WOW Blog
A busy start to Chwefror and we finally have our 2021 festival dates: 11-21 March.
In the space of 2 weeks we have been able to confirm 15 films, with more in the pipeline. Some brilliant guests and events planned too.
We'll make further announcements next week... things are getting exciting already!
When we decided to reschedule WOW 2020 shortly before the UK's first lockdown came in, we never expected that almost a year later we would be in a similar position in 2021.
But here we are. And so the 2021 edition of WOW Film Festival, in it's 20th anniversary year, will be held online.
The line-up is beginning to shape up as well as an events programme of discussions and social events.
Watch this space for more news in the coming weeks.
WOW Film Festival & Mencap Ceredigion present...
FREE Animation Workshops
on ZOOM
Ceredigion Animation Club is a fun and friendly group for neurodiverse people, such as those with learning disabilities, autism or ADHD. Everybody is welcome, wherever you are in Wales.
You are invited to take part in the “Being Me” project and make an animated self-portrait. There will be 6 Zoom workshops during January - March.
Dates & Times: Tuesday 26 January, 9 Chwefror, 23 Chwefror, 2 March, 16 March, 30 March, 6 - 8pm
To join us, contact Rhowan Alleyne
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phone: 07817 783 192
Gŵyl Ffilm WOW a Mencap Ceredigion yn cyflwyno ...
Gweithdai Animeiddio ar ZOOM
AM DDIM
Mae Clwb Animeiddio Ceredigion yn grŵp hwyliog a chyfeillgar ar gyfer pobl niwroamrywiol, fel y rheiny sydd ag anableddau dysgu, awtistiaeth neu ADHD. Mae croeso i bawb, ble bynnag yr ydych yng Nghymru.
Fe'ch gwahoddir i gymryd rhan yn y prosiect “Fi fy Hun” a gwneud hunanbortread animeiddiedig. Bydd 6 gweithdy Zoom yn ystod Ionawr - Mawrth.
Dyddiadau ac Amserau: Dydd Mawrth 26 Ionawr, 9 Chwefror, 23 Chwefror, 2 Mawrth, 16 Mawrth, 30 Mawrth, 6 - 8pm
I ymuno â ni, cysylltwch â Rhowan Alleyne
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ffôn: 07817 783 192
An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans
Stop. Just stop.
It is no longer a request. It is a mandate.
We will help you.
We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt
We will stop
the planes
the trains
the schools
the malls
the meetings
the frenetic, hurried rush of illusions and “obligations” that keep you from hearing our
single and shared beating heart,
the way we breathe together, in unison.
Our obligation is to each other,
As it has always been, even if, even though, you have forgotten.
We will interrupt this broadcast, the endless cacophonous broadcast of divisions and distractions,
to bring you this long-breaking news:
We are not well.
None of us; all of us are suffering.
Last year, the firestorms that scorched the lungs of the earth
did not give you pause.
Nor the typhoons in Africa, China, Japan.
Nor the fevered climates in Japan and India.
You have not been listening.
It is hard to listen when you are so busy all the time, hustling to uphold the comforts and conveniences that scaffold your lives.
But the foundation is giving way,
buckling under the weight of your needs and desires.
We will help you.
We will bring the firestorms to your body
We will bring the fever to your body
We will bring the burning, searing, and flooding to your lungs
that you might hear:
We are not well.
Despite what you might think or feel, we are not the enemy.
We are Messenger. We are Ally. We are a balancing force.
We are asking you:
To stop, to be still, to listen;
To move beyond your individual concerns and consider the concerns of all;
To be with your ignorance, to find your humility, to relinquish your thinking minds and travel deep into the mind of the heart;
To look up into the sky, streaked with fewer planes, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, smoky, smoggy, rainy? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be healthy?
To look at a tree, and see it, to notice its condition: how does its health contribute to the health of the sky, to the air you need to be healthy?
To visit a river, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, clean, murky, polluted? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be healthy? How does its health contribute to the health of the tree, who contributes to the health of the sky, so that you may also be healthy?
Many are afraid now.
Do not demonize your fear, and also, do not let it rule you. Instead, let it speak to you—in your stillness,
listen for its wisdom.
What might it be telling you about what is at work, at issue, at risk, beyond the threats of personal inconvenience and illness?
As the health of a tree, a river, the sky tells you about quality of your own health, what might the quality of your health tell you about the health of the rivers, the trees, the sky, and all of us who share this planet with you?
Stop.
Notice if you are resisting.
Notice what you are resisting.
Ask why.
Stop. Just stop.
Be still.
Listen.
Ask us what we might teach you about illness and healing, about what might be required so that all may be well.
We will help you, if you listen.
