Janis Pugh
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Janis is featured in Screen International's UK Stars of Tomorrow - Class of 2008
"Janis Pugh has been making no-budget shorts, inspired by the stories of her home town of Flint in north Wales, for almost a decade. Her break came in 2005 with documentary short House about elderly women playing bingo and reminiscing about their lives. It won her a scholarship to the London Film School. Pugh graduated last year with Blue Collars And Buttercups which screened at the Locarno, Lodz and Brest film festivals. Part-autobiographical, it is about a young woman with dreams of escaping a life of drudgery in a chicken factory. Mixing quirky visuals with a vivid sense of location, the film's humour and authentic characters have won Pugh fans in the UKFC and the BBC. She is about to shoot a short opera for ITV Wales and is developing the short Magna Mater about the changing stages of women's lives. Then there are two features: Balaclava Sands about a girl growing up during the social and economic chaos of the 1980s, and Sitting On The Fence With God, which will be a shift in gear from her usual style. "My films give a voice to a section of the UK whose stories have been ignored for too long," she says."
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Janis is to Direct a short contemporary opera for ITV in August
Tina has a unique view on life and a definite idea of how she wants hers to turn out.
Only when she learns to accept the nurture of her family & friends will her confidence match her stature...
Tel Aviv International Film Festival, 2008 - Jury's final selection
Eat My Shorts - NFT - 2008
5th International Film Festival Portugal - 2008
Tampere International Film Festival, Finland - 2008
Exposures Film Festival 2007, Manchester, UK. The film is featured on the "Best of the Fest" DVD
Winner of the Special Kodak Prize at the 14th International MediaSchool Festival in Lodz, Poland in October 2007
Brest European Film Festival 2007, 10th - 18th November (Poster copyright: Fabrice Pelle)
The film was selected for entry in the Leopards of Tomorrow International Film Competition at the Locarno Film Festival 2007
It was one of only 23 titles selected for this section from the 2,500 submitted, and the SOLE ENTRANT FROM THE UK.
Cannes Film Festival 2007 - the film was shown in the Short Films Corner
Edinburgh International Fim Festival 2007
Fresh Film Festival Prague 2007
BBC Wales interview (05/07/07)
Janis was interviewed recently by Adam Walton on BBC Wales about her love for North Wales, the people and the places that draw her to film there. Click on the links to the right to hear some excerpts.
Many thanks to everyone who attended the Premiere in North Wales at Theatr Clwyd - The Evening Leader has published a feature on the event and my work! Please click on the links below to view:
A big thanks to those who have already joined my Friends of Janis Pugh Scheme, your support is invaluable!
Please click on the Friends Scheme link or if you would like further information please email me at: pughjan@yahoo.co.uk