18th January 2006
BBC Wales - Online
Hawk - the movie
A film company co-founded by friends including two former students from NEWI, Wrexham, has shot a movie in North Wales called Hawk about a boy who retreats into a world of fantasy based on Celtic folklore.
Hawk - film synopsis: Having spent his youth with only his reclusive grandfather, Rowan is left alone when his only connection to the outside world succumbs to the bitter cold of the Welsh winter. Rowan then becomes fearful of the world that lies beyond his woodland life and retreats into a world of fantasy created by his grandfather's stories of Celtic folklore.
The short film has been made by 11:22 Entertainment which was set up by Michael McMahon from Rhyl and Sean McArdell from Barmouth - former film & TV HND students from NEWI - with London based Matt Jones. In October 2005 they spent two weeks in Snowdonia, Ruthin and Dinas Brân in Llangollen, with a crew of 40.
Sean said: "We see North Wales as having a wealth of stunning locations. It offers a wonderfully varied pallete of diverse shooting locations to suit any production and we aim to do for North Wales with our projects what Peter Jackson did for New Zealand with Lord of the Rings." He said: "We want to integrate students at NEWI into the industry to give them the opportunity we never had when we were students. On our project Hawk we went some way to start doing that by inviting three students to work on-set for a fortnight."
11:22 Entertainment hope to open a North Wales office in NEWI. And they plan to have Hawk ready to take to the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006.
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