This is a film produced for Nat Geo by Antidote Productions in association with Barefoot Rascals. It tells the story of the global phenomenon that is YouTube.
This is a film produced for Nat Geo by Antidote Productions in association with Barefoot Rascals. It tells the story of the global phenomenon that is YouTube.
Danger Dogs follows the recruiting and training of dogs ‐ and the women and men that become their handlers on the frontline in the battle against drugs and explosives.
Pobol y Cwn follows West End star Gillian Elisa as she sets out to discover why Wales is such a nation of dog lovers. She discovers that no two dog lovers are the same, but the things take a difficult turn for Gillian.
Kiddo is a coming of age drama set in the Welsh Valleys.
Featuring Craig Roberts (Submarine) in his first lead film role and new talent Darren Evans (Submarine) in his debut role, it won an award at the 2006 Celtic Film Festival.
Social action documentary film maker Gordon Main was called in to collaborate with community stakeholders in Tredegar, in the valleys.
The result is this, his second drama. Working with a blend of actors and non- actors, formal script and improvisation, he created a compelling story based largely on real experiences.
Gordon uses the forum theatre techniques of Augusto Boal, with whom he trained for a short time, to produce his scripts.
Working with identified stakeholders over several months builds a trust and a real understanding of the situation, and place being portrayed.
Kiddo is still shown widely across Wales
This critically acclaimed film takes a non-judgmental look at the Miss Merthyr Tydfil beauty competition in its 50th year.
No matter how much you may disapprove of beauty competitions, it's impossible not to be won over by the integrity, enthusiasm and intelligence of the young women involved in today's contest.
Merthyr beauty queens of yesteryear give an insight into the town's successful industrial past and the transitory nature of youth , while the youngsters show there's far more to Merthyr today than the stereo typing endlessly recycled in the lazier parts of the media.
This is a film that gently disarms your preconceptions, be they about beauty, ageing or Merthyr itself. A welcome antidote to much of today's one dimensional in your face portrayal of valleys life.
With wall to wall nature programmes showing us intimate portrayals of far off jungles and exotic creatures, it's easy to forget that Britain has many secret wildlife gems.
Skokholm island, made famous in the 1930's by pioneering naturalist Ronald Lockley, has since been largely forgotten.
Indeed, recent years have seen it closed to the public and fall into disrepair.
Forgotten or not, the island remains a wildlife haven of international importance.
These films give an insight into the behaviour of its more exotic creatures, and the life of its most famous son, as members of the public fight to re-open the island and repair the buildings.
A young girl goes missing and suspicions quickly centre on her traumatised ex-
serviceman father, Dai Evans.
Police and social services swing into action, but nothing is quite as it seems.
In the Name of the Children is a three part series examining the relationship
between children, parents and the state.
Barefoot Rascals partner Peter Edwards made this series of 90 minute detective stories in the 1990's.
Produced & Directed – Peter Edwards
A Mind to Kill has sold to over 90 countries around the world.
Purchased – Discovery Communications, Viasat, Nine Network, Daro, Cineplax,
Media Mozaika, Lovefilm
When former BBC Changing Rooms star Anna Ryder Richardson decided to leave
the city she did it in style.
Together with her husband she bought a run-down zoo in west Wales.
Starting with almost no knowledge of animal husbandry, within three years she
has set up a model wildlife park and started working closely with the European
Endangered Species Breeding Programme.
Anna's Welsh Zoo – (Anna's Wild Life International version) – chronicles the
highs, the lows and the frequently amusing day to day goings on as this larger
than life character engages with the realities of running a wildlife park open to
the public.
Ajax Bay: Falklands Field Hospital - the last untold story of the Falklands War.
Bombed, attacked, dangerously low on medical supplies and frequently cut off
from the British fleet. Welcome to Ajax Bay - the main Falklands field hospital.
This unit and the men who ran it, including a captured Argentine doctor, dealt
with casualties from both sides from every major engagement during the
war. They had one clear aim. No casualty, no matter to which side they owed
allegiance, no matter how horrifically injured, would be allowed to die on their
watch…
They were so successful, that after the war the hospital's senior Surgeon
Commander, Dr Rick Jolly, was decorated by both sides. A unique feat for a
British serviceman.
When Jolly, decided to break with established battle plans and set up his field
hospital in an abandoned slaughterhouse in Ajax Bay, he knew he was taking a
big risk.
It could have been disastrous.
Instead, six weeks, 2 unexploded bombs and 1000 frequently horrific casualties
later, only two of his team's patients, one from each side, had died. An
unbelievable record.
If he had stayed on board ship, as planned, it might have been safer for the
medics, but to give the injured the best chance he knew that he needed to be as
close to the action as possible.
A ship's hospital might not have been able to get in close during bad weather or
air raid warnings, making ferrying the wounded to treatment more difficult. But
being in a fixed location, in the newly established bridgehead on shore, meant
the whole facility was well within the hot conflict zone.
This is a story of heroism and compassion by Argentine and British individuals
who saved lives away from the battlefield even as the two sides tore each other
apart just a few miles away.
This is the story of a group of young Welsh women athletes. Unlike other
Olympic hopefuls, they do not enjoy universal support.
Even some members of their own families don't like what they are doing.
These are Wales' women boxers.
"It's addictive, it's more of a purpose to live" – Chrystal, 19
"I used to get bullied quite a lot and I went in to boxing, the only place I could
go" – Danny, 17
"I think the adrenaline comes because you could get punched in the face, and the
likelihood is you are going to get punched in the face" – Becky, 24
On the morning of June 8th 1982 five Argentine Skyhawks swept over Fitzroy
on the south coast of East Falkland dropping their 500lb bombs with deadly
accuracy.
Three bombs hit the already damaged Sir Galahad and forty eight men died in
the fireball that followed, thirty two of them Welsh Guards. Many more were seriously burned or wounded.
The Guards had been a sitting target in a defenceless ship in broad daylight,
within range of the Argentine Air Force, in full sight of known Argentine
observation points from dawn till late afternoon that day.
How and why did so many Welsh Guards die in what many continue to believe
was an entirely avoidable incident during the Falklands War? Until now, the
answers have never really been given.
This forensic, step by step examination of the decisions, mistakes and accidents,
on both sides, leading up to June 8th leaves no stone unturned. This 30th
anniversary special aims to bring long overdue closure.