A 30 minute documentary made on the Waterford Institute of Technology’s (WIT) Higher Diploma in Television run in conjunction with Nemeton TV won the best student  TV programme at the National Student Media Awards. The awards ceremony took place last week in Dublin.

This is the second year in a row that the Higher Diploma scooped the top award. Last years Smedia Best Documentary  winner, ‘Liam Clancy mo Chara’ was subsequently commissioned by TG4 into a one hour film broadcast on Christmas day 2014.

It is a great honour for the students to be on the short list and they were competing with students from UCC, UCD, TCD,DCU, National Film School Dun Laoghaire, DIT and the other Institutes of Technology media courses.

Micheal O Flatharta and Ciaran Durkin from Conamara were nominated as Director and Editor. They made the Documentary ‘Charlie Lennon’

The Higher Diploma has a great reputation in the media industry for its practical skills and the opportunity it gives students to make their own films, corporate videos or dramas on the course. They learn camera, editing (final cut x), writing and directing skills to a broadcast standard.

We are currently accepting applications for Round Two admissions for the Higher Diploma for 2015/16.

For more information contact course director Bláithín Ní Chatháin at 058 46499 or see www.wit.ie/551

To apply for the course visit www.pac.ie