Winner
Supriya Sobti Gupta
Media Studies - Television BA, 2005
Supriya faced family resistance when choosing investigative journalism at university, but a career-defining role at the BBC changed it all. She went on to work with leading broadcasters across the world.
Supriya returned to Mumbai in 2009 with a focus on telling bold stories from the Indian heartland. She produced Bad Boy Billionaires, an investigative docu-series on the rich and notorious, that remains one of the most widely watched documentary series from India to date. She recently made her directorial debut with a true crime sports documentary titled Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket. (for Netflix) while pregnant with twins. The film was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Award.
Supriya founded MOW Productions, a production company that focuses on stories that entertain, inspire and promote public interest journalism. Her journey exemplifies the transformative impact of authentic storytelling in the creative industries.
Finalists
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Commercial Music BA, 2009
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is a composer. After graduating from Westminster, she gained an Acoustic Composition MMus from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2010.
Emilie composed for Rocks, a 2019 British film directed by Sarah Gavron. Rocks premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was nominated for seven awards at the 74th British Academy Film Awards.
This was followed by Censor, a 2021 British psychological horror film directed by Prano Bailey-Bond, and Emilie’s score was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. She then composed for Living, a 2022 British period drama. At the 95th Academy Awards, Living received two nominations.
Her latest achievement is All of Us Strangers, a 2023 British romantic fantasy directed by Andrew Haigh. All of Us Strangers premiered at Telluride Film Festival, and was released in the UK by Searchlight Pictures in 2024. It was named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and earned 6 BAFTA Award nominations.
George Georgiou
Film, Video and Photographic Arts BA, 1987
George Georgiou is an internationally acclaimed award-winning documentary photographer and educator. He is the author of three photographic monographs, including Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West, published in Italy, France, Greece, and the UK.
His work focuses on communities in transition, identity and how people negotiate the space they find themselves in. He has worked extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for more than a decade.
His awards include two World Press Photo awards in 2003 and 2005, The British Journal of Photography project prize in 2010, Pictures of the Year International first prize for Istanbul Bombs in 2004 and a Nikon Press Award UK for best photo essay in 2000.
George’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2011 his pictures from his work in Turkey were selected to feature in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) New Photography exhibition. His work is held in several permanent public and private collections including MoMA and the Sir Elton John Collection.
Jonathan Klein
Music Business Management MA, 2011
Westminster's Music Business Management MA course was fundamental in giving Jonathan the tools to succeed in the music industry. Since then, he helped launch Apple Music in the UK and has dedicated the last decade to supporting British talent as Apple Music’s Editorial lead for Pop and Hits.
He has launched numerous playlists such as UK R&B, Pop Deluxe, and A-List Pop. His ambition has always been to spotlight the next generation of talent in the UK as well as giving opportunities to those starting their careers in the music industry.
For the last eight years, he has managed Apple Music’s Development Programme, which has given young people a chance to spend a full year working at Apple Music. Their alumni have gone on to work at Dirty Hit, Sony Music, Modest Management, Spotify, Warner and many more. This has been his greatest joy and proudest achievement, to pay it forward after everything he learned and was afforded after completing his degree at Westminster.