Channel Four Online Documentary Broadband Channel Offers Unique Venue To Launch New Welsh Film Talent

FOURDOCS

FourDocs is a broadband channel from Channel 4 that is THE place to watch and upload four-minute documentaries.

This is the first time a major broadcaster has offered this kind of opportunity to everyone, and for free. Make your film and upload it. It's as simple as that.

The FourDocs Guides to Documentary Making - 1. Get Thinking



What you get:

Step-by-step guides on how to plan, shoot, edit and compress your fact-based documentary.

Access to an archive of documentary greats and interviews for inspiration and the chance to have your film uploaded for the whole world to view.



Then what?

Apart from a great opportunity for any filmmakers to get their work out there, other FourDocs users can review your film, offering their comments and constructive criticism.



And Channel 4's very own Kate Vogel - commissioning editor for 3 Minute Wonder - keeps a close eye on all uploaded films to spot talented filmmakers she can commission for this innovative strand.

FourDocs filmmaker Tomas Leach has recently been commissioned to make a series for 3 Minute Wonder after he showcased his film, The Glass-Eye Maker on the site.



Deadline:

There is no deadline. You can upload and view films whenever you want.

So what are you waiting for?

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For more information go to

channel4.com/fourdocs

For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

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Hollywood Is Watching: Iris Prize Short Film Awards Brings International Spotlight to Cardiff Arts Scene October 4-7

'Iris Prize' comes to Cardiff, with £25,000 up for grabs for the winner of the best short film.

Pictured above: K & Nelson kiss in the short film 'K': Director: Juan Martin Simons
Country of Origin: Spain
Category: Shorts
Cast: Miguel Ángel Jiménez & Álex Quiroga
Date of Film: 2005

You can cast your vote at the viewings. Plus from Thursday to Sunday, Chapter Cinema and Cineworld will be packed with a feast of feature films, specially brought in by the Iris Prize:

Thursday 4th October 2007
16.00 Shorts Programme 1 -Chapter -£4.00 (£3.50)
19.00 Shorts Programme 2 -Cineworld-£4.00 (£3.50)
20.30 The Bubble -Cineworld - £5.00 (£4.00)

14.30 - Writer's forum @ Chapter
- with Cath Treganna (writer of Torchwood), David Llewellyn and Brent Gorski. FREE

Friday 5th October 2007
12.30 Shorts Programme 3 -Chapter -£4.00 (£3.50)
18.00 The Bubble -Cineworld - £5.00 (£4.00)
19.00 Shorts Programme 4 -Chapter-£4.00 (£3.50)
20.30 Holding Trevor -Chapter- £5.00 (£4.00)
22.15 The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror-Cineworld£5.00 (£4.00)

11.00 Producer’s Forum - Chapter - FREE discussion

Saturday 6th October 2007
19.00 Fel Arall -Cineworld- £5.00 (£4.00)
18.00 One Two Another -Chapter- £5.00 (£4.00)
17.00 Tick Tock Lullaby -Cineworld- £5.00 (£4.00)
14.30 The Picture of Dorian Gray -Chapter- £5.00 (£4.00)

21.00 Iris Prize Awards Evening -Cineworld

Plus also on this week:
Bobby Conn plays Clwb Ifor Bach on Thursday 4th October 8pm - £7

http://www.myspace.com/bobbyconn

Anthony Shapland's 'Suddenly After A Long Silence' excellent 'staged' CCTV and documentary film installations are showing in Chapter's Gallery - FREE



IRIS PRIZE 'SPECIAL OFFER' PRICES:

Special Offers - Unfortunately, the below offers are not available online. Please go to Chapter or call the box office. 029 2030 4400

5 tickets for the price of 2!
See all 30 of the short films competing for the 2007 Iris Prize for £8.00 (£7.00). All you need to do is buy two tickets for separate programmes and you’ll receive tickets for the other programmes for free!

3 films for the price of 2
Pay for 2 separate features films in one transaction and you’ll receive a free ticket to any other feature film of your choice.

The Iris Prize Festival 4 - 6 October 2007

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Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

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Celebrated Performance Scholar Dr. Heike Roms at Cardiff ATRiuM 17 October

[Pictured above; DR. HEIKE ROMS]

CCI - DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND MUSIC

RESEARCH SEMINAR

It is our pleasure to present the first (of many) research seminar(s) in the new building and an even greater pleasure to welcome Dr. Heike Roms.

'What's Welsh for Performance?: Constructing an Archive of Performance Art in Wales'

DR. HEIKE ROMS

WEDNESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2007

5PM

Please come to the ATRiuM Reception, Room to be announced.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED

ALL WELCOME!

This presentation introduces What¹s Welsh for Performance? (Beth yw performance yn Gymraeg?), a major research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of performance art in Wales.

Performance art is now widely recognized as representing a vital part of the visual arts in this country, yet one currently searches in vain for any records or critical evaluations of its practices in accounts of Welsh art history.

The project is an attempt to address this neglect.



The presentation discusses some of the methodological implications of archiving performance work with reference to the first ten years of the art form after its initial appearance in Wales in 1968, before presenting the two main strands of the Welsh performance and a publicly staged Oral History series.

