Effi o Blaenau, shot by WPA client Eira Wyn Jones, premiered at Glasgow Film Festival this week and The Hollywood Reporter chatted to director Marc Evans about the film’s success.

“Evans highlights that the young star’s connection with cinematographer Eira Wyn Jones was key to the production. “I was very aware that I was a man telling a woman’s story,” he tells THR. “So I was very keen to feminize the shoot and work with a lot of women. So I wanted a female DOP, and I found Eira, who lives in Paris and is Welsh-speaking. This was one of the things I wanted to get right because there are some quite intimate scenes, and I wanted the person behind the lens to be female. It’s Leisa’s first film, and it’s Eira’s first film as a DOP. That connection was core to the success of the film.””

You can read the full THR article about Welsh language films at GFF here.