Industry Panel

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 Sharon Morden

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
	David Sproxton: Aardman; Flushed Away, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, Creature Comforts, Shaun the Sheep
	Tim Allen: Kerpowclinic; Corpse Bride, Little Robots, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Peter and the Wolf.
	Robin Lyons: Calon; Susie, Hilltop Hospital, Romuald the Raindeer, Under Milkwood, Hana's Helpline.
	Brian Carroll: Crimzn
	Joanna Quinn: Beryl Productions; The Canterbury Tales, Famous Fred, Girl's Night Out, Dreams and Desires.
	Jon Rennie: Dinamo; CNEX, Little White Lies, Owl Creek Bridge, Mutant Chronicles.
	Jason Jenner: Escape Studios
	Owen Stickler: Dinamo; CNEX, Short Shorts, Love is Strange
	Lee Danskin: Escape Studios; Lost in Space
Cinematography
	Tony Yates: 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.
	Paul Turner: Hedd Wyn, Pork Pie, My Pretty Valley, Wild Justice
	Nia Dryhurst: Claudia and Gwilym, Fel Arall
	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, Band of Brothers, Little Black Book
Post-production (Sound)
	Simon Jones: Founder of Soundworks; Daddy's Girl, Human Traffic, Caerdydd, Rancid Aluminium.
	Paul McFadden: Founder of Soundworks; Daddy's Girl, Human Traffic, Caerdydd, Rancid Aluminium.
	Dai Shell: 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
Sound Acquisition
	Sandy McRae: Oliver Twist, The Jewel of the Nile, Nairobi Affair, Poirot, The Royale Family, Bleak House
Producing
	Peter Edwards: ITV Wales, Film Agency for Wales; A Way of Life, Bride of War, Darklands.
	Richard Staniforth: Oliver's Travels, Fallen Sons, Knuckleball, Six Days, Will Six, Say it with Flowers, Sleeping with Mickey, Cracking Up.
	Paul Turner: Hedd Wyn, Pork Pie, Wild Justice, My Pretty Valley.
	Karen Lewis: The Chatterly Affair, Unforgiven, Dad.
	Ed Thomas: Artistic Director of the Fiction Factory, CaerdyddHouse of America, Fallen Suns (BAFTA Cymru award) and Dal Yma Nawr.
	Stephen Bayly: Ex-director of the National Film and Television School; Mrs Dalloway, Coming up Roses, And Pigs Might Fly.
	Julian Richards: Prolific Films, Features: Summer Scars, The Last Horror Movie, Silent Cry, Darklands.
	David Marlow: Silverlight Productions; Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Dead Funny
Screenwriting
	Sam Snape: All Creatures Great and Small, Casualty, Medics.
	Julian Richards: Prolific Films, Features: Summer Scars, The Last Horror Movie, Silent Cry, Darklands.
	Ed Thomas: Artistic Director of the Fiction Factory, Caerdydd:House of America, Fallen Suns (BAFTA Cymru award) and Dal Yma Nawr.
	Marc Evans: Snowcake, Trauma, House of America, Beautiful Mistake.
	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
	Keith Maxwell Big Nothing, The Contractor, Lesbian Vampire Killers, Abraham's Point, Plots with a View.
	Amelia Shankland: Skins, The Baker, Carrie's War, The Giblet Boys, Hearts of Gold.
	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
	Iona Williams - Cheif Executive, Cyfle