Amy Daniel

I am a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose work has broadcast and screened internationally, including at BAFTA and Academy Award-qualifying festivals. In partnership with Aberystwyth University, I’m currently developing a carbon neutral production company, supported by Media Cymru, which aims to create systemic change in the way film and television is made. 

A selection of research grants, commissions, and speaking engagements that I've undertaken since working with Aberystwyth University can be found below. Prior to moving to Wales, I worked internationally as a filmmaker, including projects in London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, as well as teaching filmmaking to women working towards conflict resolution in Israel and Palestine. 

• Commissioned Filmmaker, ‘Journey to Wellness: the co-creation of an intervention for forced migrant women’, with Sheva Martin, Baobab Women's Project, and Professor Jenny Phillimore, University of Birmingham, 2024
• Panel speaker, ‘International Women's Day 2024: Who's afraid of innovation?', Media Cymru, BBC Cymru Wales Central Square.
• Selected for AberSEED, 2024.
• Project Lead, Media Cymru Development Fund, 2024.
• Panel speaker, ‘Skills of the Future’, BAFTA Albert ‘Screen New Deal’ launch, 2023.
• Director, Cerys Hafana music videos: ‘Child Owlet’, ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well', ‘Y Môr o Wydr’, ‘Comed 1858’, 2023-24.
• Project Lead, Media Cymru Seed Fund, 2023.
• Commissioned Filmmaker, ‘Tywyddiaduron’, 2023, cross-disciplinary climate project.
• Selected for the Media Cymru Innovation Lab, 2023.
• Commissioned Filmmaker, ‘Ysbrydion’, 2022, National Eisteddfod, broadcast by S4C, winner of Best LGBT Film award at 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival.
• Commissioned Filmmaker, ‘Refugees from National Socialism in Wales’, 2022, installation film, exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Pierhead Building, Cardiff, Houses of Parliament, London.
• Jury member, ‘Her Ffilm Fer’, S4C, 2021.
• Commissioned Filmmaker, ‘Human Threads’, 2021, multimedia installation, Ceredigion Museum.
• International Selection Committee, The Iris Prize Film Festival, 2020 - present.
• Writer-Director, ‘The Legend of Bryngolau’, 2020, nominated for Lawrence Kasdan award at 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, international premiere at New School, New York.
• Writer-Director, ‘Arth’, 2018, winner of Straeon Iris award, broadcast by S4C, screened at Aesthetica Film Festival, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Shanghai Film Festival, Geelong Film Festival.