Glastonbury Showcase for BAFTA Cymru Winner!

The tents are down, and the last drop of cider has been consumed however we are delighted to report on the success of a new partnership between BAFTA Cymru, Skillset Screen Academy Wales and It’s My Shout to support the Glastonbury Village Screen Project, a unique showcase of the UK’s best new creative talent held during the five-day music festival.

Led by the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and the BBC, the Village Screen Project started life in 2009, where for the first time Glastonbury festival-goers were able to watch short films, festival archive footage and gaming sessions on two giant digital screens.

BAFTA Cymru were delighted to celebrate the very best Wales has to offer by showcasing the 2009 BAFTA Cymru Award winning entry for 'Best Short Film' 'Elephants' by Sally Pearce

WATCH A CLIP OF ELEPHANTS HERE

READ MORE HERE

See our great new ident here..

#Edfilmfest Episode V: Revenge of the Retrospective

Our final blog comes to you with dual influence, firstly from this excellent poster ( pinned all over Edinburgh) urging you to find this year's EIFF retrospective strand and secondly inspired by a viewing of the brilliant 'The People V's George Lucas'. A documentary, so thorough in its examination of the cultural phenomenon that is Star Wars that it immediately makes you want to go out and watch them all back to back (even the prequels!). It raises some interesting debates surrounding Fandom, Auteur Theory. An 'of our times' documentary that leaves you ridiculously nostalgic.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE PEOPLE V'S GEORGE LUCAS HERE
Also, watched 'The Rebound' (an unusual EIFF choice) the first outing of Catherine Zeta Jones for some time- sees her team up in this rom com with the notably younger Justin Bartha. Catherine takes centre stage as the mom of two who's world falls apart when she captures her husband in an uncompromising position on home video..the fall-out is the rest of the film as she moves to New York to re-build her life.

BAFTA Scotland staged the excellent 'In conversation with Sir Patrick Stewart' at Cineworld to a sold out audience, and I'm pleased to say Sir P.S really is the nicest man. The reception offered the opprtunity to try 'Haggis Parcels' and this, on my last evening was the final and only Scottish fare I encountered: Thankfully the shop was closed for this:



Suitcase in hand, set off to view MR NICE, the eagerley awaited adaptation of Howard Marks book starring Rhys Ifans & Chloe Sevigny. The film is entirely true to the book and Ifans is the natural, obvious choice for Marks. With such an excellent character portrayal from Ifans, you have to keep reminding yourself that you are not watching Howard himself.




MR NICE is due out in early autumn and you can VIEW THE OFFICIAL TRAILER HERE


Well, It has been a fantastic festival- viewed far more films than last year, met more people, walked more ground.

Favorite film: 'Third Star' closely followed by 'The People V's George Lucas' and huge thanks to all at EIFF who work incredibly hard to make this happen. Thanks also to BAFTA Scotland and colleagues at Film Agency Wales who are constantly 'out there' working and meeting people for the good of film in Wales, and including me along the way-Hoorah!

Roll on EIFF 2011.

#Edfilmfest Part One..

Edinburgh Film Fest is in full swing once again,and after BAFTA Cymru enjoy a full Scottish Breakfast ( not entirely dissimilar to it's Welsh, English & Irish counterparts) I am ready to attack the film festival- armed with pass and an over zealous wish list of films to view and people to meet, I'm guessing that it is realistic to expect to view only half of these.at most.

'Third Star', funded by FAW is closing EIFF and as ever committed to viewing Welsh film & talent we will be rising ridiculously early tommorrow a.m for an industry viewing. VERY much looking forward to seeing Mr.Nice on Tuesday morning and heading to watch Paul Andrew Williams' latest(London to Brighton & The Cottage) 'Cherry Tree Lane' this afternoon..reports to follow


Scottish Screen networking 'Hair of the Dog' ensued a fitting welcome yesterday evening, followed by dinner on the grassmarket..

Favourite comment of the day (in relation to Edinburgh Castle) "Isn't it amazing that it doesn't fall down" ..anon.

Two key things I had temporarily forgotten about Edinburgh;

* It is so beautiful - about 4 times a day you feel like you are walking through a film set
* There are lots of steps - entirely possible already lost 4lbs just from walking between various venus & it's only day one!
Anyhow.. enough about that and more to follow daily- mostly film related with just a tiny smattering of gastronomic input from me.

Faye x