Board members
Peter Edwards
Chairman of the Film Agency for Wales
After running his own Independent Company for 11 years, Peter joined HTV Wales as Head of Drama in 1998. His credits include "A Way of Life" (Winner of the Bafta Carl Foreman Award), "Nuts & Bolts" (RTS Best Regional Award), "Pen Tennyn" (S4C), "Chosen" (ITV Wales & RTE), 14 episodes of "A Mind To Kill", director "East Enders" and "District Nurse" and Bafta & Celtic Film Festival Winner "A Bride of War" and "Penyberth".
Sybil Crouch
Vice Chairman
Head of Cultural Services at Swansea University & Director of Taliesin Arts Centre. Sybil is a founder member of the Wales Cinema Exhibition Group, a Director of the Wales One World Film Festival, represented the exhibition sector on the Wales Exhibition Task Force and chaired the Arts Council of Wales from 1999–2003.
Angharad Evans
Board Member
Angharad is a film and television lawyer. She advises independent film makers and film financiers on a wide range of legal aspects of film work including development, financing, production and distribution of films. Angharad also advises in relation to the legal aspects of television production, mobile games content and media and communications law in general. Born and bred on the outskirts of Cardiff, she is now living in London where she is able to practice as a dedicated media lawyer. Angharad read Law at the University of Exeter, attended The College of Law, Guildford and has recently been awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in UK, European and US Law of Copyright and Related Rights from King's College London. Angharad returned to Wales to complete her training contract at Morgan Cole Solicitors in 1999 where she advised a number of clients within the Welsh television industry and qualified into the Business Services Department of Morgan Cole in September 2001, specialising in Media and Commercial work. Angharad joined the Media & Communications Department of SJ Berwin LLP in March 2004.
Elan Closs Stephen
Board Member
Elan Closs Stephens CBE is currently Professor of Communications and Creative Industries in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she has been a member of staff since 1975. A member of the BFI Education Committee since December 2000 and appointed to the Board of the BFI in October 2001, Elan is now a Governor of the BFI. She also chairs the Advisory Committee of the British Council in Wales and is a Trustee of the main Board representing Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Elan recently oversaw the Welsh Assembly Government, Wales Arts Review, under Alun Pugh AM, which undertook to take a wide ranging review of the existing funding arrangements for the arts, including the role of the Arts Council of Wales, and looked to a possible future framework for funding and the development of access and inclusion to the arts, tackling social inequalities.
In 1998, Elan was the first person to be appointed in open competition as Chair of S4C. Appointed by Lord Smith of Finsbury (then Chris Smith) at DCMS, she was reappointed by Secretary of State, Tessa Jowell, for a further full term. Elan was also a member of the UK Film Council/ Skillset Task force on training for the film industry.
Nerys Lloyd
Board Member
Nerys Lloyd (ACE alumni 2003) has recently completed "Daddy's Girl" a psychological horror written and directed by David Evans, starring Richard Harrington, Jaime Winstone and Louise Delamere (financed by ACW and Carnaby Films.) It has been bought by "Contender" in the UK to be theatrically distributed in Autumn 2007.
In 2005 Boda Co-Produced Dead Long Enough a Romantic Comedy with Grand Pictures, written by James Hawes and directed by Tommy Collins starring Michael Sheen, Jason Hughes (financed Irish Film Board, Arts Council of Wales, Northern Irish Film and Television Board, Eclipse, Non Stop Sales, Media Luna, RTE, ITV Wales). It is playing at festivals at the moment before its release and won the audience award in the recent Welsh International Film Festival.Boda has been involved in the emerging talent scheme for Sgrin Wales and in the last two years has produced ten 35mm short films. Boda was established by Nerys Lloyd in 1993 as a Television and Film Company and since 2001 has focussed solely on Film. Previous film credits include 'Beautiful Mistake' (dir. Marc Evans) and 'Crosscurrent' (dir. Pip Broughton.)
Ynyr Williams
Board Member
Ynyr started his career as an actor. He worked for all the major broadcasters and set up SALEM FILMS (joint-venture with Tinopolis) in 2000. Ynyr produced and directed across the genres from children's to religion, from light entertainment to drama and feature. Feature film 'CAITLIN' with Pierce Brosnan, Miranda Richardson, Rosamund Pike, Michael Sheen is being financed at present.2003 – Produced 'DAL:YMA/NAWR' – 35mm feature documentary film on Welsh Poetry with 'My Little Eye' director – Marc Evans. Appearances by Rhys Ifans, Sian Phillips, John Cale, Cerys Mathews, Mathew Rhys, Ioan Gruffydd, Daniel Evans.2002/3/4 – Produced 'OLYMPIC STORIES' – Series of 10minute fiction shorts based on the lives of Olympic athletes for The European Broadcasting Union. Ynyr is Executive Producer for EBU and countries involved include Greece, Slovenia, Ireland, Croatia, Romania, Norway, Poland, Wales, Czech Republic and Macedonia. 2003 – Produced 'JOHNNY OWEN – THE LONG JOURNEY' – Double BAFTA award winning documentary for BBC 4 and BBC Wales on the tragic life and death of the Welsh boxer Johnny Owen.
Stephen Cleary
Board Member
I didn't get involved in the film and TV industry until I was 30. Before then I was an independent producer working in the music industry, producing and directing concert films and videos and music documentaries specialising in jazz, blues, gospel and R'n'B. I stopped that for a while in the late 80s to take time to ghost-write the autobiography of singer Nina Simone and then I got involved in film and television drama. I worked at British Screen for five years, being Head of Development for three of them. I executive produced the Short and Curlies scheme for three seasons, designed and co-funded the Premiere short film scheme in Northern Ireland, the Short Cuts scheme in Scotland and the First Take scheme in south-east England. I have developed over 50 produced features, including Rob Roy, Before The Rain, The Escapist, Land and Freedom, The Killer Tongue, Photographing Fairies, The Darkest Light and The Governess. I produced my first feature, New Years' Day in 2000, and co-produced another, Goodbye Charlie Bright the same year. I founded Arista in 1996 and it's now Europe's largest private development agency working with filmmakers across Europe as well as a variety of financing and development institutions. I'm a consultant to the ACE programme in Paris, and sit on various industry boards, most enjoyably with the PACT independent producers' group.