Tuesday 20th January

Muni Arts Centre

9.30amMarch of the Penguins (2005)

Film capacity = 300

  • Director: Luc Jacquet
  • Age: All ages
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 85 mins
  • Documentary

The miraculous MARCH OF THE PENGUINS is a love story. The documentary explores the mating rituals of the emperor penguin, one of the most resilient animals on earth. This remarkable story is narrated by Morgan Freeman, whose dignified voice gives the penguins the grave admiration they deserve.

Short - Lights Out! (2007)

Director: First Light Movies

Age: All ages

Type; Claymation

Duration: 5 mins

Made by: SandayCommunitySchool, Orkney

11.30amSurf Tailz (2008)

Followed by Q+A session with Helen from On the Push

Film capacity = 300

  • Director: Anne Gallagher
  • Language: English
  • Age: All ages
  • Duration: 27 mins

Filmed over 5 days along the South Wales coastline, Surf Tailz captures the stories, songs and surfing experiences of 32 young people from accross the SouthWalesValleys. If you are remotely familiar with surfing movies, you will know that opera is rarely the director's choice of soundtrack. Filmed on location at Porthcawl and Southerndown, South West Wales, august 2008.

On the Push- A Surfer’s Guide to Climate Change (2008)

  • Director: Anne Gallagher
  • Age:All ages
  • Language: English

Anne Gallagher is a dedicated young surfer, geography graduate and award-winning filmmaker. On the Push is her story about how an ordinary surfer girl from Wales becomes an eco-activist. We follow Anne’s journey from Porthcawl to Cornwall, Spain and Switzerland as she learns about the serious threat of climate change- and how a surfer can help protect the marine environment. With stunning surf photography, funky music and beautiful locations, On the Push offers an approach to global warming which is enjoyable and accessible, but also inspiring. Anne’s journey of discovery reflects our own- what will we do to take action?

7.30pmBeverly HillsChihuahua (2008)

Film capacity = 250

  • Director: Raja Gosnell
  • Language: English
  • PG
  • Duration: 85 mins

A pampered Chihuahua accustomed to the living the good life in glamorous Beverly Hills must rein in her heiress instincts and rely on the kindness of strangers in order to find her way back home after becoming hopelessly lost in Mexico.

Workshops + Masterclasses

9.30amImprovisation workshop for secondary schools (@YMCA)

Age – 11-16

Capacity = 20

Drama based games and established improvisation techniques to build self confidence, explore your imagination and have fun in the process.

9.30amSpecial-effects Makeup (@YMCA)

Age - Primary 8-11

Capacity = EvanJamesSchool

Learn how to make yourself look really gruesome using make up! See how make up artists in film and TV change people’s appearance by using latex, colors and shading.

11.30amImprovisation workshop for primary schools(@YMCA)

Age – 8-11

Capacity = 20

Drama based games and established improvisation techniques to build self confidence, explore your imagination and have fun in the process.

3.30pmWhat’s up doc? Masterclass on documentary making(@ Muni)

Age – Secondary school

Capacity = 300

Interesting workshop with a group of industry professionals! An interactive question and answer session with shorts clips of some documentaries and a chance to pick up hints tips from the experts.

8.30pmOpening night party @ Clwb y Bont

It’s the party of the year to get you in the mood for the festival! You can meet loads of other young people who are involved in the festival and take advantage of all the lovely treats we’ve got in store for you!

You won’t want to miss our After Show Party at Clwb y Bont, just £1! A limited number of tickets are available for the final event!

Wednesday 21st January

Blackwood Miners Institute

9.30amImpysIsland (2006)

Film Capacity = 230

  • Director: Reinhard Klooss and Holger Tappe
  • Age: All ages
  • Language:English
  • Subtitles:No
  • Duration: 86 mins

Titiwoo is a small volcanic island in the middle of the ocean. Life is happy and idyllic for everyone on the island. Then from an iceberg a frozen prehistoric egg is washed ashore and hatches a strange green creature: Impy, a dinosaur from the ice-age. From this moment on the islanders' peaceful life is over.....

Titiwoo is a small volcanic island in the middle of the ocean. Zoologist and maverick scientist Professor Horatio Tibberton lives and works on Titiwoo. The professors adopted son and an illustrious bag of island creatures attend Tibberton's idiosyncratic language school: Ping the penguin, Monty the monitor lizard, Shoe the shebill and Solomon the sea elephant. Life is happy and idyllic for everyone on the island.

Then from an iceberg a frozen prehistoric egg is washed ashore on Titiwoo. From the egg emerges a strange green creature: Impy, a dinosaur from the ice-age. From this moment on the islanders' peaceful life is over.....

Short - In The Shadows (2007)

  • Director: Dimitris Apostolou
  • Age: All ages
  • Language:Greek
  • Subtitles: Yes
  • Duration: 15 mins mins

In the summer of 1950, a boy's life will change forever, as the arrival of a shadow theatre in the village will awake new emotions.

11.30amMax Minsky and Me (2007)

Film Capacity = 230

  • Director: Anna Justice
  • Age: Suitable for ages 12 and over
  • Language: German
  • Subtitles: Yes
  • Duration: 94 mins

A young girl who, while awkward and friendless, has a secret crush on the prince of Luxembourg. She hopes to impress him by trying out for the high school basketball team.

Nelly Sue Edelmeister, aged 13, is interested in books and astronomy and she dreams of one day being an astronomer. The movie has a few great special effects shots in which Nelly imagines she's walking among the stars, forming new constellations that uncannily resemble her unattainable dreamboat, Prince Edoard. Nelly feels simply must get on the school basketball team in order to compete in the inter-schools championship, judged by her hero the Prince – but how?

Workshops + Masterclasses

9.30amImprovisation workshop for secondary schools

Capacity = 30

Age – 11-16

Drama based games and established improvisation techniques to build self confidence, explore your imagination and have fun in the process.

9.30amSpecial-effects Makeup

Capacity = 30

Age – mixed

Learn how to make yourself look really gruesome using make up! See how make up artists in film and TV change people’s appearance by using latex, colors and shading.

11.30amImprovisation workshop for primary schools

Capacity = 30

Age – 8-11

Drama based games and established improvisation techniques to build self confidence, explore your imagination and have fun in the process.

1.30pmTwintown Masterclass

Capacity = 30

Masterclass with the writer of TwinTown.

Age; 18+?

Zoom To You

To Kill a Mocking Bird – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

The SecretGarden – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

Crusade; March through time

Max Minsky and Me (German)

Please Vote for Me (Chinese)

Wednesday 21st January

MerthyrCollege

9.30amSpecial People (2007)

Film capacity = 220

  • Director: Justin Edgar
  • Age: 13+
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 80 mins

Jasper is a film maker on the verge of a nervous breakdown whose last hopes of making a great cinematic masterpiece lie with a group of disabled teenagers as a run down community centre. Jasper aims to make a truthful film from the young people's own experiences. In the end however, the kids have a different idea about the film they want to make and the reality of their own lives. This hilarious comedy drama will make you laugh, cry and cringe.

11.30amUnni: Life is All About Friends (2007)

Film capacity = 220

  • Director: Murali Nair
  • Age: 10+
  • Language: Indian (Kerela)
  • Subtitles: Yes
  • Duration: 90 mins

Unni: Life is All About Friends is set in the 1970s in the rural town of Kerala, India. The film follows the mischievous antics of four school friends -Unni, Gopi, Ramu and Raju. Unni is from an upper-caste family, but his allegiance is with his ramshackle, lower-caste friends and this leads to all sorts of complications.

Short – My happy End

  • Director: Milen Vitanov
  • Duration: 5 mins

All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.

Workshops + Masterclasses

9.30amAnimation workshop with Moonoo

Capacity = 20

3 hours

Age – mixed (it doesn’t matter)

Join industry professionals for a behind the scenes glimpse into the world of 2D and Cut-Out animation.

1.30pmGreen-screen reporting with Merthyr Media

Capacity = 20

Age – secondary school

Fancy yourself as the new Derek Brockway or Sian Lloyd? Take this opportunity to explore the world of green screen special effects for recording and reporting.

1.30pmGood Arrows

Age – 15+

Documentary on the making of Good Arrows film, from Merthyr Media

Zoom To You

To Kill a Mocking Bird – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

The SecretGarden – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

Crusade; March through time

Max Minsky and Me (German)

Please Vote for Me (Chinese)

Wednesday 21st January

TreharrisCommunity College

Workshops + Masterclasses

Capacity = 20

9.30amPhotoshop That! Workshop with Octopus

Capacity = 20

Workshop with Octopus Creative Design Ltd. Working to create movie posters on Photoshop

Thursday 22nd January

Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale

Workshops + Masterclasses

9.30amSpecial effects make-up workshop

Capacity = 20

11.30amCrusade; A march through time (2006)

Capacity = 150

  • Director: Ben Sombogaart
  • Language:English
  • Duration: 102 mins

Young soccer player Dolf fails to score in the European junior championships, causing his team to be eliminated. Feeling he can’t live with his mistake, Dolf breaks into his mother’s advanced physics laboratory which holds an experimental time machine. Intending to go back in time 12 hours to replay the football match, Dolf accidentally sends himself to the 13th century accidently ending up in the year 1212.

4pmLooked After premier

Capacity = 150

Launch of Looked After.

Invitation only.

