Beacons Webinar: Live Action Fiction
Are you an emerging filmmaker, born or based in Wales, and aspiring to make your first industry-funded short film masterpiece? Or looking to collaborate with a Welsh director on a new project?
Join Ffilm Cymru and BFI NETWORK Wales 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, producer Stella Nwimo and writer-director Carys Lewis, who will share their own experiences of making short films with support from 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 Animation. 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
Stella Nwimo
Stella is a seasoned producer of shorts and features and has worked with an array of Welsh filmmaking talent. Her many credits include the Beacons-supported short films THINGS THAT FALL FROM THE SKY (written and directed by Catherine Linstrum) and EGG SOLDIER (written and directed by Guymon Cheung). Stella recently produced NUCLEAR, the debut feature from Catherine Linstrum supported by Ffilm Cymru. She is also working with Welsh writer-director Tracy Spottiswoode on an ambitious new short film.
Carys Lewis
Carys is a Welsh-Canadian writer and director who most recently worked with Welsh National Opera as their Filmmaker in Residence where she created a trilogy of films: GRAM GIRL, ALT, and FLUORESCENCE (London Film Festival ‘19). Carys is developing her directorial debut, BLUE MOTHER, with the support of BFI Network and is co-writing the feature film, HOW BLACK MOTHERS SAY I LOVE YOU, with playwright Trey Anthony, which advanced to the second round of the 2021 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. The film is supported by Telefilm Canada & Ffilm Cymru Wales. The team are adapting the story for TV, in development with the CBC. Carys is also developing a half-hour comedy, WHITE GIRL MAGIC, with CBC. Carys wrote and directed a BFI funded comedy, STUFFED, which was nominated for a Welsh BAFTA in 2019 for Best Short Film. Her LGBTQ+ Welsh-language short, AFIACH, premiered at the Iris Prize Festival and was screened on BBC iplayer and S4C. As an advocate for equal representation of women in front of and behind the camera, Carys is the founder of FEM SCRIPT LAB, a writing lab for female and non-binary screenwriters in Toronto. She has been a Writer in Residence at Theatr Clwyd and was selected for BFI 2019 London Film Festival NETWORK cohort and BAFTA Crew 2019/2020. Carys is a proud graduate of George Brown Theatre School. She lives in Toronto and Cardiff with her dog Ziggy.