-Kristin Flyntz 3.12.2020
Video made by: Darinka Montico
Written by: Kristin Flyntz
Music: Cold Isolation · David Fesliyan
Efallai bod yr ŵyl wedi’i hatal am y tro, ond mae ffilmiau gwych yn parhau. Fel cynulleidfa deyrngar o Ŵyl Ffilmiau WOW, gallwch nawr fwynhau tri mis o MUBI – yn cynnwys Bacurau - yn hollol rad ac am ddim.
Mae'r ffilm Western hon o Brasil sy’n wallgof, dyfeisgar, ffraeth a chanddi dro ffuglen wyddonol, yn wahanol i unrhyw beth y byddwch wedi'i gweld. Mae Teresa yn teithio adref ar gyfer angladd ei mam-gu yn Bacurau, pentref ffuglennol yn y sertão (cefn gwlad Gogledd Brasil) sy'n dathlu ei thrigolion hynod.
Ond ar ôl iddi gyrraedd, mae hi'n cael ei syfrdanu gan gyfres o ddigwyddiadau sinistr sy'n awgrymu ymgais systematig i ddileu’r pentref oddi ar y map. Mae cynddaredd gwyllt a thrais eithafol y ffilm yn amlwg yn riff sinematig ar waith cyfarwyddwyr fel Alejandro Jodorowsky a Sergio Leone. Ond does dim dwywaith hefyd taw ymateb ydyw i ethol Jair Bolsonaro, yr arlywydd de eithafol. Yn rhithweledol ac yn wefreiddiol, mae Bacurau yn brofiad hollol unigryw.
“The combination of satire and savagery is pretty fierce and intriguingly unique.” Daily Telegraph
“utterly distinctive film-making, executed with ruthless clarity and force.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Enillydd Gwobr y Beirniaid Gŵyl Ffilm Cannes 2019
Made in Bangladesh Wales Premiere at The Riverfront Newport
Mer, Maw 18th, 2020 Written by Rhowan Alleyne
Although sadly the remaining WOW Film Festival dates have been cancelled, we wanted to share these pictures from our launch earlier this month at The Riverfront in Newport, where 120 women came together for the Wales premiere of Made in Bangladesh.
The event was a collaboration with Newport's International Women's Day organisers, and drew women from across Newport and Cardiff.
Many thanks to Red Cross Wales, Rajma Begum, Women Connect First, Wales TUC, BAWSO, WEN Wales, Nilu Ahmed, Amy Morris and everyone who made it a great success.
All being well, we hope to be back with more events like these in the not too distant future.
Yng ngoleuni'r amgylchiadau presennol, rydym wedi penderfynu gohirio Gŵyl Ffilm WOW. Ni fydd unrhyw un o'r dangosiadau a'r digwyddiadau sydd ar y gweill dros y mis nesaf yn digwydd. Bydd gan unrhyw un sydd wedi prynu tocyn ymlaen llaw hawl i gael ad-daliad llawn.
Mae hyn yn teimlo fel y peth cyfrifol i'w wneud gan ein bod yn credu mai'r rhesymeg hollgyffredinol yw cyfyngu cyswllt cymdeithasol yn ystod pandemig. Rydym yn gobeithio mai dim ond gohirio yw hwn ac y gallwn redeg yr ŵyl yn nes ymlaen. Fodd bynnag, mae cymaint o bethau anhysbys ar hyn o bryd fel nad yw'n glir a fyddwn mewn sefyllfa i wneud hynny. Byddwn yn eich diweddaru chi i gyd wrth i bethau symud ymlaen.
Os hoffech gael rhestr o ffilmiau argymelledig yn ystod eich cyfnod o hunan-ynysu, croeso i chi fy e-bostio ar gyfer fy argymhellion diweddaraf.
David Gillam
Cyfarwyddwr Gŵyl Ffilm Un Byd WOW Cymru
Diweddariad COVID-19 / Coronafeirws:
Rydym wedi penderfynu gohirio dangosiad y Clwb Ffilm Merched o "Made in Bangladesh" (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, dydd Sadwrn 14 Mawrth) ac "Abercon", ein cynhadledd anime hygyrch (Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth, dydd Sadwrn 21 Mawrth).
Mae Clwb Ffilm Merched WOW ac Abercon yn gwasanaethu rhai o aelodau mwyaf agored i niwed ein cymunedau. Byddai'n anghyfrifol ohonom i roi eu hiechyd ac iechyd eu teuluoedd mewn perygl diangen ar adeg o ansicrwydd mawr.
Mae'n ddrwg gennym achosi unrhyw siom a hoffem ddiolch i bawb sydd wedi cefnogi'r digwyddiadau hyn, gan gynnwys Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Cyngor Dinas Abertawe, Grŵp Ffoaduriaid a Cheiswyr Lloches Merched Abertawe a Mencap Ceredigion.
Ar hyn o bryd, rydym yn ymgynghori â'n lleoliadau partner ynghylch a ddylid bwrw ymlaen nawr â gweddill rhaglen Gŵyl Ffilm WOW ai peidio, a byddwn yn postio diweddariadau yma.
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