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Made in Wales: Celebrating Films with Welsh Connections
'Made in Wales' is a Film Hub Wales project, celebrating films with Welsh connections. It is supported by funding from Creative Wales and National Lottery funding via the BFI.
This podcast series contains interviews with filmmakers, cast and crew.
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Made in Wales: Celebrating Films with Welsh Connections
Effi o Blaenau Q&A with star Leisa Gwenllian, director Marc Evans - English
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In the latest Made in Wales podcast for Film Hub Wales Welsh Director Marc Evans and actor Leisa Gwenllian discuss new release Effi o Blaenau with author and broadcaster Lowri Haf Cooke.
Set in the industrial slate mountains of Blaenau Ffestiniog, don't miss this searing modern portrayal of Wales on screen. In the words of Marc Evans a film "that speaks and dreams and sings and loves and fights in Welsh..”
The podcast is available in English and Welsh.
In cinemas from June 19 2026 via MetFilm, the story follows Effi, a young woman desperate to escape a town where the pubs are closed, the jobs have vanished and her grandmother works night shifts in the local chip shop just to get by. A chance encounter in a Llandudno nightclub with injured soldier Lee, played by Tom Rhys Harries, briefly opens a door to something better. For a moment, Effi glimpses a life she never imagined. The reality that follows is far tougher.
Filmed in Wales, with a host of Welsh connections and funding from Creative Wales and S4C.
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'Made in Wales' is a Film Hub Wales project, celebrating films with Welsh connections. It is supported by funding from Creative Wales and National Lottery funding via the BFI.