Meet our 2025 DocFest Delegation
Ffilm Cymru Wales and BFI NETWORK Wales are taking six emerging documentary filmmakers to Sheffield DocFest this month.
The delegates were selected from an open call on the basis of their outstanding creative work and their ambitions to progress to feature documentary filmmaking for the big screen. They will be attending the full duration of the festival to meet industry and immerse themselves in the various programmes, benefiting from one-to-one support from Ffilm Cymru Wales, BFI NETWORK Wales and DocFest.
The six filmmakers selected to go to Sheffield are:
Gilly Booth
Gilly Booth, an artist working with moving image/sound and co-director of Hijack Film Production. Her art practice re-interprets, archives and investigates how the lost function of architecture can persist in cultural memory. She uses documentary techniques to record lived encounters between reality and fiction, and translates them across geographical locations and linguistic boundaries. A current project is feature documentary Eduardo Paolozzi, Archaeology of a Future, developed with support from Ffilm Cymru Wales. Selected films/installations have been exhibited within international film festivals and galleries, including ICA London, Pompidou Centre / Paris, Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo, MOMA / New York, The Museum of the Forgotten / Zurich and Venice Architecture Art Biennale / Italy.
Simon Clode
Simon is a Welsh filmmaker and video artist dedicated to documentary storytelling that tackles pressing global issues. He has received BFI NETWORK / Ffilm Cymru Wales Horizons funding award and the Ffilm Cymru Wales Feature Development funding award for his debut feature documentary The Hunter and the Dragon. His work has been showcased at BAFTA-qualifying festivals, is a finalist at the British Short Film Awards, and has been broadcast on the BBC. Supported by Arts Council Wales, Simon has presented his artist films at key events like Qalandiya International in Palestine and in art galleries and museums across the UK, exploring themes of the climate crisis and Human rights.
Siobhan Logue
Siobhan Logue is an award-winning Welsh producer. She began her career at the BBC and has made distinctive documentaries and network series for UK & US broadcasters. Siobhan has a passion for music stories and has worked with over 100 artists and musicians on projects ranging from feature doc Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat to BAFTA Cymru winning series Music for Misfits, from BBC biopics Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell and John Denver: Country Boy to BAFTA nominated short, toni_with_an_i. She founded independent company Songbird with the ambition of telling compelling, meaningful cultural stories of our times across all platforms, from online to cinema. Songbird’s new film The Sound of Protest explores human rights issues through iconic songs and was made in Wales.
Sara Nourizadeh
Sara Nourizadeh is a Welsh-Iranian director, producer and writer working across documentary and scripted film. Her recent documentary, Finding Hope (BBC2 Wales), which tells the story of teenage refugees, is available on BBC iPlayer and was produced by her company Avalanche Productions and Boom Cymru. Other credits include Kids with Cameras: Diary of a Children’s Ward and Agony and Ecstasy: A Year at the English National Ballet. In scripted, Sara is the writer-director of Marriage Test, a BFI NETWORK / Ffilm Cymru Wales Beacons-funded short set to film this summer, and her debut series FRANK is currently in development with 5Acts.
Angharad Parry
Angharad has just completed the Women in Film and TV mentoring cohort 2025 to pivot into producing after a decade working as a Script Supervisor. She set up Ravenspoint Films in North Wales to purse her passion to make exciting projects across genres. She also runs the SeeMôr International films Festival on Anglesey supporting filmmakers in North West Wales and celebrating environmental awareness regarding our oceans.
Elin Rhys
Elin founded Telesgop in 1993 and has overseen hundreds of hours of productions; documentaries for S4C and BBC Wales; music docs like Meatloaf-In and Out of Hell, John Denver Country Boy, Music for Misfits, the Story of Indie for BBC FOUR; Edward the VIII Murderous Mistress and Wallis Simpson’s Secret letters for Channel 4; Parasites - Eating Us Alive for Discovery US and The Prince and The Bomber for BBC Wales / S4C; live event coverage for the BBC and S4C’s flagship farming current affairs series Ffermio. She became the company Chair in 2019, which has enabled her to return to her first love - production.
Climate Storytellers
Four filmmakers currently researching & developing immersive documentary projects through our Climate Stories Fund with Media Cymru will also be attending the festival. Gavin Porter, Ashley Leung, Remi Bumstead and Richard Billingham will be able to join sessions such as Transforming Climate Storytelling through Collaboration & Creativity, with Liz Bonnin.
Sheffield DocFest
Sheffield DocFest is the UK’s leading documentary festival and one of the world’s most influential markets for documentary projects.
This year’s festival opens on 18th June with the world premiere of Ffilm Cymru Wales funded feature Still Pushing Pineapples. A melancholy yet heartfelt story of the former singer of pop band Black Lace, the film is directed by Kim Hopkins and co-produced by Nan Davies, who attended the festival last year as part of Ffilm Cymru Wales’ delegation.