MediaMagazine Production Competition 2020 – The Final

Andrea Harkin is a BAFTA-nominated and Royal Television Society award-winning filmmaker from Northern Ireland. Her 2017 short film The Party was nominated for Best British Short at the 2017 BAFTAs and was also a nominee at the European Film Awards. It picked up several prizes at film festivals internationally. In television drama, Andrea most recently directed an episode of AMC’s new anthology series Soulmates (starring Charlie Heaton and Malin Akerman), set to air later this year. She was the lead director on the BBC’s flagship period drama The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019) which aired to much critical acclaim and press attention in December 2019. Prior to this, she directed Come Home (2018), a 3-part drama set in Belfast (BBC One/RED Productions), winning a Royal Television Society NI Award for Best Drama. Come Home also won the RTS Award for Best Editing, with Christopher Eccleston winning an International Emmy nomination for his performance. Previously, she directed the second block of BBC3's hit drama-thriller Clique (series 1). 

Andrea is a graduate of the UK’s National Film & Television School, Channel 4’s Coming Up scheme, and the EIFF Talent Lab. She is currently working between directing television drama and developing feature projects, including the iFeatures/BFI-supported film, Across The Water.

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The Barney Oram Creativity Award

This award is in memory of Barney Oram, an inspirational, gifted and much-loved teacher of Film and Media at Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, who sadly died in November 2018. Barney was passionate about film and young people’s production work. To commemorate his legacy, we asked Andrea Joyce, Team Leader for Film Studies at Long Road, one of the largest cohorts in the country, and her colleagues Tom Woodcock and Nick Potamitis, to judge this special category.