Cinetig has teamed up with a number of high profile partners including Beryl Productions, Fiction Factory and Chapter Cinema to become First Light’s Filmmaking Partners in Wales. Over the next two years we will be introducing a group of young people to all aspects of the filmmaking process and producing a number of short films.

COLOUR CRAZY, a collaboration between Cinetig and Maes Y Haul Primary school, Bridgend won the First Light award at the Odeon Leicester Square for best animation in March.

Jane Hubbard’s latest short film BEHIND THE STONE has received development funding from S4C. The film will explore the story behind Welsh War memorials using a mix of live-action and digital animation.

Cinetig film BOOKTOWN has won 1st prize in the Youth Work in Wales Excellence Awards 2005. The film made under the direction of Cinetig by young people from the The Doorway Youth Information Centre in Blaenavon was funded by The National Museum of Wales as part of its ‘On Common Ground’ scheme. The awards ceremony took place at the Millenium Centre in Cardiff Bay and was attended by National Assembly Minister Jane Davidson. The short animated film explores in a humorous way the young people’s views on the rapid changes that are taking place in their community.

Gerald Conn has been working with artist Sean Harris on an animated adaptation of an ancient story taken from an episode in the story of Culhwch and Olwen concerning the hunt for a ferocious wild boar across Ireland and Wales. The project has received support so far from Artworks Wales and is digitally combining animated prints with artefacts from the collection of a number of national museums.

Following the success of ‘Just a Cool Place’ Cinetig has made a new film exploring the history of Cardiff Bay made with a number of local Primary Schools. TIGER BAY NATION is based on the childhood reminiscences of historian Neil Sinclair and was made as part of the Cardiff 2005 celebrations. It will be screened at St David’s Hall and at the Black Welsh Film Festival 2005.