The Edinburgh TV Festival’s charity, The TV Foundation, has announced the winners of the 2025 Amplify x New Voice Awards.

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.”

The full list of nominees and winners are: 

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 Chow  

Georgie Yukiko Donovan  

John Maidens  

Khurrum M. Sultan  

Sophie Milligan