Dr Heike Roms is lecturer in Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University.

She has published on contemporary performance practice, particularly on work emanating from Wales, for publications such as Performance Research, Inter, Frakcija, Live Art Magazine, New Welsh Review, Planet and Cyfrwng.



She is project director of What's Welsh for Performance?, a major research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of performance art in Wales (www.performance-wales.org).



Aberystwyth Arts Centre is a Department of the

University of Wales Aberystwyth

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Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Dr. Mark Leslie Woods

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© 2007 Dr. Mark Leslie Woods

Fflics - Wales Screen Classics Festival Offers 4-Day Autumnal Retrospective in Aberystwyth from 25 -28 October 2007

Fflics - Wales Screen Classics festival launched!

A major new film festival has been launched, taking place in Aberystwyth from 25 -28 October 2007. Fflics - Wales Screen Classics is a four-day film festival showcasing the history of both Welsh cinema and the Welsh on the big screen; from the earliest cinematic pioneers until the end of the nitrate film era.

Gwyl Ffilm Fflics Film Festival



Fflics is a joint project between The National Library of Wales and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, and will include over 25 films filmed in the first half of the 20th century, together with a series of discussions, live musical performances and special events.

Cinematic highlights include a restoration print screening of 'How Green Was My Valley' the premier screening of the newly restored 'Y Chwarelwr', a gala screening of 'The Life Story of David Lloyd George', plus many, many more films from a classic era.



Andrew Green, Librarian, The National Library of Wales said:

'Fflics is a wonderful opportunity to mark Wales' early contributions to the world of cinema, and to see the films on the big screen where they belong.

We are sure that the festival will appeal to a wide range of people - from cinema buffs keen to see work that is rarely screened, to those keen to gain an historical perspective of Wales in the first half of the century.



Its going to be a fascinating four days.'

Fflics offers a unique opportunity of seeing and discussing rarely seen classics on the big screen. Cinematic classics will include:

How Green Was My Valley * Proud Valley * Silent Village * Corn is Green * Jerry The Tyke * Blue Scar * Valley of Song * The Citadel * Fame is the Spur* Dead of Night * Y Chwarelwr (The Quarryman) * Run for your Money * The Rat * Shop at Sly Corner * Stars Look Down * Call of the Blood * The Life Story of David Lloyd George * Next of Kin * David * The Last Days of Dolwyn* The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp * Plus Shorts by Arthur Cheetham



The festival's website is now live, and will be regularly updated over the next few months as additional events are confirmed. Gold Passes, which provide entry to every event over the four days will be on sale from 8th June, with early bird booking discounts on offer.

For the latest information please visit

Fflics - Wales Screen Classics Festival

More information please contact the following:
For Fflics festival - Llinos Medi Jones, 01970 632 534, lmj@llgc.org.uk
For National Library - Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Louise Amery 01970 6222889, lla@aber.ac.uk



Aberystwyth Arts Centre is a Department of the

University of Wales Aberystwyth

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Dr. Mark Leslie Woods

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Welsh-American Scholars Plan International Summer Conference in Toronto July 31-August 2, 2008

North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH)

International Conference on Welsh Studies -- Call for Papers

July 31-August 2, 2008 The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

The NAASWCH Program Committee seeks diverse perspectives on Wales and Welsh culture

-- as well as proposals focused on the Welsh in North America

-- from many disciplines including: history, literature, languages, art, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, philosophy, music, and religion.

NAASWCH invites participation from faculty, postgraduate/graduate students and independent scholars from North America, the United Kingdom and elsewhere.



Those wishing to present a paper suitable for a 20 minute reading may submit an abstract (maximum one-page).
Proposals for thematic sessions, panel presentations, or other formats are also welcome.

Please include a brief (one-page) vita with your submission.
The abstract – proposal deadline is Dec. 21, 2007; but early proposals are encouraged.

Participants will be notified by mid-February. E-mail submissions are welcome and will be acknowledged promptly.

If you have not received confirmation of your electronic submission within one week, please resend the document.



NAASWCH works to promote scholarship on all aspects of Welsh culture and history;

to develop connections between teachers and scholars in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom who are committed to the study of Welsh culture, history, language, and literature;

to provide an intellectual forum in which scholars and teachers of Welsh culture may share their research and teaching experience, and to provide support for the study of Welsh-North American history and culture.



See the NAASWCH website for additional information:

NAASWCH

Please submit abstracts or session proposals by no later than Friday, Dec. 21, 2007 to:

Dr. Katharine Anderson, History Department,
Ohio Dominican University, 1216 Sunbury Road,
Columbus, OH 43219, USA; andersok1@ohiodominican.edu .

Those who are not submitting proposals but would like to receive conference information should contact: Dr. Melinda Gray, NAASWCH Secretary, 15 Woodbridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA; mgrayk@comcast.net.

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

Smart & Sexy? Your Queer Advantage is waiting!

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Queer Advantage, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Mordechai Razing Ziggurats, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Mordechai's Post-Evangelical-Granola on the World Wide Web.

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods