About

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, Sergey Dvortsevoy, and Gaston Kaboré; screenwriters Andrew Davies and Tim Firth; producers Stephen Garrett and Sally Hibbin; highly acclaimed visual artists Lichtfaktor and Semiconductor; international FX companies The Mill and Double Negative; Oscar winning editor Jim Clark; and animators Johnny Kelly, Phil Mulloy, & Peter Dodd, amongst many others.

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. Ffresh also works together with 14 partner festivals around the world who annually select work to feature as part of the festival programme.

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. Ffresh 2012 will take place at the Newport Film School from February 8th – 10th.

Ffresh is organised by The Festivals Company Limited on behalf of Ffresh Ltd, which is indebted to the support of the Ffresh advisory, which consists of representatives from all the Ffresh Member Colleges and Universities.

The Festivals Company is a bilingual company located in Cardiff with a team that brings together extensive experience in delivering events management, PR, moving image production, consultancy and marketing. Their clients have included: British Council Wales, Ffresh Ltd, Plaid Cymru, Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Celtic Media Festival, BBC Cymru Wales, Welsh Assembly Government, S4C, ITV Wales, TVYP and the National Library of Wales. They’re also proud to have created: The Iris Prize and Welsh Curry House of the Year competition.

For more information about Ffresh, or to become a volunteer at the festival, please contact Festival Director James Nee.