ARU is the place to study a film and media degree. Our industry links will help you make contacts, find work placements, take part in live briefs, and give you opportunities to show your films publicly at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse and work at festivals. You'll also get full training in our specialist film facilities, including studios with green screen and MoCap equipment.
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Our BA (Hons) Film and Television Production students have a long history of success in the regional Royal Television Society Student Awards. In 2024, the film Eternity’s Grace won both the Drama and Camerawork categories, while Therapy won first place in the Entertainment and Comedy Drama category in 2023. In 2021, Lidia Bieniarz won the Best Short Form Film category as well as the top prize – The Sir Lenny Henry Award – for A Film About My Dad, while Agata Kazmierczak won best editing for Colourblind. In 2020 they won 4 of 9 prizes including Best Drama and Best Factual, and 6 out of 10 student prizes in 2019.
Our BA (Hons) Film Production is industry-recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based industries, and carries the ScreenSkills Select quality-mark which indicates courses best suited to prepare students for a career in the screen industries.
We are an officially licensed ARRI Certified Film School, allowing you to get ARRI certification through our training programmes on the ARRI camera systems. Certified trainers: Nick Howard (Technical Team Leader) and Sam Holmár (Media Services Team Leader).
We’re an official Blackmagic Design training partner, which means you can get certification in their DaVinci Resolve video editing software.