Confetti at Splendour Festival 2018!

Confetti takes on Splendour 2018 for another year and our talented students were at the forefront, gaining real and valuable industry experience.
Film, TV & VFX students work with film, SFX & stunt teams on ‘Book Of Shadows’

Our level 3 Film & TV and FdSc Visual Effects students worked with director, actor and stuntman, Adam Collins, on his short film ‘Book Of Shadows’.
We’re back at Splendour in 2018!

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be returning to Nottingham’s favourite festival, Splendour – on Saturday 21 July!
Our Industry Week 2018 Highlights

What a fantastic week Industry Week was! We welcomed 69 influential guests from Film, TV, Music and Games who gave our students a week to remember.

Over 120 Confetti students work at Splendour Festival 2017

At this year’s Splendour we had over 120 students from across both college and degree courses working in over 209 different roles. See how they got on.
Our college-level students showcase their work across Hockley

Celebrate took over Hockley as our Level 3 TV & Film, Music, Performance, Games and Digital Media students showcased their work.
Students Work on the Shoot for our New Confetti Promo Video

Our students have been ‘Doing It For Real’ working on the shoot for our new promo.
Film student Ellie launches award-winning documentary in aid of Glenfield Hospital

Level 3 Film & TV Production student Ellie has attracted media attention from the BBC, as her Final Major Project highlights the important work taking place on the cardiac unit at Glenfield Hospital.

Confetti students win at the 9th Nottingham Young Creative Awards

On Wednesday evening seven Confetti students took home awards at the 9th Nottingham Young Creative Awards held at Nottingham Playhouse.
Our Industry Week 2017 Highlights
Well what a week that was! From 6 – 10 March we welcomed over 70 guests from across Film, TV, Music and Games for Industry Week 2017! Timetables were replaced with insightful workshops, lectures and masterclasses giving you tips, tricks and insider knowledge of the industries you aspire to join. Check out our highlights from the week... Acting with Roxy Shahidi & Sammy Winward For many of you, Industry Week started early as we welcomed Emmerdale favourites Roxy Shahidi & Sammy Winward on Friday 3 March. Not only did they hold a Q&A session on getting into acting, but they also …

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Exciting new partnership with Access to Music
We are pleased to announce a new, national partnership with further education provider Access to Music (AtM). From September 2017, we will be running our further education courses in collaboration with Access to Music – a national college offering creative courses for school leavers in nine major cities across the country. We count musician Jake Bugg and actor Vicky McClure amongst our ambassadors and we'll soon celebrate a quarter of a century as a leading creative industry educator. Similarly, AtM, now in its 25th year, has seen thousands of young people access its training, including patrons Ed Sheeran and Jess …

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Film & TV student directs his first short film ‘Catharsis’
Here at Confetti we openly encourage students to work on and get creative with their own projects in their free time. We caught up with second year Film & TV student Jay Martin who has just finished directing his first short film ‘Catharsis’, to find out how it went. Jay, can you give us a brief outline of the plot? J: Catharsis follows the story of Sandra, a thirty something business woman, who, after the loss of her first born child Megan, begins a drug and alcohol fueled decent into her own mind as she desperately tries to relive the lost …

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