SELECT COURSE -------------------------- --MA COURSES Cinematography Composing For Film and Television Digital Post Production Directing Animation Directing Documentary Directing Fiction Editing Producing Producing and Directing Television Entertainment Production Design Screenwriting SFX/VFX Sound Design for Film and Television --------------------- --DIPLOMA COURSES Production Management Script Development Sound Recording for Film and Television ---------------------- --OCCASIONAL COURSES Directors Series Summerdocs: A Summer School in Documentary Direction --------------------- --SHORT COURSES Documentary Drama Business Skills Camera & Sound Editing Craft & Technical Multiplatform

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Jon Hayes

AON/Albert G Ruben Scholar 2003-2004

Jon Hayes started at the bottom of the Industry, working on television series and feature films such as Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? He left to attend the University of Sheffield, where he co-founded and ran a digital production company, where he specialised in producing experimental short films and corporate commissions. He then spent a year working in the Los Angeles film industry before re-locating to Washington DC, to work at Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith’s production company.

Jon came to the NFTS to train as a producer and develop his skills as a script editor. While here, he has developed a deep-seated love for animation and special effects, producing the highly ambitious fiction film X-Mass, and the dark fairytale Lightman. He has also discovered a flair for working with writers and is currently developing three features, one of which is an adaptation of a hugely popular comic novel.

Jon plans to make a career in advertising, specifically in commercials production, and hopes to work in both live-action and animation while developing his feature scripts.

Films at the NFTS include...

Lightman   Festivals include Anima Mundi; Melbourne Film Festival; Karlovy Vary – Fresh Film Festival 
X-Mass   Royal Television Society Student Awards - nominated for Best Non-Factual award; London Film Festival 
Tufnell Park
In Machina (script editor)

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