GERALD CONN

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Gerald Conn is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have been broadcast on UK television and shown at numerous international festivals. He specialises in sand-on-glass animation and has been nominated for five BAFTA Cymru awards and has won a BAFTA Cymru for best animation. He has travelled to France, India, Japan and Ethiopia to present his work and In 2009 he created work for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC. In 2010 he established Gritty Realism Productions. He currently has an animated feature in pre-production based on Joseph Conrad’s HEART OF DARKNESS and his most recent film INNER POLAR BEAR has won awards in the UK, India, Malaysia, Japan, Germany and the US.

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Mae Gerald Conn yn wneuthurwr ffilm sydd wedi ennill gwobrau, y mae ei ffilmiau wedi cael eu dangos ar deledu Prydain ac mewn sawl gŵyl ryngwladol. Mae’n arbenigo mewn animeiddio tywod-ar-wydr ac mae wedi cael ei enwebu am bum Gwobr BAFTA Cymru, ac wedi ennill gwobr BAFTA Cymru am yr Animeiddiad Gorau. Mae wedi teithio i Ffrainc, India, Japan ac Ethiopia i gyflwyno ei waith, ac yn 2009 creodd waith ar gyfer Gŵyl Bywyd Gwerin Smithsonian yn Washington DC.

 Yn 2010 sefydlodd Gritty Realism Productions.

 Ar hyn o bryd mae ganddo ffilm animeiddiedig ar y cam cyn-cynhyrchu sy’n seiliedig ar HEART OF DARKNESS gan Joseph Conrad ac mae ei ffilm ddiweddaraf INNER POLAR BEAR wedi ennill gwobrau yng ngwledydd Prydain, India, Malaysia, Japan, yr Almaen a'r Unol Daleithiau.