Industry Panel
Industry Links
The SSAW project is fostering close links with the support agencies in Wales and is working to develop active synergies with the Creative Industries Hub, The Film Agency for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government's IP Fund. We also collaborates with ITV Wales, the Wales Screen Commission and numerous Welsh production companies through our placement service.
Skillset Screen Academy Wales (SSAW) is unique within the SSA network™ in that we have established an Industry Liaison Panel whose members cover the eight specialisms offered on the curriculum. This advisory panel offers guidance on curriculum development and the provision of masterclasses and helps to promote the SSAW project to the wider film industry in Wales and the UK.
Further members are invited to join the Industry Liaison Panel on a rolling
basis. To contact members of the industry panel please email Rhiannon Jarvie.
Currently the eight specialisms and the respective members of the
Panel, which is chaired by Bryn Roberts, Managing Director of Barcud Derwen,
are as follows:
Acting for the screen
Ed Thomas: Artistic Director of the Fiction Factory, Caerdydd; House of America, Fallen Suns (BAFTA Cymru award) and Dal Yma Nawr.
Julian Richards: Prolific Films, Features: Summer Scars, The Last Horror Movie, Silent Cry, Darklands.
Marc Evans: Snowcake, Trauma, My Little Eye, House of America, Beautiful Mistake.
Stephen Bayly: Ex-director of the National Film and Television School; Mrs Dalloway, Coming up Roses, And Pigs Might Fly.
Animation
Joanna Quinn: Beryl Productions; The Canterbury Tales, Famous Fred, Girl's Night Out, Dreams and Desires.
Robin Lyons: Calon; Susie, Hilltop Hospital, Romuald the Raindeer, Under Milkwood, Hana's Helpline.
Owen Stickler: Dinamo; CNEX, Short Shorts, Love is Strange
Bruce Steele: Founder member of Glassorks, London where he was Head of Special Projects and Director of Visual Effects. He is now a Computer Graphics Consultant in South Wales.
Cinematography
Tony Yates BSC: The Green Door, The British UFO Files, Hitler of the Andes.
Alan Trow BSC : Up'n'Under; Dragonworld; Monolith; Hope & Glory (TV series 1)
Directing
Ed Thomas, Artistic Director of the Fiction Factory, Caerdydd; House of America, Fallen Suns (BAFTA Cymru award) and Dal Yma Nawr.
Julian Richards: Prolific Films, Features: Summer Scars, The Last Horror Movie, Silent Cry, Darklands.
Marc Evans, Snowcake, Trauma, My Little Eye, House of America, Beautiful Mistake.
Post-production (Image)
John Richards: Daddy's Girl, Doctor Who, Plots with a View, One of the Hollywood 10.
Post-production (Sound)
Simon Jones: Founder of Soundworks; Daddy's Girl, Human Traffic, Caerdydd, Rancid Aluminium.
Tim Ricketts, BBC Wales
Dr Who, Torchwood, Carrie’s War, One of the Hollywood Ten, The Sarah Jane
Adventures
Peter Jeffreys, BBC Wales
Dr Who, Torchwood, Animating Shakespeare, Timewatch, Private Life of a
Masterpiece
Dai Shell: Sounds in Motion; Rancid Aluminium, Chosen.
Producing
Fizzy Oppe: Fiction Factory, Caerdydd; Dal Yma Nawr, Textual @traction.
Peter Edwards: ITV Wales, Film Agency for Wales; A Way of Life, Bride of War, Darklands.
Paul Turner: Hedd Wyn, Pork Pie, Wild Justice, My Pretty Valley.
Julian Richards: Prolific Films, Features: Summer Scars, The Last Horror Movie, Silent Cry, Darklands.
Screenwriting
Sam Snape: All Creatures Great and Small, Casualty, Medics.
Jill James: Actress/Producer/Agent; Executive Director-TAPS and Director-Culverhouse and James Ltd.
David Pearson (producer, writer, director): Started and ran 10x10, the new filmmakers series BBC 2, South West Screen Development Executive for Screenplays 2003; currently Director of the International Screenwriters Festival, Producer, Arturi Films (slate of features including the Curse Of Onan), nominated for two BAFTAs, a Prix Italia, a Prix Europa, as well as winning an RTS Award, FIPA, Prix Nicki, Glenfiddich Award.
Set Design
Venita Gribble
Carrie’s War, I was a rat, Care, Jack of Hearts, Mortimer’s Law, Y Mapiwr
Nick Burnell
Dr Who, Cowbois ac Injans, various adverts
Industry Panel Observers:
Pauline Burt - CEO, Film Agency for Wales
Allison Dowzell - Development, Creative Business Wales
Gwawr Hughes - Director, Skillset Cymru
Iona Williams - CEO, CYFLE