The University of Cumbria is proud to present the work of our BA (Hons) Film & TV graduating class of 2026.
This year’s showcase reflects a focused and distinctive cohort of emerging filmmakers and writers, whose projects span drama short scripts, a documentary short, and an original drama production. Together, their work demonstrates a strong commitment to storytelling in both written and realised forms, revealing creative ambition, technical development, and a thoughtful engagement with contemporary subjects and screen craft.
Across script, documentary, and fiction production, these graduates have approached their final projects with dedication, imagination, and professionalism. This showcase celebrates not only the finished work, but also the creative voices behind it as they take their next steps into the creative industries and beyond.
David Robert | Course Leader
Andrew Adams
Andrew is a mature and thoughtful filmmaker and writer, originally from Essex, who has spent his time on this course filling a wide range of roles. From director to editor to writer, he’s done a bit of everything and thoroughly enjoyed it all. He’s drawn upon various influences for inspiration, such as creating a documentary about dungeons and dragons fuelled by his love for the world’s greatest roleplaying game and making a sci-fi comedy that acts as a love-letter to Star Trek and Red Dwarf. Andrew often expresses how lucky he feels to have gotten so many opportunities to stretch his creative muscles, as well as all the people, he’s met and connected with through collaboration. He hopes to keep that spirit up going forward and says that no matter how many more opportunities he gets, he’ll never forget his experiences at university.
Synopses for personal projects
Magpie
Magpie is a short film I produced in year one that depicts a dangerous breakup between a couple, without dialogue.
D&D
D&D is a documentary I produced in year 2 that explores the roleplaying hobby and those that partake in it.
Spotter
Spotter is a short film script I wrote in year 2, that follows a war veteran who can no longer enjoy photography due to the PTSD he developed as a sniper.
Disco Station
Disco Station is a sci-fi comedy that I have created as my final. It’s an ambitious project beyond the scope of something I could fully realise on a student budget. I have therefore created a production portfolio, including scripts, character profiles, photoshoots, makeup tests, script readings, Props and more.
Key Production Credits
Bust – Cinematographer
The Warden – Floor Manager
Happy Wife, Happy Life – Producer
Caught in Cumbria – Director
Thank Yous
I’d like to thank my partner Aimee Shovlar, who was by my side through many sleepless nights these last three years
I’d also like to thank Zak Wood, George Whybro, and Emily Dixon whose support was invaluable to getting my final project finished.
Teagan Armellino
My name is Teagan Armellino, I’m a 20-year-old aspiring writer from Cumbria. I mainly focus on writing scripts, poetry and articles and my work typically explores mature themes such as mental health and wellbeing, derealisation and dark fantasy. I also have an online literary magazine ‘PULSE Magazine’, which I run by myself and dedicate a lot of my free time to. Everything I write comes from a part of me – whether it’s inspired by me, different parts of my life or different people in my life. For my final project, I have devised a script by the name of ‘Cast’ which follows the story of a young woman and how she uses witchcraft to cope with the death of her mother. I wanted to create something that felt authentic and real to me, but also something that an audience could connect with. Grief is a universal, inevitable thing that many people experience, although everyone’s experience is different, and I wanted to capture that through this story.
SYNOPSIS FOR FILM:
CAST is a drama/fantasy short film concept. It follows the story of a young woman, Alice Parker, who moves into her childhood home after the passing of her mother. Whilst moving boxes into the attic, Alice finds mysterious witchcraft items including an old spellbook. As she slowly becomes highly invested, Alice starts to ignore the people closest to her once she finds a spell that could bring her mother back to life.
CREDITS FOR POSTER AND TEASER:
Written, directed and edited by Teagan Armellino
Starring Olivia Buchanan
Photography by Leah Penn
Cinematography by Milosh Hughes
Sound by Matthew Fitzgerald
AD/Runner by Andrew Adams
Matthew Fitzgerald
Milosh Hughes
Milosh Hughes is a surrealist director, photographer, animator, writer and actor. He takes heavy inspiration from various expressionistic artists such as David Lynch, Terry Gilliam and David Firth, as well as the German Expressionist movement of the 1920s.
Milosh bases his narrative themes in concepts of escapism and exploring the extraordinary within the ordinary, with a visual style heavily referential to the uneasy nostalgia of 60/70s experimental cinema, another key influence of his.
As a filmmaker, his aim is to bring back accessibility to cinema, removing the stigma of technical know-how being an essential piece of storytelling, and to prioritise developing a creative voice, rather than budgeting one.
Film Bio: Arriving in the desolate Eden Bay, a traveller soon finds themselves bewitched by the sight of a strange, fog-veiled island. As they try to learn more about it, others try to learn more about them…
Credits:
‘The Shadow of Eden Island’
A Film by Milosh Hughes
Starring Waspie Lambert and David Kirkbride
Shot by Christopher Armstrong
With Assistant Direction by Stuart Armstrong
Sound by Andrew Carswell
Original Score by William Hughes
Special Thanks To Ben Phoenix, Jack Payne, Olivia Buchanan, The Gentry Barber/Tattooing,
Moordale Caravan Park, Silloth Primary School, Margaret Armstrong and Leah Penn
Shot on Location in Silloth, United Kingdom
