SMART: Smartphone Film Festival

11 Jul 2026

a one-day film festival showcasing the creative impact of Smartphone Filmmaking - from no-budget DIY shorts to internationally acclaimed feature films.

Synthetic Sincerity: a new feature film by Marc Isaacs and Adam Ganz

10 Jul 2026

How will we react to the human face once AI has learnt to fake it? And how might this technology affect cinema in the future?

Alumni wins the 2026 Orwell Prize

30 Jun 2026

Karen Bartlett, a graduate of Royal Holloway’s Screenwriting MA, has won the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

Shanghai Summer School 2026

08 Jun 2026

Five students have just started this year’s Summer School at Shanghai Normal University.

RTS Student Awards 2026

31 Mar 2026

Royal Holloway students scoop 3 awards including the top prize.

After the Eleventh Hour: Reanimating Radical Film Today

19 Mar 2024

Postgraduate Research Workshop ‘After the Eleventh Hour: Reanimating Radical Film Today’

REF 2021 results for Media Arts at Royal Holloway

11 May 2022

How did the Department of Media Arts perform in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021?

AHRC / Techne Doctoral Studentships available in the Department of Media Arts

28 Oct 2021

AHRC / Technē Doctoral Studentships available in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London

StoryFutures commissioned for UK-wide festival of creativity in 2022

25 Mar 2021

StoryFutures Academy run by Royal Holloway, University of London and the National Film and Television School (NFTS), is celebrating being commissioned as one of 10 creative teams to develop its...

Collective performance award given to the Media Arts Tech Team

29 Jan 2021

Our media arts department is energetically, proactively creative – and keeping that creativity going on a practical, technical level requires a dedicated team of staff: our Technical Services Team