Now in its 10th year, Ffresh – the Student Moving Image Festival of Wales – features the best student work from Wales, the UK, and abroad, along with masterclasses, panel sessions and workshops with some of the industry’s most renowned and respected figures. Previous guests have included directors Stephen Frears, Sergey Dvortsevoy, and Gaston Kaboré; screenwriters Andrew Davies and Tim Firth; producers Stephen Garrett and Sally Hibbin; highly acclaimed visual artists Lichtfaktor and Semiconductor; international S/FX companies The Mill and Double Negative; Oscar winning editor Jim Clark; and animators Johnny Kelly, Phil Mulloy, & Peter Dodd, amongst many others.

The festival programme also includes all the shortlisted work for the prestigious Ffresh Awards, which consists of 14 categories of excellence, which students from around Wales and the UK can submit their work into. The winners are announced during the Ffresh Awards Show on the final night of the festival. Ffresh also works together with 14 partner festivals around the world who annually select work to feature as part of the festival programme.



Ffresh 2012 will take place at the Newport Film School (Wales, UK) from February 8th – 10th 2012. To find out previous award winners or how to enter your work into the 2012 Ffresh Awards go to www.ffresh.com.