13th and 14th March 2008
Newport
This new Festival will be an opportunity, co-ordinated by the Screen Academy Wales, Film Agency Wales and supported by British Film Institute, to bring important works from early documentary filmmakers to as wide a new audience as possible, and will be a unique opportunity to see films with Welsh themes never before seen on the big screen in South Wales.
The festival’s screenings will consider Wales through documentary film – looking at how Wales has been viewed and portrayed by filmmakers from outside Wales such as by legendary 30’s and 40’s filmmakers Rotha, Anstey and Jennings. Films will include a lyrical British Transport film, Every Valley, which cuts fine images of light industry in Wales to Handel’s music, in a study of the effects of the depression on industrial Wales.
These older classic films will be juxtaposed with a selection of films from the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, including films looking at the changing landscapes of Bardsey Island and Tiger Bay, and with new documentaries made by Welsh black filmmakers and a number of films commissioned specially by students of the BA Documentary Film Course at the International Film School Wales.
Link:
http://www.screenacademywales.org/stfwales.asp
Email:
stfwales (at) googlemail (dot) com
Telephone:
01633 432679