Rhodri ap Dyfrig

Boomerang Partnership Development Officer
BA Language and Communication (Cardiff) Photograph of Rhodri ap Dyfrig.

Contact

Email: rla@aber.ac.uk
Office: Boomerang Office, Parry Williams Building
Phone: 01970 621982

Responsibilities

Coordinator of the Department's working partnership with the Boomerang Plus plc media production group. Project manager and editor of www.ynyffram.org film and television teaching resource


Research

Regional and minority language media, Welsh language films, digital media and convergence in Wales.

Publications

Monographs (co-written)

  • ap Dyfrig, R., Jones, E H G, Jones, G. The Welsh Language in the Media (Aberystwyth: Mercator Media, Mercator Media Monographs, 2006)

Co-Edited Journals

  • Mercator Media Forum 10 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007) (with George Jones)

Conference Papers

  • 'The Media: Opportunities and Challenges for Linguistic Diversity' at Xornaes Sobre Mocedá y Llingües Minorizaes, Uviéu/Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (May, 2009)
  • 'O'r Ddaear Hen - Cloddio am Ffilmiau Cymraeg' (with Kate Woodward) at Cyfrwng Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales (May, 2008)
  • 'Mercator Media, The European Context', presented at ‘Lenghis Altris e Media (Other Languages and Media)’, Udin, Friûl, Italy (November, 2005)

Reviews

  • 'Gwyl Fflics', Barn 538 (November 2007)
  • 'Grey Gardens', Barn 536 (September 2007)
  • 'The Battle of Algiers', Barn, 533 (June 2007)
  • 'The Grifters', Barn, 531 (April 2007)

Articles

  • 'Y Gorau O'r Gwaethaf', Barn (November 2008)
  • 'Diflaniad y Ffilm Gymraeg', Barn, 537 (October 2007)
  • Sws Sws, Bang Bang, Tu Chwith (2006)

Additional Interests

In his spare time Rhodri organises film screenings and events through the Pictiwrs Film Society. The society has held over 40 screenings in over 15 locations across Wales. Pictiwrs also recently compiled a DVD of six Welsh language films with Tu Chwith magazine.

He has also produced a 9-minute short film, Y Fargen (2006), which can be seen here (with English subtitles).

He is a keen blogger and is interested in developments in cinema, technology and social media, particularly in terms of minority languages.