Janis Pugh
News & Events
Balaclava Sands is now in development with the support of the UK Film Council and Film Agency for Wales. Read more about Balaclava Sands
Blue Collars and Buttercups continues to be very well received at festivals all over the world.
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...Read more about Blue Collars & Buttercups
Butterfly was nominated for the Best Short Film award at this year's Bafta Cymru event. Read more about Butterfly
"Who’ll make it big in the arts world in 2009?"
Janis featured in the Western Mail - click here to read their "pick of the New Year hot shots"
Janis 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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An Evening of Short Films by Janis Pugh
Theatr Clwyd, Mold, North Wales
The screening evening at Theatr Clwyd was a huge success.
"Coming home to make a film is not only inspiring, for me it's the heart of my storytelling. My aim in the next few years is to put North Wales and its culture on the map of British cinema - it's an amazing place, the people are fantastic and it's about time the world heard our voice."
If you would like further information please email me at: pughjan@yahoo.co.uk