Chuck Chuck Baby, Steeltown Murders and Strike! The Women Who Fought Back each received two awards at this year’s BAFTA Cymru Awards, presented at the ceremony held in Newport last night.
Chuck Chuck Baby won for Feature/TV Film and Janis Pugh won the Breakthrough Cymru award for her work on the film.
Steeltown Murders won Television Drama with Dawn Thomas Mondo receiving the Costume Design award.
Strike! The Women Who Fought Back saw Jess Howe winning Director Factual and the programme receiving the award for Single Documentary.
Annes Elwy won her first BAFTA Cymru award for Actress for her performance in Bariau. While Ncuti Gatwa received his first BAFTA Cymru Award for Actor in Doctor Who. Joining first time winners is Matthew Barry who received the Writer award for Men Up.
Entertainment Programme went to Max Boyce at 80 and Factual series was won by Y Frwydr: Stori Anabledd in which last year’s Breakthrough winner actress Mared Jarman goes on a journey to learn about the history of disability in Wales.
Euros Lyn won Director: Fiction for Heartstopper, Bryan Gavigan received the Photography & Lighting: Fiction for his work on The Passenger and the Sound Team for Wolf received the Sound award.
Photography: Factual was awarded to Theo Tennant for the short film Frontier Town, Children’s Programme went to Ser Steilio and the Short Film category was won by Smile.
Producer, Julie Gardner MBE was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award presented by Executive Producer and co-founder of Bad Wolf, Jane Tranter.
Actress Nia Roberts awarded Mark Lewis Jones with the Siân Phillips Award.
21 competitive awards in total were presented across the evening as well as two BAFTA special awards.
The BAFTA Cymru Awards’ partners and supporters are BBC Cymru Wales, Champagne Taittinger, Coco & Cwtsh, Creative Wales, Deloitte, EE, Executive Cars Wales, Gorilla, Hildon, Lancôme, S4C, Villa Maria and Welsh Government via Creative Wales.
Pippa Considine
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