Budding filmmaker wins regional award with comedy inspired by Vic and Bob

Brad Hedley, centre, with Callum Simpson, right, and university lecturer Ian McPake.

A talented filmmaker from Alnwick has won a prize at the regional Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards.

Brad Hedley was part of the University of Sunderland team which won the best student entertainment category for their absurdist comedy, The Importance of Acquiescence.

"I acted in it and did the sound for it,” said Brad, who graduated last summer with a degree in digital film production.

"It was a great experience and fantastic to win the award.”

The 21-year-old hopes it will help him land a career in the industry.

"I’m applying for film roles here, there and everywhere and just hoping that things take off on the acting side or crew side,” he said.

"I’ve been into film for as long as I can remember and was about 13 when I started learning about it with Kris Deedigan’s MyLife Productions in Alnwick.”

For now he is preparing for the coming visitor season at Alnwick Castle – location of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the first two Harry Potter films – where he will be a film tour guide.