Staying (Aros Mae)

Directed by Zillah Bowes

Produced by Jack Thomas-O’Brien

A woman from the city has a brief but life-changing connection with a hill farmer and the landscape in remote Mid Wales.

‘Staying (Aros Mae)’ features real-life members of a traditional hill farming community in Radnorshire, Mid Wales, whose way of life is changing due to climate crisis, Brexit and the UK economy.

Festival Screenings

Cork International Film Festival 2020
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2021
Encounters Film Festival 2021 & 2022
Premiers Plans Angers Film Festival 2021
Bolton Film Festival 2021
The Shortest Nights - Shortsighted Cinema 2021
EFN Film Festival 2021
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2021
This is England Film Festival 2021
Cinemagic Film Festival 2021
Castellinaria Film Festival 2021
Whistler Film Festival 2021
This Way Up 2021
British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin 2022
Celtic Film Festival, Paris 2022
Kingston International Film Festival 2022

Soft Facts

Directed by Paul Copeland

Produced by Jack Thomas-O’Brien

Maia McCarthy has disappeared in a war zone leaving only a cryptic voice note. Aided by an anonymous hacker her husband Danny follows an online trail into her secret world…

A Syrian doctor, a mysterious taxi driver, and the trauma of a miscarriage…

The facts themselves are never what they seem.

Pylon

Directed by Barnaby Blackburn

Produced by Jack Thomas-O’Brien