BFDG Production Design Awards 2025 – meet the upcoming production designers

Kermode on Film

HLA Agency

Film, Arts, News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.5 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For the past few years Mark Kermode has hosted the annual British Film Designers Guild Awards. The awards celebrate the brilliant work of production designers and art departments across film and TV.

One of the things the British Film Designers Guild does brilliantly is to support young people who are keen to get into the business. In today’s podcast Mark talks to this year’s nominees for The Peter Lamont Spotlighting New Talent Award, supported by CrewHQ. The award recognises those starting out in a career in film or TV Art Departments, and spotlights the future stars of the next generation of filmmakers.

Mark talks to this year's three nominees for the Peter Lamont Spotlighting New Talent Award, about their experiences of training for, and finding that all important first job in the Art Department. They are Satdeep Grewal, Nivitha Muralikrishna, and Eunice Naddamba. But first, he talks with Rico Johnson-Sinclair - Director of CrewHQ Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, who sponsor the category

This episode of Kermode on Film is made in partnership with the BFDG.

About the BFDG

The Society of British Film Directors and Designers was founded in 1946. Out of this society grew the Guild of Film Art Directors, and the present British Film Designers Guild (BFDG). Today the BFDG has over 630 members of skilled technicians and designers spanning all the various branches of the Art Department, as well as corporate members. The BFDG membership covers a diverse range of Art Department skills and experience, working on projects of all budgets, from International to Independent and micro-financed productions, to Feature Films, Shorts, Pilots, Promos, Commercials, TV Film, TV Series and Light Entertainment.

Connect with the BFDG here:

Instagram: @british_film_designers_guild

Twitter: @BFDG_Film_Guild

Linkedin: @british-film-designers-guild

Facebook: /British Film Designers Guild

Website:www.britishfilmdesigners.com

This podcast was produced by HLA Agency and edited by Alex Jones

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0:32.3	This episode of Kermodon Film is sponsored by Falmouth University, one of the UK's leading creative arts
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1:37.5	Search Falmouth Online and find out more. Hello and welcome to this podcast recorded for the British Film Designers Guild.
2:00.2	I'm Mark Kermode and I'm delighted to be a part of
2:02.9	the annual BFDG Awards again this year, or as they're known in full, the 14th British Film Designers
2:09.0	Guild production design awards. One of the things the BFDG does brilliantly is to support young
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