Film festival time in Carmarthen


It’s Festival Time for film-makers studying at Trinity University College, Carmarthen.
Budding directors, writers, designers and film producers will be staging Myrddin Shorts, a mini film festival in Carmarthen, on the Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend.
“Screenings will be in three separate venues in Carmarthen town centre,” said one of the film-makers Natalie Williams.

“We have split ourselves into three groups of students and each one will be responsible for one venue. The idea is to mimic the London Film Festival.
“It promises to be an entertaining day and I am sure people will appreciate the venues we have chosen and the variety of short films on show.”
The films will be bold and innovative, tackling a whole range of topics.
For example, Release is a psychological thriller, while From Echoes Past charts the story of a young, lost and confused boy who is convinced he was born in the wrong time.
In Upgrade, a young man, unhappy with his monotonous life, apparently discovers that he is a robot. But with a history of mental illness what are his friends to believe?
Joshua's Secrets is a comedy drama, while The Taming of Charlie Langford is a darker affair about a young woman who takes revenge on her egotistical ex-boyfriend by kidnapping him and forcing him down the aisle to marry her.
The film-makers include - Benjamin Scarsbrook, Vicki Smith, Natalie Williams, Mark Howells, Lisa Heavens, Owen Alan Richards, Ash Roberts, David Evans, Lauren Mortimer, Jonathan Evans, Helen Marie Jones and Tim Couch.
The Myrddin Shorts Film Festival will be staged at three venues on Sunday, May 2, starting at Restaurant 7teen in Queen Street, then moving to the Lyric Theatre in King Street, before finishing in Diablo’s just off Nott Square.
Timetable, May 2nd 2010
1:30pm
http://Watched (directed by Lisa Heavens) on laptops in the lobby area
2:00pm - 4pm (Restaurant 17)
From Echoes Past (directed by Lauren Mortimer); Joshua's Secrets (directed by Helen Jones); Wayne (directed by Tim Couch); Fifteen (directed by Victoria Smith); Brothers (directed by Owen Richards); Delivery (directed by Ash Roberts)
5:00pm-7pm (Lyric)
Upgrade (directed by Natalie Williams); Release (directed by Benjamin Scarsbrook); Bad Blood (directed by Mark Howells); Solace (Music video for Ruby Surge)
(Five minute interval)
Inside the Chalk Circle (directed by Benjamin Scarsbrook); The Rise and Fall of the State (directed by Natalie Williams); Tomorrow's Light (music video for Ruby Surge)
7:30pm-8pm (Diablo's)
The Taming of Charlie Langford (directed by Jonathan Evans); Down in a Hole (directed by David Evans)
If you want more pictures of film-makers and posters, then please see –
http://picasaweb.google.com/robertapvincent/MyrddinShorts#
and download from there.

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