Now in its 10th year, Ffresh – the Student Moving Image Festival of Wales – features the best student work from Wales, the UK, and abroad, along with masterclasses, panel sessions and workshops with some of the industry’s most renowned and respected figures. Previous guests have included directors Stephen Frears (The Queen) and Gaston Kaboré (Zan Boko), screenwriters Andrew Davies (Bleak House) and Tim Firth (Calender Girls) amongst many others.
The purpose of the festival is to celebrate the best work being created by the up-and-coming moving image talent from around the world, and to provide a vital link between higher education and the media sector. The festival annually takes place in February and has a number of international partner festivals who annually select work to feature as part of the festival programme.
The festival programme also includes all the shortlisted work for the prestigious Ffresh Awards, which consists of 14 categories of excellence, which students from around Wales and the UK can submit their work into. The winners are announced during the Ffresh Awards Show on the final night of the festival.The festival is also annually attended by organisations such as BBC Wales, S4C, Skillset, Cyfle, British Council, Bafta and the Royal Television Society as well as representatives from the independent sector.
Along with Ffresh there is also Ffresh + which is aimed at further education students providing them with unique access to high profile industry figures, information on moving image courses throughout Wales, and the opportunity to showcase and celebrate their work.
For more information visit the official website.
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