Beacons Webinar: Animation
Are you an animator, born or based in Wales, and aspiring to write and direct your first industry-funded short film masterpiece? Or perhaps a writer, director or producer looking to collaborate with an animator on a new project?
Join Ffilm Cymru, BFI NETWORK Wales and our friends at Cardiff Animation Festival to find out more about our Beacons short film fund, which is run in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and reopening for applications in April 2021.
During this free webinar we will be joined by special guest Beacons alumni Lauren Orme, Shwan Nosratpour and Efa Blosse-Mason, who will share their own experiences of making animated short films through the fund.
You will then have the opportunity to find out more about Beacons, with tips on how to make your application stand out. There will be a Q&A at the end of the event.
Beacons provides funding as well as creative and practical support, training and mentoring opportunities to help filmmakers advance their careers. Short films produced through the scheme have achieved success at festivals, won numerous awards, been broadcast on BBC Wales and released on iPlayer. Find out more about Beacons here.
Please note that we are hosting further events focused specifically on Documentary and Live Action Fiction. We invite you to sign up for the event you feel is most relevant to you – you are of course welcome to sign up to several different sessions.
About our special guests
Lauren Orme
Lauren is an award-winning animator and director specialised in 2D digital and mixed media animation. She directs and produces through her studio and production company Picl Animation. Her short films have been screened at festivals around the world, and her Ffilm Cymru and BFI NETWORK-funded short CREEPY PASTA SALAD was shortlisted for the 2020 Best Short Animation BAFTA. Lauren is also Festival Director of Cardiff Animation Festival, a biennial four-day celebration of animation for everyone held at Chapter. She has been running events since 2014 when she founded Cardiff Animation Nights, popular bi-monthly screenings of award-winning independent animated films from around in Cardiff City Centre. Lauren makes animation for broadcast, documentaries, theatre and live performance, and animated short films, music videos, corporate videos and charity campaigns. She has worked with clients and collaborators including Channel 4, ITN, BBC3, S4C, Twt Productions, Boom Cymru, Wales Millennium Centre, National Theatre, Charlotte Church, Joanna Quinn, Be Aware Productions, The Globe Theatre and Arts Council Wales.
Shwan Nosratpour
Shwan is a Cardiff-based writer/director and animator. His first short film, DRUIDS, was supported by the Beacons fund and is due for release in 2021. Shwan is also currently developing an animated feature project with support from Ffilm Cymru.
Efa Blosse-Mason
Efa Blosse-Mason is a filmmaker from Cardiff who wrote and directed a short Welsh language film ‘Cwch Deilen/Leaf Boat’ which is currently on BBC iplayer. Efa went to university at the Bristol School of Animation and her graduate film ‘Earthly Delights’ won the Royal Television Society Award for best student animation in 2019. Her work is usually focused on the themes of women, LGBTQ+ stories and nature.
