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BAFTA CYMRU
BAFTA SCOTLAND
AFTA shows it Care-s’ - Bthat was the headline
Monday morning follow- ing the stunning 10th Annual BAFTA Cymru
Awards Ceremony, held on June 24
at the city’s St David’s Hall, in daz- zling sunshine. An eclectic mix of sponsors, celebrities, nominees and guests kept themselves cool with chilled champagne and wine before being seated a la Oscar style in the main auditorium, which proved to be a resounding success.
Crown. HTV’s funnyman Peter Baikie repeated last year’s success, winning for the second year running Best Light Entertainment for Hugh Pugh Presents...The Fishguard Film Festival.
Indies also shone through with Teledu Opus picking up five Awards. Y Celtiaid, presented by Guto Harri, picked up the highly acclaimed Gwyn Alf Award for Best Documentary/Drama Doc.
Maria Pride clinched Best Actress and Steven Mackintosh Best Actor both for their dramatic roles in Care.
Siân Phillips was visibly moved as she accepted the British Academy Special Award to a stand- ing ovation with heartfelt applause from a captivated audience.
A huge thanks to everyone involved in making the evening spectacular, especially the spon- sors, the broadcasters, the com- mittee and to BAFTA babe Lisa Nesbitt for all her hard work over the last couple of months.
The buffet of local produce was superb and for those who still had the energy an aftershow party saw us through till the wee hours.
Voting papers for election to the Management Committee have been counted and we must say a fond farewell to the Chairman of the past three years, Emyr Daniel. We wish him all the very best and thank him for all his hard work, enthusiasm and anecdotes! ■ Sarah Howells
www.bafta-cymru.org.uk
he winner of this year’s TBAFTA and subsequently
the Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film, Father And Daughter, was
part of a recent special Animation Masterclass. Held in The Lighthouse, Glasgow’s latest archi- tectural showcase and centre for design and conferencing. The event was a tremendous success.
It was the first time that BAFTA Scotland, along with part- ners Cineworks at Glasgow Media Access (GMAC Ltd.), had hosted an event devoted solely to anima- tion. It is likely to become the first of many, as we were delighted by the large group of mainly young and very enthusiastic animators who attended.
The speaker was Claire Jennings, who has several success- ful animated films to her credit. Father And Daughter, animated by the Netherlands born director Michael Dudok de Wit, has also won a number of other major awards. Claire also produced The Jolly Roger, by Mark Baker and Neville Astley, which was nominat- ed for an Oscar in 1999.
The prize winning TV series Stressed Eric and The Big Knights were also screened for our delight and each film was highlighted by Claire’s refreshingly honest and down-to-earth examples of how she had managed her considerable achievements.
The event was organ- ised by Susie Wilson of Pictures On The Wall and we were left in no doubt by our audience’s reaction that future animation events, held here in Scotland, would certainly be welcomed.
Our BAFTA audience in Edinburgh recently had the rare opportunity to see a preview of the new film Intimacy by the brilliantly
talented French director, Patrice Chereau. Patrice attended the screening and introduced the film.
His eloquent description of his work with stars Kerry Fox, Mark Rylance, Timothy Spall and Marianne Faithfull provided the audience with a fascinating glimpse into the exclusive world he created in order to work with such extraordinary intimacy.
Listening to him describe how he came to write the screen- play, which is based around stories by Hanif Kureishi, we were simply, yet skilfully, given the opportunity to hear at first hand some of the very personal and bittersweet motives which led Patrice to the realisation of his latest film. It is not often we have the chance to meet such a talented and dedicat- ed artist. Intimacy has already won the top award at the Berlin Film Festival and so it will surely be one to watch out for on release.
This year’s BAFTA Scotland event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival will involve two of America’s most influential documentary makers, DA Pennebaker and his partner and wife, Chris Hegedus. Best known for their work in the area of music, Pennebaker is credited as the creator of the first ‘concert’ film Monterey Pop, in 1969.
Thereafter, major works with Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and Jerry Lee Lewis, to name but a few, and his pioneering camera work for concerts created films like the Oscar nominated, The War Room (1993), a fascinat- ing fly-on-the-wall view of Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
If you work in Scotland’s screen industries, film, television or new media and you’d like to know more about us please call 0141 302 1770 or email:
info@baftascotland.co.uk
Care, the BBC’s hard hit-
ting drama scooped five gongs includ- ing Best Drama for Ruth Caleb and Louise Panton. There were whoops of glee from the stalls as S4C’s Welsh language ver-
sion of Solomon a Gaenor picked up amongst the four gleaming Awards, Best Film for a delighted Sheryl
Photos opposite page from top left (l-r): Q&A on The Mummy Returns; Baz Luhrmann; Michael Barker, Co-Chairman of Sony Picture Classics; Maureen Sinclair with Jo McAndrews and Roy Boulter; Maureen and friends at the East Is East screening in Rochdale; Maureen with Simon Weston OBE and Lisa McGorrin; winner of Best Animated Film (Oscar and Bafta), Father & Daughter.
The BAFTA Cymru Awards: Line up of winners(l-r): 1. Caryl Ebenezer and the team at Opus TV for Y Celtiaid; 2. Siân Phillips, winner of the BAFTA Special Award with Matthew Rhys and Stifyn Parri; 3. Best Actress, Maria Pride, for Care; 4. Pete Baikie and John Sparks for Hugh Pugh Presents... The Fishguard Film Festival - Best Light Entertainment; 5. Sheryl Crown for Best Film, Solomon a Gaenor. (BAFTA Cymru Awards photos by Huw John)
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