Year of Legends mini-films

This is the Year of Legends, as decided by the tourist board, Visit Wales. Since last summer I’ve been organising a series of theatrical events for the Dyfi Biosphere – the remarkable but little-recognised local UNESCO-designated area.

To promote the events and the Dyfi Biosphere itself, Rhys and I (and his production company Fforest Films) pitched to make a series of very short films of legends. The idea we had was to combat the slow, earnest, weirdy-woo way that stories are often told, and catapult them into the breakneck world of social media. I wrote the scripts, and it was great fun paring down the stories to the absolute bare bones, while still leaving in enough poetry to make them emotive and worth watching.

I reckon we succeeded. We’ve got a lot of enthusiastic responses, and will likely make more in the future. See what you reckon. There are Welsh and english versions of each one – try the Welsh version even if you don’t speak Welsh; there are subtitles and the language adds some atmosphere, I think.

No donkeys, I’m afraid, but one pig…

PS Technical note: These went out on Facebook where they got thousands of views but are rather low resolution. On Youtube they’re 4K, should your internet cope with all those bytes!