Fonds GB 0210 FFILMCY - Ffilm Cymru Scripts

Established in 2006 and formerly known as the Film Agency for Wales, Ffilm Cymru Wales offers support to Welsh or Wales-based writers, directors and producers by means of funding and mentoring. It aims to develop and promote the economic, educational and cultural benefit of film and to bring filmmakers together with a diversity of audiences and settings, such as schools and community regeneration projects.

John Hefin (1941-2012), director, producer and head of drama at BBC Wales, began his career in television in 1960, where he would go on to be one of the co-creators of the long-running Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm. His subsequent credits include co-writer and director of the 1978 comedy rugby film Grand Slam and director of the 1981 nine-part drama series The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, as well as the production and directing of numerous other Welsh- and English-language television series, dramas and documentaries. In 1988 he became artistic director of Ffilm Cymru, in which role he was responsible for utilising S4C funds in the commissioning of films from independant Welsh producers. He also worked in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University and served as Chair of both Film Commission Wales and of Welsh media journal Cyfrwng. He retired from the BBC in 1993. In 2009 he was awarded an MBE for services to Welsh film and drama and, in 2012, a BAFTA Cymru Special Award for his outstanding contribution to television drama. At the 2003 National Eisteddfod, he was honoured with the white robes of the Gorsedd of Bards.

Richard J. Staniforth was born in London in 1955. He began his career as an actor and theatre manager before joining the Welsh independant company Teliesyn as film and television producer, producing more than thirty features over the subsequent decade. He then joined Ffilm Cymru as Head of Production prior to setting up his own company, Persona Film Development, in 1990. In 1995, he joined the Welsh production company Siriol. Following a period as freelance producer, he established the Cardiff-based production company Ateb Media Limited in 2008. Staniforth is former Chair of the Association of Independant Producers in Wales and of BAFTA Wales. He was BAFTA nominated for his television dramas Fallen Sons (1994) and Whistling Boy (1996).

1/2/10: Some Anglo-Saxon.
1/9/4: Some Catalan.
1/10/7: Some Latin text.
1/18/5: Some German, Dutch and Italian.
2/3: One facsimile transmission in Spanish.
2/6: One item in French and one item including French.
One item in Welsh and one item including Welsh.
One item includes Italian and German.
One item in Swedish.