Welcome to Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, the highly successful BAFTA Cymru and now BAFTA British Short Film Competition Qualifying Festival.
We are honoured to have been added to the BAFTA British Short Film Competition B list of qualifying festivals and one of only two based here in Wales.
To find out more about rules and regulations concerning BAFTA, please visit their website.
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival has gone from strength to strength over the years. From our first festival in 2012, we have gone from 35 submissions to well over 1000 from 70 plus countries for our 2020 festival. Not only have the submissions increased over the years, but the number of filmmakers and festival patrons attending has as well.
Our 2022 festival will be our 11th festival, and we intend to be live and in person at the impressive Ffwrnes Theatre in Llanelli, the jewel in the crown of Carmarthenshire Theatres here in Wales. We will also be screening online on the Sparqfest Film Festival Platform.
The CBFF team are already working on a fantastic programme to complement the selected and in competition films, which will be announced closer to the festival.
It's all about the celebration of excellence and our motto is:
‘Excellence Should Be Seen On Screen’ and we will always be a champion of independent film.
Films Judge by Industry Jury,
Widely promoted Festival,
Committed to Transparency,
BAFTA British Short Film Competition Qualifying Festival
BAFTA Cymru Qualifying Festival
IMDB Qualifying.
We are also very proud to have the name of John Hefin associated with the festival. With the John Hefin Award lifetime achievement award. And we are delighted that John Morgan of JM Creative accepted this award during our 2019 awards gala.
Would you please read the brief bio about John below?
John Hefin first became involved in television work in 1960, when he responded to a newspaper advertisement for apprentice production assistants. During the 1960s, he worked as a producer and director for BBC Wales. In 1974, he helped create the Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm, the longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC. He also co-wrote and directed the 1978 TV rugby comedy film Grand Slam and led the 1981 drama series The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. This nine-part series, a biopic based on the Welsh PM, drew on conversations with Lady Olwen, his eldest daughter, and AJ Sylvester, his secretary. In 1984, John was the director for the narration for an animated version of Prince Charles's children's story, The Old Man of Lochnagar.
Following his post as Head of Drama with BBC Wales, he worked in the Theatre, Film and Television Studies Department at Aberystwyth University. In 1988, he became the artistic director of Film Cymru (later renamed the Wales Film Council), entrusted with commissioning films from independent Welsh producers using S4C funds. He was also Chairman of the Film Commission Wales and Chair of Cyfrwng, a Welsh media journal and network. He retired from the BBC in 1993. In 2004, he directed and filmed part of a documentary featuring the artist Sir Kyffin Williams, Reflections in a Gondola
John was awarded the MBE in 2009 for "services to Welsh film and drama". In 2012, he was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television Drama.
#CBFF2022 BREAKING NEWS
All of us here at CBFF would like to give a big thank you to the Rapids Network for adding something very special to next year’s Carmarthen Bay Film Festival #CBFF2022.
The entertainment and streaming cryptocurrency and blockchain network will once again be our Short Film category sponsor and festival partner and are also offering 10 000 Rapids (RPD) to the winner of the #CBFF Best Short Film.
This will mean that the #CBFF2022 Best Short Film winner will have the opportunity to deploy a #Rapids Master Node on the Rapids blockchain and so be able to generate a passive income that could even go some way to financing; their future projects!!!
This is a marvellous prize, and we are extremely grateful to the whole Rapids Network Team.
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival is now a BAFTA Cymru/Wales qualifying festival.
By being ‘officially selected’, your film has been considered to be, of a high standard and worthy of being screened during the festival itself. This is the first step of a three-stage process.
For the next stage, a number of the ‘officially selected’ films are then shortlisted to be judged for the category awards. These are the ‘nominated’ films.
The last stage is winning your selected category.