BAFTA Scotland and BAFTA Cymru have joined forces to create a programme of award winning, emerging new work. The screening will take place at The Celtic Media Festival, Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway, Ireland, on Friday 18th April 2008.
SCOTLAND:
Breadmakers (Yasmin Fedda, 10mins)
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The workers interact using individual expressions, repetitive speech and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships with each other and their support workers. In what can seem a chaotic workplace, there is a mix of sounds that can approach levels of white noise amidst the carefully structured everyday process of bread production.
Butterfly (Yulia Mahr, 12mins)
When Gemma was born the midwife said she was the fairest child she'd ever seen. Not long after she was diagnosed with albinism, a melanin deficiency which causes very fair hair and skin, and poor eyesight. This rare and intimate portrait explores Gemma's perspective about her condition which has often made her an outsider - but equally determined to lead a normal life. "I'll never be able to drive a car, but that's about it," she says as she climbs the highest indoor climbing arena in Europe. A film about a courageous woman accepting difference.
How to Save a Fish from Drowning (Kelly Neal, 12mins)
How to Save a Fish from Drowning is a quirky film about the death of white rural America told through the voices of three old men fishing on a frozen lake. In a landscape cloaked in snow and hovering in a bright nothingness, they escape their wives, chew the fat about another neighbour having had to sell his farm, and they wait....
WALES:
Mummy's Boy (Nicholas Davies and Oskari Korenius, 15 mins)
When a twelve year old MARK discovers a drowned sheep he experiences a traumatic reminder of his brother's death. Driven by anger at his grief-stricken mothers inability to recognise his suffering, he destroys the shrine -like sanctuary she has created in her deceased son's room
Beryl, Y Briodas a'r Fiedo ( Joanna Quinn & Les Mills, 9 mins)
On acquiring a new Digi Video Cam Beryl becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking using it to articulate her desires. Dreams and thoughts as a video diary. As "cineaste par excellence" she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to "strut her stuff filmically" with disastrous and often hilarious results.
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