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Much of the cinema of Wales in the later 1910s and 1920s has been lost. In 1920 nine films were shot in Wales, all now lost. [ 3 ] One of the most notable and celebrated of the films from this period is A Welsh Singer (1915), adapted from a work by Welsh writer Allen Raine , which starred Florence Turner . [ 3 ]
1978: Grand Slam is a BBC Wales film about Welsh rugby fans travelling to Paris for the Grand Slam of Wales vs. France. 1979: Black As Hell, Thick As Grass is a documentary by Kenneth Griffith. 1979: The Corn Is Green was written by Ivan Davis , based on a play by Emlyn Williams .
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The Wales One World Film Festival was founded in 2001 by David Gillam, and in that year screened at three venues: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, the Taliesin in Swansea, and Chapter in Cardiff. His vision was to present world cinema in a way that "show[s] the stories people ‘over there’ are telling each other, what is important to them". [1]
The archive is funded by the National Library of Wales and the Welsh Government and located at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. [1] [2] [3] The archive holds a collection of 5.5 million feet of film that represents Welsh culture and life in Wales from the late 19th century through to the 21st century. [4]
BAFTA Cymru (or BAFTA in Wales) is the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and was founded in 1987. [ 1 ] The British Academy Cymru Awards were established in 1991, [ 2 ] with the first annual awards ceremony held on 30 November 1991.
The cinema was listed Grade II on 4 August 1999 because it was considered a very rare example in Wales of 1930s cinema architecture, [2] with an interior which was largely intact. [2] It was purchased by the local authority in 2009, but by 2019 the building was derelict, and a campaign was launched to save it and turn it over for community use.