NEW VOICE AWARDS 2025 WINNERS REVEALED
New voice Awards 2025 Winners Revealed
Pulse Films wins Indie Impact Award
Plus, Wins for Sky, Channel 4 and Prime Video for their New Talent
The TV Foundation, the charity behind the Edinburgh TV Festival, today announced the winners of the 2025 Amplify x New Voice Awards.
Amplify x New Voice Awards returned tonight for their eighth annual awards recognising and celebrating the next generation of creatives from across the industry. This year’s winners were revealed at an awards ceremony held at Curzon Soho, hosted by broadcaster and presenter Elle Osili-Wood.
The TV Foundation is committed to make the TV Foundation open to all; a place where new perspectives, ideas and stories thrive. The New Voice Awards provides a prestigious platform for rising stars to make their mark.
Gangs of London producers, Pulse Films had a big win on the evening picking up the inaugural Indie Impact Award for their work seeking out and nurturing new talent.
Channel 4 and Sky scooped two awards each on the night. Channel 4’s Mary Mandefield won Debut Presenter for The Truth About Brazilian Butt Lifts: Botched Surgery Exposed; and Specs Gonzalez won Best Social Creator for their work on Channel 4.0. Debut Writer went to Sky’s Shyam Popat for The Day of the Jackal, Episode 7; and The Victor Adebodun Award for Debut Director Unscripted went to Mark Devlin for Sky’s Chernobyl, My Promised Land.
Further awards for new talent went to Sam Arbor who picked up the award for The Victor Adebodun Award for Debut Director Scripted for Prime Video’s Dead Hot; and Gabriel Astorga for Future Presenter. The 2025 Mentor of the Year award was presented to producer and director Andy Mundy-Castle.
The TV Foundation’s Impact Director, Gemma Bradshaw said:
“Yet again Amplify x New Voice Awards was buzzing with a room full of the hottest new talent from across the industry. Congratulations to the winners, but also everyone shortlisted, the industry needs to sit up and pay attention to what you’re all doing.”
Amplify x New Voice Awards not only celebrated the newest and brightest talent but also brought the audience some extra inspiration with talks designed to amplify their creative careers. Speakers included: Dhanny Joshi, Managing Director, Big Deal Films; investigative reporter Runako Celina; and Jordan Schwarzenberger co-founder of Arcade Media and manager of The Sidemen.
All individual award winners will receive a free pass to the 2025 Edinburgh Television Festival.
The full list of nominees and winners are detailed below:
FUTURE PRESENTER
Caitlin Bryant
Gabriel Astorga
Lyndsey and Louise Scott
Morgan Trotman
Rita from the Pit Lane
DEBUT PRESENTER sponsored by Independent Talent
Emma-Louise Amanshia – Newsround Specials: D-Day (CBBC / BBC iPlayer)
Harleen Nottay – The £12 Million Rental Scam: UNTOLD (Channel 4 Streaming – YouTube)
Iwan Steffan & Aimee Fox – Cysgu efo Ysbrydion (Sleeping with Ghosts), Episode 1 (S4C Hansh – YouTube)
Mary Mandefield – The Truth About Brazilian Butt Lifts: Botched Surgery Exposed (Channel 4 Documentaries – YouTube)
Shini Muthukrishnan – Blue Peter – Meet Our New Presenter (CBBC / BBC iPlayer)
Phoenix Brown – UNTOLD: Born in the Limelight – Nepo Babies (Channel 4 Streaming – YouTube)
DEBUT WRITER
Beru Tessema – On The Edge: Letting Go (Channel 4)
Josh Pugh – Stepping Up (Channel 4)
Laura Jayne Tunbridge – Sweetpea, Episode 4 (Sky Atlantic)
Natalie Burt – On The Edge: The Final Countdown (Channel 4)
Shyam Popat – The Day of the Jackal, Episode 7 (Sky Atlantic)
Toby Parker Rees – On The Edge: Wet Look (Channel 4)
THE VICTOR ADEBODUN AWARD FOR DEBUT DIRECTOR (SCRIPTED)
B Welby – On The Edge: Wet Look (Channel 4)
James Doherty – On The Edge: The Final Countdown (Channel 4)
Mitch Kalisa – On The Edge: Letting Go (Channel 4)
Owen Tooth – EastEnders (BBC One/ BBC iPlayer)
Sam Arbor – Dead Hot (Prime Video)
THE VICTOR ADEBODUN AWARD FOR DEBUT DIRECTOR (UNSCRIPTED) sponsored by The Farm and Grand Central Studios
Henrietta Bennett – The Great Horsemeat Scandal (Sky Documentaries)
Katherine Haywood – Spacey Unmasked (Channel 4)
Marguerite Gaudin – I Am Andrew Tate (Channel 4)
Mark Devlin – Chernobyl, My Promised Land (Sky Documentaries)
Richard Walker – Fresh Cuts: Unfiltered Women (ITVX / ITV1)
Stefan Pollak – ALT Jay Paralympics Paris 2024 (Channel 4)
BEST SOCIAL CREATOR
Chloe Burrows (Channel 4.0)
Harry Pinero (Channel 4.0)
Kim Blythe (Instagram / TikTok)
My Mini Bakes (BBC iPlayer, TikTok, Instagram)
Specs Gonzalez (Channel 4.0)
INDIE IMPACT
Afro-Mic Productions
After Party Studios
Black Camel Pictures
BlackLight Television
Dancing Ledge Productions
Fully Focused Productions
Pulse Films
Wildstar Films
MENTOR OF THE YEAR
Andy Mundy-Castle
Christopher CF Chow
Georgie Yukiko Donovan
John Maidens
Khurrum M. Sultan
Sophie Milligan
