Dydd Santes Dwynwen Day

Join Film Hub Wales in a Wales-wide celebration of the Patron Saint of Welsh lovers on Dydd Santes Dwynwen Day, with your Welsh love-themed screenings and events.

• Applications will be accepted until mid-December of each year
• We’ve curated a package of Welsh films with a ‘love’ theme (below) to help with your programming ideas. Alternatively, you can download the pack here (includes booking contacts).
• We’d be very happy to hear your event ideas or other film titles you would like to show as part of the celebration – we look forward to hearing from you.
• Members can apply for Welsh Film Support to take part in our Dydd Santes Dwynwen Day celebration.

LOVE Themed Shorts: 

Heartstrings

Dir: Rhiannon Evans
Release: 2009
Running time: 3m 07 sec
Synopsis: Heartstrings is a 2009 British animated short film directed by Rhiannon Evans at the University of Wales in Newport. It tells the story of two stop-motion figures made from string, who fall in love; their love is represented by a red string that connects them at the heart. The film was made on a budget of £500 and took around four months to complete. In 2010 it was included on the Best of British Animation Awards Vol. 8 DVD. It won 12 awards between 2009 and 2010.
Format: Available on AVI (DCP in creation and Blu-Ray available upon request). Preview available on request.
Booking contact: Rhiannon Evans rhianimator@ymail.com

Y Cwtch Letchwith / The Awkward Hug

Dir: Visual Influence (Christian Britten & Richard Starkey)
Release: 2013
Running time: 2m 58 sec
Synopsis: A Welsh language (without subtitles) comedy short that captures a moment that hopefully everyone has or will experience at one point. That moment when someone says ‘I love you!’
Format: Available on DCP, digital file or BluRay. Preview available on request. Updated format with subtitles available early October.
Booking contact: Christian Britten chris@visualinfluence.co.uk or Richard Starkey rich@visualinfluence.co.uk

All My Happy Friends

Dir: Paul Allen
Release: 2015
Running time: 3m 11 sec
Synopsis: Life’s a stage. And so is social media. When Claire checks her phone, her friends quite literally ‘pop up’ to tell her how good their lives are. She slowly gets more depressed, but maybe she’s part of the problem.
Format: DCP, Blu-Ray, DVD, AVI. Please discuss your needs with Paul. Password protected Vimeo link available on request.
Booking contact: Paul Allen: pallen33@gmail.com

Millionaire

Dir: Lauren Orme
Release: 2014
Running time: 2m
Synopsis: Animated poetry film for “Millionaire” by Mab Jones. Winner of Best Animation, Best Valentine and Best Overall Production at Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2015. Screened at Glastonbury Festival 2015. One of 10 films shortlisted in the Southbank’s Shot through the Heart poetry film competition, as part of Poetry International 2014.
Format: Please discuss your needs with Lauren. Preview here.
Booking contact: Lauren Orme : laurenormefilms@gmail.com 07900 215 578

NSSAW Screen Gems:

Ding Dong

Dir: Tracy Spottiswoode
Release: 2001
Running time: 3 m 11 sec
Synopsis: An eccentric vicar (Phillip Madoc) comes up with an unusual solution for a wedding facing disaster but the bridesmaid has a plan to save the day, if she can get to the church on time. Set at St Catwg’s Church, Cadoxton, Barry.
Format: DVD. Other menu options available, please discuss with Elen.
Booking contact: Elen Jones – 01970 632828 / etj@llgc.org.uk

Line Engaged

Dir: Wayne Cater
Release: 2001
Running time: 3 m 36 sec
Synopsis: Barry (played by Drew Mulligan) is desperate to get married. He prepares his approach and practices his proposal in front of the mirror. The ring’s ready and he just needs to say the words…
Format: DVD. Other menu options available, please discuss with Elen.
Booking contact: Elen Jones – 01970 632828 / etj@llgc.org.uk

Three Big Words

Dir: Chris Buxton
Release: 2001
Running time: 3m 25 sec
Synopsis: Miles (played by Simon Ludders) is on his way to his girlfriend’s house with a bunch of flowers, to tell her that he loves her, when passers-by begin to follow him to question him and offer their advice.
Format: DVD. Other menu options available, please discuss with Elen.
Booking contact: Elen Jones – 01970 632828 / etj@llgc.org.uk

S4C Classics:

Solomon a Gaenor

Dir: Paul Morrison
Release: 1999
Running time: 105 minutes
Synopsis: Oscar nominated film starring Ioan Gruffudd and Nia Roberts in the title roles.
It’s the story of two lovers whose relationship crosses religious and social divides in a Valleys’ community in the early nineteenth century. The film also stars Maureen Lipman and David Horovitch as Solomon’s parents and William Thomas and Sue Jones Davies as Gaenor’s parents.

Ffilm a enwebwyd am Oscar gydag Ioan Gruffudd a Nia Roberts yn chwarae’r prif rannau. Stori serch yw hi lle mae perthynas y cariadon yn croesi rhaniadau crefyddol a chymdeithasol mewn cymuned yng Nghymoedd y De ar ddechrau’r 19eg ganrif.  Maureen Lipman a David Horovitch sy’n chwarae rhieni’r Iddew, Solomon gyda William Thomas a Sue Jones Davies yn chwarae rhieni Gaenor.

Format: Please check with booking contact.
Booking contact: Park Circus. Mark Truesdale – mark@parkcircus.com

Rhosyn a Rhith / Coming up Roses

Dir: Stephen Bayly
Release: 1986
Running time: 93 minutes
Synopsis: An award-winning comedy film set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued by money problems, devises an ingenious plan to make money.

Ffilm  sydd wedi’i lleoli yn y Cymoedd- mae’n adrodd hanes cynllun craff un dyn i wneud arian. Mae Trefor yn gaeth i’w fagwraeth dlawd yn un o gymoedd dirwasgedig Cymru. Pan fo sinema’r pentref yn cau mae’r taflunydd di-waith mewn cyfyngder ariannol. I oresgyn y broblem, benthyca Trefor arian oddi wrth Eli, ar yr amod y bydd yn talu am ei hangladd os bydd Eli yn marw cyn i Trefor ei had- dalu.

Format: Limited digi beta and dvd copies available
Booking contact: S4C. Please contact Film Hub Wales here.

Hedd Wyn

Dir: Paul Turner
Release: 1992
Running time: 123 minutes
Synopsis: Oscar-nominated film starring Huw Garmon in the title role. Poetry was Ellis Evans’ passion and his life’s ambition was to be chaired at a National Eisteddfod. He achieved this at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1917. Unfortunately, he never knew of his success as he was fighting the Germans in the trenches of Ypres, where he died during his first day on the Western Front.

Cyfle arall i weld y ffilm a enwebwyd am Oscar gyda Huw Garmon yn y brif ran.Barddoniaeth oedd angerdd mawr bywyd Ellis Evans, a’i brif uchelgais oedd ennill cadair yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. Llwyddodd i wneud hynny yn Eisteddfod Penbedw 1917. Yn anffodus, ni ddaeth i wybod am ei lwyddiant; roedd e’n ymladd yn erbyn yr Almaenwyr yn Ypres a bu farw ar ei ddiwrnod cyntaf ar y Ffrynt Gorllewinol. Dyma stori Ellis Evans, un o feirdd enwocaf Cymru.

Format: Digit Beta or DVD (please confirm with S4C).
Booking contact: S4C. Please contact Film Hub Wales here.