[6] In November 2008 the Academy at Edinburgh Napier University was admitted to full membership of CILECT, the association of the world's major film and television schools.
[9] Films by Academy graduates have won numerous prizes[10] and been screened at festivals worldwide including Venice,[11] Kolkata,[12] Tribeca[13] and Beijing.
[14] Students or graduates of the Academy have won the Page Screenwriting Awards Gold Prize for Short Film in three of the past four years,[15] the most recent winner being Amy Rich in 2010.
[19] In 2007 and every year since, the Academy was awarded funding by the EU MEDIA programme[20] for its international writer, director and producer development programme ENGAGE[21] which is a collaboration with the National Film School of Ireland, the Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn, Estonia and Aalto University in Finland.
Notable alumni of Screen Academy Scotland include writer Lin Anderson and filmmaker Basil Khalil.