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Cinema
Wales "Over twenty years ago, Welsh film-maker Wil Aaron in, The Arts in Wales (1950-1975, Welsh Arts Council, 1979) describes the "film scene" with rhetorical cynicism, "Film was never made to feel very welcome in Wales. As a two or three year old infant, stinking slightly of gin and the sweat of the fairground, it ran slap up against Evan Roberts and the [religious] Revival of 1904-5 and was severely mauled. It survives - but remains retarded to this day." Contrast the comment by film director and media lecturer Michele Ryan, in Wales: The Imagined Nation (Tony Curtis, ed., 1986), "In many countries film is recognized as an important form of cultural expression capable of reaching a great many people. It is time that those people who can influence cultural policies in Wales recognized that fact, and began to establish the framework that would allow such a film culture to develop." Dave Berry, Wales & Cinema 1996 BREAKING NEWS
Americans discover Welsh roots Inside knowledge lands £7m thriller for Wales Film minister issues 'ghetto' warning MP lays claim to Arthurian legend Star attraction of Welsh locations
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