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BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for Wales
Sgil Cymru, Creative Wales and Screen Alliance Wales (SAW) partner to launch the ‘One Stop Shop’, a BFI Skills Cluster for Wales supporting workforce development of the nation’s screen production sector.
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All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
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The Book of Clarence: a messy, genre-blending Biblical epic
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