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The UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS) has appointed Hamnetand 1917producer Pippa Harris and YouTube UK and Ireland managing director Alison Lomax to its board of governors.
BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated producer Harris is the co-founder of independent production company Neal Street Productions. She is currently in production on Sam Mendes’s biopic The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event for Sony Pictures. Neal Street is also behind long-running TV seriesCall The Midwife.
Lomax is a longtime Google executive who has headed YouTube’s UK and Ireland operation since January 2023. YouTube has a number of NFTS partnerships, including the Creator Incubator and Create x Connect programmes aimed at digital storytellers.
Harris and Lomax join current NFTS board members including Ash Atalla, CEO of Roughcut TV; Cécile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios; Farhana Bhula, director of Film4; Julian Bellamy, ITV Studios managing director; Kate Phillips, BBC chief content officer; and Polly Cochrane, former VP of Warner Bros. Discovery.
The appointments come as the NFTS prepares to open The Cubby Broccoli Building at its Beaconsfield HQ in January 2027. The expansion will provide 25,000 sq. ft. of additional teaching space, house new courses in costume design and hair and makeup, expand apprenticeship opportunities and provide purpose-built accessible student accommodation for the first time in the school’s history.
NFTS chair Sophie Turner Laing said: “The way audiences discover, engage with and enjoy stories is changing at an extraordinary pace, and it’s vital the NFTS continues to reflect the full breadth of the industries our graduates are being trained to enter. Pippa and Alison bring hugely valuable and complementary perspectives, from the craft and ambition behind some of the world’s most successful film and television productions to the phenomenal growth of digital creators and new platforms.”
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