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 collaborate 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 Hannah Raybould
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:
Chair: Bryn Roberts, MD Barcud Derwen Group
Screenwriting:
Ed Thomas (Fiction Factory)
Credits include:
Caerdydd, House of America, BAFTA winner Fallen Suns and Dal:Yma/Nawr
Stephen Bayly (Sly Fox Films)
Credits include:
Ex-director of NFTS, Mrs Dalloway, Coming up Roses, And Pigs might fly
Sam Snape
Credits include:
All Creatures Great and Small, Casualty, Medics
Jill James
Actress/Producer/Agent;
Executive Director – TAPS;
Director - Culverhouse and James Ltd
David Pearson
Arturi Films and Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival
Roger Stennett
Credits include:
Watership Down – The Tale of a Mouse, Sotty’s Amazing Adveture
Directing:
Marc Evans
Credits include:
My Little Eye, House of America, Trauma, Snowcake, Beautiful Mistake, Dal Yma Nawr, Resurection Man and currently working on Caitlin.
Ed Thomas (Fiction Factory)
Credits include:
Caerdydd, House of America, BAFTA winner Fallen Suns and Dal:Yma/Nawr
Chris Foster
Credits include:
Minim , Overland, Gwen John: Strange Beauties, Beautiful Mistake (Co- Director), United 93 ( 2nd Unit Director), Green Zone ( 2nd UnitDirector) The Bourne Ultimatum (Visual Consultant)
Ceri Sherlock
Professor, School of Drama,
Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts,
Credits include:
Dafydd, Branwen, Chameleon
Wyndham Price (Spinning Head Films)
Credits include:
Lovely Day, Hope Eternal, Abraham’s Point, Mabel, Covered
Producing:
Ed Thomas (Fiction Factory)
Credits include:
Caerdydd, House of America, BAFTA winner Fallen Suns and Dal:Yma/Nawr
Stephen Bayly (Sly Fox Films)
Credits include:
Ex director of NFTS, Mrs Dalloway, Coming up Roses, And Pigs might fly
Richard Staniforth (Ateb)
Credits include:
Calon Gaeth, Au Pair, Dafydd, Powerless, Knuckleball
Gub Neal
Credits include:
Prime Suspect, Cracker, Sweeny Todd, Heart, If Only, The Wind, Sherlock, Hillsborough
David Pearson
Arturi Films and Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival
Karen Lewis
Credits include:
Unforgiven, The Chatterly Affair, Dad
Dawn Walters
Credits include: The Chatterly Affair, Carrie’s War, Jack of Hearts, Outside the Rules, Care, Justifying War
Acting for the screen/Working with actors:
Owen Teale
Credits include:
Doctor Who, Torchwood, Great Expectations, Robin Hood, Death of a Salesman, King Arthur, Spooks, Satellite City Love me Forever, Ballykissangel
Marc Evans
Credits include:
Patagonia, My Little Eye, House of America, Trauma, Snowcake, Beautiful Mistake, Dal Yma Nawr, Resurection Man
Stephen Bayly (Sly Fox Films)
Credits include:
Ex director of NFTS, Mrs Dalloway, Coming up Roses, And Pigs might fly
Nia Dryhurst
Credits include:
Claudia and Gwilym, Fel Arall
Post Production (Screen)
John Richards (JR Films)
Credits include: Daddy’s Girl, It’s a boy thing, Doctor Who, Plots with a View, One of the Hollywood 10, Miracle Maker, Little Black Book, Band of Brothers
John Parker
Credits include: Doctor Who Confidential, Tribe, Private Life of a Masterpiece, BAFTA Award for Hallelujah Kids
Post Production (Sound):
Dai Shell (Sounds in Motion)
Credits include:
Rancid Aluminium, Chosen
Paul McFadden (Bang Productions)
Credits include:
Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, Mr Nice, Dr Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Abraham’s Point, Kavannagh QC
Greg Provan (Cranc Productions)
Credits include:
Hilltop Hospital, Fireman Sam, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Con Passionate, Martha Jac A Sianco, Tracey Beaker, Young Dracula, Dal Yma Nawr, Beautiful Mistake, Amazon with Bruce Parry, Coal House.
Sound Acquisition:
Sandy McCrae
Credits include:
Oliver Twist, The Jewel of the Nile, Nairobi Affair, Dirty Dozen IV, Poirot, The Royale Family, Bleak House
Animation:
Joanna Quinn (Beryl Productions)
Credits include:
The Canterbury Tales, Famous Fred, Girl’s Night Out, Whatever it takes
Robin Lyons (Calon TV)
Credits include:
Susie, Help I’m a teenage outlaw, Hilltop Hospital, Romuald the Raindeer, Under Milkwood, Hannah's Helpline, Igam Ogam
Jon Rennie
Credits include:
CNEX, Little White Lies, Owl Creek Bridge, Mutant Chronicles
Bruce Steele D.Tech. (Hon.) MD of Hyperspace Limited
Credits include:
Red Dwarf, Solomon Kane, Nightwatching and Dreamkeeper
Matt Leonard (Sphere FX)
Credits include:
Lara Croft:Tomb Raider, Lost in Space, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Scrapheap Challenge and Casualty.
Brian Carroll
Crimzn
Tim Allen (Kerpowclinic)
Credits include:
Corpse Bride, Little Robots, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Peter and the Wolf
Cinematography:
Tony Yates
Credits include:
The Green Door, the British UFO Files, Hitler of the Andes
Alan Trow
Credits include:
Up'n'Under; Dragonworld; Monolith; Hope & Glory (TV series 1), Dear Nobody
Set Design:
Venitta Gribble
Credits include:
Carrie’s War, I was a rat, Care, Jack of Hearts, Mortimer’s Law, Y Mapiwr
Keith Maxwell
Credits include:
Big Nothing, The Contractor, Lesbian Vampire Killers, Abraham's Point, Plots with a View
Amelia Shankland
Credits include:
Skins, The Baker, Carrie's War, The Giblet Boys, Hearts of Gold, Crash
Industry Observers:
Pauline Burt - CEO, Film Agency for Wales
Allison Dowzell – Development Manager (Film), Creative Business Wales
Iona Williams – Executive Director Cyfle