Public service Broadcasting have a fantastic new album. Every Valley is a chronicle of the rise and destruction of the Welsh coalmining industry and features the voice of Richard Burton, James Dean Bradfield of Welsh band Manic Street Preachers as well as a Welsh language song performed by Lisa Jên Brown
Read MoreAdam Curtis is one of my favorite documentary filmmakers and Adam Buxton hosts one of my favorite podcasts. So I was very excited to hear Buxton's latest episode featured Curtis himself in a fascinating listen. Curtis describes his work as journalism that happens to be expounded via the medium of film. What I especially love about Curtis style of filmmaking is the way he uses old discarded BBC news footage, the kind of footage you usually don't get to see, and plays it back to us in long, uncut edits that viewers are not used to seeing with today's short attention spans.
Read MorePaul McCartney, Jack Dee, Richard Coles, Ben Okri and more, feature in the latest film I've produced for Goldmark . A commercial that's been running on Facebook, that shows just how incredible a place Goldmark Gallery really is. Watch the film below...
Read MoreI recently got around to watching the excellent three part Netflix documentary series by Mark Harris. Five Came Back tells the riveting story of US studio directors’ impact on the Second World War.
Read MoreThis is like BBC's The Great Pottery Throw Down on acid. Another Goldmark Gallery film for you on Internationally renowned studio potter Phil Rogers...
Read MoreTwo new films have recently been released by Goldmark Art featuring the work of Internationally renowned studio potter Phil Rogers.
Read MoreI listen to a lot of podcasts and many of them are filmmaking related as you'd expect....
Read MoreMarket Hall Cinema in Brynmawr first opened to the public in 1894. In 2013 following the decision to close her forever, a group of passionate but angry people met on the Market Square to fight to save it. In 2014 the cinema won the national cinema of the year award
Read MoreSix Nations chiefs recently ruled out the introduction of relegation and promotion format to the worlds oldest international rugby tournament.
For all the talk of growing the game by World Rugby, the 8 founder unions of England, France, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa seem to be afraid of losing control of the game and have continually held back the expansion into other countries , instead keeping the game as a cosy old boys club just for them.
In recent years, however, there have been moves by the founder Big 8 unions to move into the Amercian market.
Therefore, why don't the 6 Nations look to tap into the American market by adding USA & Canada to the tournament and make it 8 nations split into 2 pools of 4 with end of season grand final and relegation playoff with Rugby Europe (6 nations B). TV and sponsors would love it and this would open up the game to continental Europe and North America overnight. Sadly it won't happen as the game is run by officials with self-interest, who are afraid of change and losing control.
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