YoungWelsh filmmakers in spotlight
Mo’s World on BBC 2 Wales
A FORMER homeless man who went on to make an award-winning documentary about the issue will have his latest hard-hitting short film screened as part of a new TV series.
Cardiff-based filmmaker Martin Read found himself homeless on London’s streets – and then made an hour-long BBC documentary, Where Am I Sleeping Tonight, which won an industry award.
Now Martin, who studied at the University of South Wales, has made another gritty documentary for the It’s My Shout series of short films called Voices From Wales, which is being aired throughout this week on BBC2 Wales.
Mo’s World enters the murky world of people addicted to drugs and alcohol who feel they have no-one to turn to until they meet Mo. It’s My Shout, said: “This is an exciting
Other documentaries in the series new adventure for It’s My Shout, we look include a film about a man with learning forward to finding new stories and new disabilities who spent nearly 50 years in story-tellers who will be able to hone institutions, the story of a woman their filmmaking talents through this fighting new regulations to keep her fantastic new documentary strand.” specially adapated car, and a film about Christina Macaulay, commissioning a Welsh headteacher’s dream to become editor for BBC Wales, said: “We are so a professional wrestler. pleased that the new documentary
The short documentaries were scheme has resulted in four films that commissioned by BBC Wales and made give emerging filmmakers a chance to as part of the It’s My Shout scheme, make their mark on screen. They are all which trains filmmakers of the future in very different but tell compelling stories disciplines such as acting and directing about people we might never have to writing and producing. Each trainee known about had it not been for this Director had an experienced mentor series of short films.” who would guide them through the Mo’s World is on BBC2 Wales process. tonight at 11.15pm. You can see all the Roger Burnell, Managing Director of documentaries on BBC iPlayer
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