Zoom To You

To Kill a Mocking Bird – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

The SecretGarden – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

Crusade; March through time

Max Minsky and Me (German)

Please Vote for Me (Chinese)

Thursday 22nd January

Congress Theatre, Cwmbran

Film Capacity = 310

9.30amPlease Vote For Me (2007)

Film Capacity = 310

  • Director: Weijun Chen
  • Language: Mandarin
  • Subtitles: Yes
  • Duration: 55 mins

Please Vote For Me centres on a group of third-grade students in present-day China who undergo a simple social experiment -- a democratic election in their classroom to determine who will become the classroom monitor.They cook up plots to topple competing candidates, enlist fellow students as political consultants, modify their behaviour around potential rivals and supporters in order to make things go their way, and exploit vulnerabilities in their opponents that you can scarcely believe a third-grader would consider.

11.30amThe Other Boy (Der Andere Junge) (2007)

Film Capacity = 310

  • Director: Volker Einrauch
  • Language:German
  • Age: 14+
  • Subtitles: Yes
  • Duration: 91 mins

A suburb of Hamburg is where the Morells and Wagners live, each a father-mother-son family. Both are perfectly normal families, even at second sight. The fathers have been friends for years and work together for the same company as salesmen for Swedish pre-fabricated houses.

13.30pmPixar Shorts (2008)

Film Capacity = 310

  • Director: Pixar

For more than fifteen years, Pixar's creative and technical teams have worked closely to produce short films and television commercials using three-dimensional computer animation while continually developing their creative expertise and proprietary technology.

In 1986, Pixar's first short film, Luxo Jr., received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Short Film. In 1988, Pixar's short film Tin Toy received an Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film, and in 1997, Geri's Game received the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film. Geri's Game was the first film to incorporate the studio's technology for creating more realistic-looking skin and cloth. In 2002, Pixar's For the Birds received the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film; in 2003 Mike's New Car was nominated for the same distinction; and, most recently in 2006, One Man Band became the latest Pixar Short to be nominated for the award.

Workshops + Masterclasses

9.30amBBFC Workshop

Capacity = 20

Masterclass with British Board of Film Classification. The independent body set up the independent non-governmental body who have been classifying films since 1912.

Why is Spiderman classified as 12? What had to be cut out of Star Wars episode II? Why are some films that were 12 in the cinema 15 on video? This workshop will answer your questions on film classification as well as giving you more of an insight as what goes on behind the scenes at the BBFC. You will find out more about how films are rated as well as going through a variety of case studies and film clips, followed by a Q+A Session.

11.30amSpecial Effects make-up workshop

Capacity = 30

Learn how to make yourself look really gruesome using make up! See how make up artists in film and TV change people’s appearance by using latex, colors and shading.

Zoom To You

To Kill a Mocking Bird – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

The SecretGarden – BFI top 50 films to see before you are 14

Crusade; March through time

Max Minsky and Me (German)

Please Vote for Me (Chinese)

Friday 22nd January

Muni Arts Centre

10.00amZYFA Shortlist

Film Capacity = 300

Invite any schools and people who are shortlisted to watch all the shortlisted films for the awards.

Workshops + Masterclasses

12pmCareers surgery from Cyfle + Skillset

Capacity = open (drop in session)

Want to have a career in the media? But not sure what to do next? Come along for advice given by industry professionals on what direction to take and training that is available. Think Wales hasn’t got much to offer? You’ll be surprised! Come and see the next generation of Welsh film makers and see how it’s done, and then speak to Cyfle about the next steps to take.

1pmFfresh masterclass

Capacity = 300

Masterclass on producing and directing from Ffresh

Ceri did a Producer's Masterclass for SSAW. This masterclass will be interesting and suitable as the role of the Producer covers many areas and perhaps might be something which the participants won't know much about. Direction will also be covered in this class as Ceri directed a couple of features and loads of TV work including Llety Parc

3.30pmClay (2008)

Followed by Q+A session with Ben-Rhys Davies

Capacity = 300

  • Director: Andrew Gunn
  • Age: Anyone under 12 needs to be accompanied by an Adult
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 91 mins

Based on the novel by award-winning author David Almond. Set in the mid-60s, this dark and mesmerising fable tells how 14-year-old David's life is changed forever by a mysterious outsider, Stephen. Stephen is a reject from priest-school, where not even the fathers can cope with his strange influence. Beguiled by Stephen's gift to mould clay figures and perhaps even bring them to life, Davie falls headlong under his spell.

Short - Matrimonoids (2006)

  • Director: First Light Movies
  • Age: All ages
  • Duration: 5 mins

This fresh animation by a group of 15-17 year olds in reminiscent of an avant-garde music video working succinctly with it's innovative soundtrack. With a strong style the film's effective black and white drawings transport us to a surreal world of martian invasion where space ships beam up cows and carsgrow legs set against a background of rain and fire.

7pmZYFA- Awards Ceremony

Film Capacity = 300

8.30pmWrap Party @ Clwb y Bont

Capacity = 100