Craven College Film Festival: Tomorrow’s Filmmakers, Today’s Stories

Year 2 Creative Media students collaborated to put together a collection of documentaries to display to audiences at the 2025 Craven College Film Festival. Run wholly by students, all the films, print content, and on-the-day tech is carried out by students, with each student having their part to play from direction to event capture, photography to stage design, front of house to ticketing and much, much more!

Split into viewing blocks, staff and students were invited to book onto sessions to form the audience to share in the Media students’ work. Films on show included: –

Tourism in Malham – Robbie Watmough
Save Our Cinema – Joe Sutcliffe, Josh Newsome, Eli Coe
Beyond Eden – Is Morecambe Ready? – Rebecca Radda with Luke Pyrah
Victory’s Last Call – Luke Pyrah
Rock to the Top – Felicity Beckett
Creative Writing – Eliza Suarez
The Flight of the Canaries – Harry Lyons
Steeton Hall – Sam Leach
Who’s in The Data? – Havaa Shahzad, Ellie Throupe, Summer Ibbs
Quiet Corner of the Universe – Phoebe Simpson
MASA: A Mockumentary – Ron Holton, Sajidur Rahman
In-Tune – Riley Sayer

In a hall turned into a cinema, with of course popcorn and refreshments to buy and audiences enjoyed a vast range of different subject matters turned into well-filmed and fascinating documentaries.

Ben Pearson, Lecturer in Creative Media said, “This film festival has provided the students with the opportunity to showcase their own work, this festival was managed and orchestrated by themselves. This was a huge effort and one the students really raised to, making Chris Bainbridge (Media Lecturer) and myself very proud.”

Find out more about Creative Media at Craven College or visit us at our next Open Event.