The Student Moving Image Festival Of Wales

Factual Shortlist

12.02.2010 | 10:00 | Great Hall

Dear Matthew
Keith O’Shea
IFSW, University of Wales, Newport

In January 1999 Matthew O’Reilly left his parents home in Barnstaple, Devon, he has not been seen since. All that remains of him are his paintings which his father, Tim curates.

Five Ways of Seeing Iraq
Hashem Zaini
University of Glamorgan

Glimpses of life in a country rebuilding and remembering.

Letters to Angola: an unlikely friendship
Joseph Sharp & Lauren Muchan
IFSW, University of Wales, Newport/ YFfRC, Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd

A documentary story of an unlikely friendship between a young British girl and a Southern American Black Panther, who has been incarcerated in solitary confinement in Angola Prison Louisiana, for 37 years.

The Horse: His Industry, Our Industry
Eleanor Flaherty
University of Wales, Lampeter

A documentary celebrating the role of the working horse in South Powys.

Tough Guy 453
James Birkett, Michael Howard & Laurence Cameron
IFSW, University of Wales, Newport

The story behind the UK Tough Guy competition – Billed as the most physically challenging, mentally demanding, fear inducing ordeals in the world.  This film follows the four time runner-up James Appleton, who dreams of one day being crowned "Tough Guy Supreme"