Headless Ed is star of winning student film

By The Newsroom

Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 GMT

It may not quite be the Baftas but four students from the University of Central Lancashire have beaten off s national competition to win a prestigious film award.

Yousef Thami, Liberty Shaw, Jake River Parker and Heather Davenport received the Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television Award 2017 Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize for theri entry, Headless: The Ed Shales Story.

RTS Student Television Award Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize winners from l-r Yousef Thami, Jake River Parker, Heather Davenport and Liberty Shaw IT MUST BE CREDITED TO RICHARD KENDAL/RTS

placeholder image — RTS Student Television Award Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize winners from l-r Yousef Thami, Jake River Parker, Heather Davenport and Liberty Shaw IT MUST BE CREDITED TO RICHARD KENDAL/RTS

Two other UCLan students were nominated for awards. Ashley Collier was nominated for Felix in the Undergraduate Short Film category while Gregor Aiken was nominated in the Postgraduate News category for The Green and White Army.