Kamran Ahmed is a specialist registrar in psychiatry working in London. He is currently doing a Darzi Fellowship and recently won the Royal College of Psychiatrists national award for higher psychiatric trainee of the year. In 2011 he founded Medfest (www.medfest.co.uk), the UK’s first and only national medical film festival with events aimed at medical students at nine universities around the UK. In 2012 the Festival expanded to 16 university sites had over 1000 attendees throughout the country.