
Team

Writer / Director
DAN FREEMAN
Multi award-winning writer, director and producer. He is also a BBC scriptwriting tutor, author and hit playwright, and pioneered the audio movie and webcast forms for the BBC. Stephen Fry described his work as "exquisite", and Brian Blessed calls him "a ****ing genius!".

Bard / Welsh Language Consultant
ANEIRIN KARADOG
A poet, broadcaster and linguist who has published several volumes of poetry and adapted volumes. Aneirin co-hosts a monthly Welsh language poetry podcast with Eurig Salisbury.

Producer
MICHAEL RILEY
One of the UK's most prolific and respected independent film producers, having made over 30 feature films with actors such as Harvey Keitel and Rupert Everett, and including hits such as Fear The Invisible Man.

Costume & Creatures
AMANDA THOMAS
Hugely experienced Head of Department and maker who has worked on legendary productions from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox to Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie.

Bard / Welsh Language Consultant
EURIG SALISBURY
A poet and novelist, Eurig has published three collections of poetry and was Bardd Plant Cymru, a Hay Festival International Fellow, and won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2016.

Armourer
AARON HOUGHTON
A Blacksmith from Eryri with over a decade of experience in the craft. He runs Royal Oak Forge, specialising in historic commissions and blacksmithing tuition, and serves as Chairman of the Black Crow Historical Society. He is a sword and buckler instructor at the North Wales HEMA Academy and works in film and television armoury and fight choreography.

Commercial Strategist
NEIL PATRICK
One of Wales' most successful business innovators and strategists. He co-founded Wales' largest-ever venture capital-backed startup, and serves as an advisor to multiple public and private sector organisations. As Chair of Finance and Performance Committee for The Aneurin Bevan University Hostpital Board he has oversight of a £2BN annual budget.

Platform and Audience Strategy
GEORGE DIXON
An expert commercial strategist and one of the worlds must succesful leaders in identifying and backing world-class scripted content. His hits include Luther, Black Mirror and Top Boy. He has regularly handled budgets of >£600m.

Production Designer
DAVID PALSER
Acclaimed Slade School-trained bestselling contemporary artist. He has created the visual style of scores of films and TV and stage shows. He has been Artist in Residence at the ICA and lectures internationally on fine art.

Director of Animation
Paul Thomas
Hugely experienced animator whose hits include Rastamouse, Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and BAFTA winning Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

Fight Director
KENAN ALI
Equity Registered Fight Director, accredited BADC combat tutor and dedicated martial artist. He has a growing list of theatre and film credits and currently teaches dramatic combat at conservatoires and universities across the UK, including LIPA, the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds Conservatoire.

Head of Interactive
Adam Ford
Adam lives on Ynys Mon, dodging monsters and making innovative websites and interactive systems.