Amy Daniel

I am a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose work has broadcast and exhibited internationally, including in competition at BAFTA and Academy Award-qualifying festivals. I am currently working with WOW Film Festival to support and develop community cinemas in West Wales for the BFI Spotlight programme. 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, and teaching filmmaking to women working towards conflict resolution in Palestine and Israel. 

• Producer, WOW Film Festival, BFI Spotlight Programme, 2026-ongoing.
• Commissioned filmmaker, ‘Organs of Sense’, video installation with cadavre exquis poem, made for the exhibition ‘Reading the Landscape: Spineless Wonders’, co-organised by Aberystwyth School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) to celebrate Aberystwyth's UNESCO City of Literature status, 2026.
• Director, music video for ‘Angel’ by Cerys Hafana, 2025.
• Work in progress audio visual installation, ‘Transmission’, in collaboration with Naomi Pearce, Gŵyl Cariad Arts Festival, 2025.
• Project Lead, Ton Newydd Cymru | The Welsh New Wave, funded by Cynnal y Cardi, UK Shared Prosperity Fund, 2024.
• Commissioned Filmmaker, ‘When the Earth Speaks’, with Miranda Whall, 2024, exhibited at Vane Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne, ‘Celebrating the Life and Genius of Brian Catling’, Candid Arts Trust, London, and SOIL, Somerset House, London, 2025.
• 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, screening at the The 20th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference (IASFM20), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2025.
• 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, Melbourne Film Festival.