2024 | 15 mins | Colour
A non-exploitative and honest insight into a town considered to be the most deprived area in Wales. Two creatives explore how the people and landscapes of Merthyr Tydfil have impacted their lives and art.
Director Statement:
Y WERIN / HIRAETH is a meditation on what it is to be from somewhere. What it is to belong.
We wanted to explore this through the prism of two untranslatable Welsh words and our home in the valleys of South Wales, Merthyr Tydfil.
Merthyr is unapologetically working class and calmly nostalgic, despite being perpetually exploited by reality TV producers as fodder for poverty porn. It has inherited universal truths because of its industrial past and evolved an insatiable creative hunger because of its adverse present.
Y WERIN / HIRAETH is about finding beauty in the ordinary, fashioning an artistic voice for a town that has never been given that, or any, opportunity. It is about our relationships and fixation on hope through hardship, like WINGS OF DESIRE, COLD WAR or Italian neo-realism. It is a love letter to our, and everyone’s, home.
Directed and Produced by Adam Evans & Ella Spottiswood
Director of Photography: Keefa Chan
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Music: Penguin Cafe
Sound: Adam Chestnutt
Colourist: James Bamford
Post Production: Cinematic
EE BAFTA British Academy Film Awards Nominee 2022: British Short Film
2021 | 29mins 27secs | Colour
A loud, emotional portrait of a reluctant goodbye to The London Palace Bingo Club - told through the stories of the regulars that loved and depended on it, and the owner who couldn't save it.
Director/Producer: Jo Prichard
Executive Producer: Sophie Donovan
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Composer: Dimitrios Ntontis
Dialogue Editor: Ruth Knight
Sound Editor: Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
Re-Recording Mixer: Harry J.N. Parsons
Miss Curvy
2020 | 24mins 27secs | Colour
WINNER
Grierson British Documentary Awards 2020: Best Student Documentary
Edmonton International Film Festival: Best Doc. Short (International)
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Festival: Best Doc. Short
Austin Film Festival 2020: Jury Award Honourable Mention
NOMINATED/SELECTED
EE BAFTA British Academy Film Awards 2021 Shortlist: British Short Film
OSCAR Student Academy Awards 2020: Best Documentary (International)
GSA BAFTA Student Film Awards 2020 Shortlist: Best Documentary
One World Media Awards 2020: Best Student Film
Nashville Film Festival 2020: Official Selection
OKO - International Film Festival: Official Selection
Miss Curvy is a film about a Ugandan mother trying to navigate her past traumas through participating in Africa's first beauty pageant for plus-size women.
When Uganda announces its first-ever beauty pageant for plus-size women, schoolteacher and single mother Namukasa Mariam seizes the opportunity. Seeking to empower herself and overcome past trauma, she soon finds herself surrounded by national controversy, fierce rivalry and extravagant characters each with their own agendas. Exploring timeless yet contemporary issues within a uniquely African context, Miss Curvy takes viewers on Mariam's unforgettable journey through the extraordinary world of East African plus-size beauty pageantry.
Director/Producer: Ghada Eldemellawy
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Cinematographer: Fabio Mota
Sound Recordist: Sam Jenkins
Sound Designer: João Fonte
Composer: Sarah Boughton
Online Editor/Colour Grader: Nigel Tadyanehondo
Production Manager: Brendan Kavanagh
Production Co-ordinator: Lorenzo Monti
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On the way to school, Mae gets bullied by Heather and her gang. At home, Mae sews a felt horse mask - a magic totem for protection. As her school show-and-tell approaches, Mae decides to stand up for herself - not by fighting or getting revenge, but by sharing the most precious part of her inner sanctum to the world at large.
TRiGGA is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Meloni Poole and was produced by Deborah Aston. The film was edited by Gareth Pugh, who also acted as Digital Imaging Technician on set.
TRiGGA was funded in equal parts by the BFI & Creative England and a successful crowdfunding campaign led by a promotional video that was also directed and edited by GPFilm.
Stratum Deep
2020 | 17mins 10secs | Colour
WINNER:
EnergaCAMERIMAGE: Silver Tadpole 2020 - Student Etudes Competition
Starring:
Thomas Turgoose
Barry Aird
Director: Lian Meng Rose
Producer: James Bowsher
Writer: Nathan Hardisty
Cinematographer: Nathalie Pitters
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Sound Designer: Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
Composer: Ethan Jeffrey
Robert, a young coal miner, is severely injured yet forced to rescue his father in the accidental collapse of their coal mine.
Historical Fiction set in the aftermath of the 1980s Miners’ Strike.
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Where Monsters Dwell
2020 | 6 mins | Colour
Directed by Richard Smithson
Edited by Gareth Pugh
In a monstrous world, Izzy and Morris are in a great relationship and enjoy the company of each other, until they both have to decide on their pizza order, plain or pineapple?
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The Wanderer
2020 | 12 mins | Monochrome
London is a city of sleepwalkers, drifters. In this modern silent film, we see that running against the tide is the Wanderer. A modern city spirit who's constantly on the run in hope of real human connection.
Starring:
Abiola Ogunbiyi
Yinka Awoni
Lenn Blasse
Producer: Leah Bethany Jones
Director: Lian Meng Rose
DOP: Twan Peeters
Production Management: Tian Boyce & Lára Theódóra Kristjánsdóttir
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Composer: Natalia Tsupryk
Sound Designer: Ruth Knight
Dubbing Mixer: Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
Colourist: Michael Pearce
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Danny’s Secret
2019 | 20 mins | Colour
WINNER:
UK Film Festival 2020: Best British Short
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Bolton International Film Festival | 2020
Starring:
Jonathan Blake
Isabelle Allen
Nicola Harrison
Katherine Rodden
Francene Turner
Producer: Andrew St Maur
Director: Raphaël Biss
DOP: Rachel Liew
Production Designer: Richard Henley
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Sound Designer: Ruth Knight
Composer: Sarah Boughton
On the verge of loosing his virginity with his girlfriend, Danny suddenly finds himself faced with a terrible doubt.
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In the shadows of the newly formed Galactic Empire, elite Clone Commando unit Squad 42 is tested to its absolute limits as they come to terms with the destruction of the Jedi Order and their own role within it...
CAST AND CREW
Writer | Director | Animator | Editor:
Gareth Pugh - youtube.com/user/spugesdu
Sound Design: Harry Parsons - www.harryjnparsons.com
Original Music: Ethan Jeffrey - ethanjeffreymusic.com
Foley: Ross Wilkes-Houghton
Additional Sound Design: Ruth Knight
3D Modelling by
Clone Army Customs - www.clonearmycustoms.com
BrickTaleStudios - youtube.com/user/LSWStoriesAnimations
Gareth Pugh - youtube.com/user/spugesdu
Starring
Keshen8 as ROOK - youtube.com/user/Keshen8
Brickunit as TAC/ZEPH - youtube.com/user/Brickunit
Ruth Knight as THE JEDI
Neil Rogers as ANGRY PROTESTER
Gareth Pugh as THE COMMANDER - youtube.com/user/spugesdu