An insight into life at the historic Swansea Indoor Market will kick-off the Celtic Media Festival in the city this week
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A programme chronicling life at Swansea Indoor Market will start on BBC1 Wales next month. The first episode of the forthcoming four-part series is being screened at the Marriot Hotel on Wednesday evening at 7pm as part of the Celtic Media Festival.
The Celtic Media Festival is an annual three-day celebration of broadcasting, film talent and excellence from Scotland, Isle of Man, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales and Brittany. It’s being supported by broadcast, film, cultural and economic development organisations throughout the Celtic countries.
This is the first time the festival, which lasts from Wednesday April 24 to Friday April 26, will be staged in Swansea.
Cllr Nick Bradley, Swansea Council’s Cabinet Member for Regeneration, said: “Swansea Indoor Market is a key part of our city centre and it’s important we do what we can to make the most of it. This is why we’ve earmarked more than £1 million for a project that will include the upgrade of its famous dome roof and could see other improvements like more floor space and better entrances too.
“It’s apt that a programme focussing on the comings and goings of our historic market should open the Celtic Media Festival here because it’s been a successful feature ofSwansea city centre for such a long time.
“The arrival of the festival is yet another boost for Swansea’s status as a top city of culture at a time when other attractions like the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery are also being upgraded and we’re making preparations to mark the 100th anniversary of Dylan Thomas’ birth next year.”
Other festival events members of the public can get tickets for include Saving the Titanic and Vampire Guitar. Saving the Titanic, being shown at 2.30pm on Wednesday April 24 at the National Waterfront Museum, is a film that explores what happened below deck, in the engine and boiler rooms, after the collision with the iceberg. Vampire Guitar, being shown at the Marriot Hotel on Thursday April 25 at 5pm, is a Welsh-made black comedy that follows the search for a killer guitar and its attendant roadie.
Hundreds of delegates are expected to attend other events and workshops in the festival. Among the speakers is Peter Devlin, a Hollywood sound mixer with Oscar nominations for his work on Star Trek, Transformers and Pearl Harbour. Some of the directors Peter’s worked with include Ron Howard, Oliver Stone and JJ Abrams, who’s recently been picked to direct the next batch of Star Wars movies.
Other speakers include Guto Harri, News International’s Director of Communications, and Birger Larsen, the director of ‘The Killing’, a major Danish international hit TV programme.
Have a look at http://www.celticmediafestival.co.uk for more information or emailross@celticmediafestival.co.uk if you’d like to get hold of tickets for any of the public events.
