The Cinema And Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), the UK charity for people working behind the scenes in cinema, film and television, recently announced Jessica Sinyard and Sabina Smitham as the two recipients of the 2016 CTBF Richard Attenborough Scholarship for the National Film and Television School (NFTS). The scholarship provides two students each year with a full one-year scholarship to study for an MA at the world-renowned film school.
Screenwriting MA student Sinyard hails from Yorkshire, and her feature screenplays have won awards in the UK and USA, including Screen Yorkshire’s Triangle Programme and Illinois International Film Festival’s Best Screenplay prize. Smitham’s passion is for scripted development and working with new writers who offer an unusual perspective. At the NFTS she is developing several projects for film and TV.
