the Ugly - Natalia Alejarra, Chiara Schreder, Helena Gonzalez & Beatrix Gerencser

Postgraduate Factual – Long Form: milk

Title: Miranda Stern, Ashionye Ogene, Yiwei Pu, Liam Sharpe & team
Broadcaster: National Film and Television School
Nominees:
Ascend - Alistair Bibby
Kiwi Farms: The worst website you’ve never heard of - Fi McBean & Alice Horrell

Postgraduate Factual – Short Form: Leave Only Footprints

Title: Philip Denvir
Broadcaster: Queen’s University Belfast
Nominees:
Is This It? - Somerset Phaedrus, Andre Leo, Katie Ellwood, Sarah-Louise Davila & team
My Heart is Broken - Helen Lambert, Sam Rothera, Nick Smyth, Cameron Mole & Cameron Ward

Postgraduate Journalism: Lewisham: Children's education in crisis due to poor housing

Title: Mathilde Hourticq & Rajeshwari Kashyap
Broadcaster: City, University of London
Nominees:
Artificial Intimacy - William Goodrich, Lilly Croucher & Laura Howes
Project Mbappé: A Path to the Pros? - Kevin Cremen, Esme Jones & Ella-Jane Coxwell

Postgraduate Saving the Planet: Beyond the Bay

Title: Daniel Green, Oliver Cummins, Bettina Zironi & Nir Perlman
Broadcaster: National Film and Television School
Nominees:
A Hole With a View - Felix Prater, Beatrice de Trenqualye & Benet Serra Reche
One Last Farm - Nikki Dodd

Undergraduate Craft Skills – Camerawork: Trapped

Title: Archie Barker
Production Company: University of Salford
Nominees:

Undergraduate Craft Skills – Editing: Happy Death

Title: Darcy Wootton-Davies
Production Company: University of Staffordshire
Nominees:

Undergraduate Craft Skills – Production Design: Anomaly

Title: Artūrs Vobļikovs
Production Company: Middlesex University
Nominees:

Undergraduate Craft Skills – Sound: ESC

Title: Osian Jones
Production Company: Manchester Metropolitan University (SODA)
Nominees:

Undergraduate Craft Skills – Writing: Anomaly

Title: Artūrs Vobļikovs
Production Company: Middlesex University
Nominees:

Postgraduate Craft Skills – Camerawork: Beyond the Bay

Title: Daniel Green & Oliver Cummins
Production Company: National Film and Television School
Nominees:

Postgraduate Craft Skills – Editing: milk

Title: Yiwei Pu
Production Company: National Film and Television School
Nominees:

Postgraduate Craft Skills – Production Design: Adiós

Title: Aurora Melpignano
Production Company: National Film and Television School
Nominees:

Postgraduate Craft Skills – Sound: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Title: Bryony Lear & Marcin Mazurek
Production Company: National Film and Television School
Nominees:

Postgraduate Craft Skills – Writing: milk

Title: Miranda Stern
Production Company: National Film and Television School
Nominees:
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