A HOST of film production graduates from Wiltshire College & University Centre’s Salisbury campus have played key roles in films nominated for this year’s 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards.

Film studies lecturers are celebrating the part played by eight graduates from the Film Production and Cinematography BA Honours course in six of the films that have made the awards longlist, announced this week.

• Bethany Spence was a greens team supervisor designing plants and vegetation and William Todd was an assistant store person for zombie thriller 28 Years Later, which was listed for Outstanding British Film.
• Ishana Feldwick was a production department co-ordinator on Carey Mulligan’s literary drama H Is For Hawk and Sam Fowler was a junior production manager and Charlie Pride a video playback assistant on Pillion, a bike-theft thriller starring Jacob Elordi. Both films were also up for Outstanding British Film.
• Ishana was also production department co-ordinator on Willem Dafoe’s psychological thriller The Man in My Basement, which is up for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
• Nicholas Milligan was a cameraman on My Father’s Shadow, a coming-of-age drama starring Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, which is also lists for Outstanding Debut. Pillion is also longlisted in this category.
• Ben Gadsden was second assistant camera and Henry Standring standby props on the Brad Pitt sports action thriller F1: The Movie, which is listed for Best Cinematopraphy.

The longlist will be whittled down to nominations by the end of the month.

Lecturer Kieron Evans said the number of nominations is a tribute to the quality of the course. “We’re a small course, but we consistently punch above our weight in alumni success,” he said.

“That comes from a film school culture rooted in the realities of professional filmmaking – one that values work ethic, adaptability and collaboration just as much as craft. These nominations are a testament both to the commitment of our students and to the clear industry focus of everything we do.”

He said the breadth of roles occupied by alumni shows how many routes there are into the film industry, if students work hard enough. “Any sensible student goes into film as a career path with a little bit of trepidation, because everybody knows that it’s quite highly competitive,” he said.

“There are jobs out there, and obviously there’s so many people going for them, but it is nice, and it’s reassuring for our students to see people who were once sat in the same chair as them are now working alongside some of the most famous faces on the planet.”

He is also heartened by the number of longlisted titles shot on film as Salisbury is one of the few courses in the country still teaching students celluloid production.

He said he and colleagues like Digital Media Technician Denzil Lyne get satisfaction from seeing graduates succeed. “Denzil keeps checking up to see what our students have worked on because it’s what we’re all about really, and if our students aren’t out there working in the film and TV industry, then we’re not doing our jobs properly,” he said.

He said while talent is essential for progression, hard work is equally important. “The one thing that I’ve noticed about the students who really do succeed is that when they’re on a particular job, you as a lecturer can sit back and say ‘we don’t have to worry about it, that student’s on it’,” he said.

“The students who go on to do well and make it in the industry are never really a surprise.”

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