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

THE SCHOOL

Cosima Spender

On graduating from the NFTS in 2000, Cosima worked with fellow Documentary graduate George Amponsah on the feature-length documentary The Importance of Being Elegant. A film about Papa Wemba and the cult of the cloth, it aired on BBC2 as a flagship instalment of the channel’s Storyville strand, and received widespread critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for a Grierson Award in 2005 and won Best Documentary at The Zanzibar Film Festival.

Since then, Cosima has directed Dolce vita africana (2008), for Tigerlily Films. A documentary portrait of the African photographer Malick Sidibe, the film journeys through Malian history, inspired by his iconic images. Cosima made the film with a number of fellow graduates, among them cinematographer Natasha Braier, and editor Emiliano Battista.

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