BCFE nominated for five Smedia awards

Ballyfermot College of Education (BCFE) have been nominated five ‘Smedias’ – Short Film of the Year, TV Production of the Year, Small College Publication, Website of the Year, and Journalist of the Year (National Press).

The Smedias, the main Irish student media awards, take place this Tuesday night at Tripod in Dublin.

While most nominates were confirmed by last night, the nominees for two categories, which BCFE students are in – TV Journalist of the Year and Drama Television Production in Irish – have yet to be announced.  

Prediction by Liam Berrington is has been nominated for Short Film of the Year, and BCFE Promo by Donovan Delaney is in for a TV Production of the Year award.

The Ballyfermot Post is in the awards for Small College Publication, and Website of the Year. With the small college publication award, the Post is up against two Griffith College publications, Griffiti Magazine and the Circular, and the RCSI Student Medical Journal created by students at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

In the website of the year category, this website is pitted against NUI Maynooth’s scoutingradio.com, and three websites of Trinity College Dublin publications; Icarus’s icarusmag.com, the Record’s therecord.ie and Analogue’s analoguemagazine.com.

In addition, this the Ballyfermot Post was on the “shortlist” for Newspaper of the Year, and Layout and Design of the Year awards but failed to be fully nominated for such.

Our reporter, Debbie Tierney, got to the Smedia’s shortlist stage for the Headline award for journalism relating to mental health or suicide prevention. BCFE students Bruno Palma and Gerard Browne were also in the shortlist for the Short Film of the Year category. And Patrick O'Grady and Ruth Devaney were both on the first list for the Radio Production of the Year (Arts/Features) award.

Unlike most awards, those shortlisted for the Irish student media awards are not actual final nominees, leaving the Smedia’s shortlist comparable to what is normally called a longlist.

Smedia awards are organised by student website oxygen.ie, and sponsored by Three Ireland, Nokia, the Irish Daily Star, the Sun, the News of the World, Independent News & Media, the Irish Times, the Irish Examiner, Irish Daily Mirror, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, TG4, Udaras na Gaeltachta, TV3 News, Phantom 105.2, Movies @ Cinemas, the Higher Education Authority, HostelWorld.Com, the HSE's national office for suicide prevention, HMV, the RTE Guide, and the Irish Film Board.

The awards are set to be held this Tuesday night – shortly afterwards we’ll be reporting on the winners in all categories.

MORE: Full shortlist and nominees