ROLAND DENNING -
LIGHTING CAMERAMAN/DOCUMENTARY CAMERAMAN
CREDIT LIST :
ARTS PROGRAMMES
DANCE FOR THE CAMERA/RESISTOR(metamedia/Arts Council/BBC 2)
Dance short for the BBC2 Dance For The Camera series (Super 16mm)
Lightingcameraman + Producer
DONUT (Intermedia/C4)
Short for C4's "SlotArt
TEENAGE KICKS (BBC Northern Ireland/Perfect Cousin)
Documentary on the Undertones
RODDY BUCHANAN'S "OUT" (Dundee Contemporary Arts)
35mm short for Beck Prize winning Scottish Artist
CURLEW RIVER (BBC Wales)
Television production of Benjamin Brittern opera
DANCE FOR THE CAMERA/MAN ACT (Dancelines/Arts Council/BBC 2)
Interfilm Prize Oberhausen 1996
DANCE FOR THE CAMERA/NEVER SAY DIE (Dancelines/Arts Council/BBC 2)
Two dance shorts for the BBC2 Dance For The Camera series (Super 16mm)
SOUND ON FILM /GIFT (metamedia/Arts Council /BBC2-Super 16mm - 15 mins) (Lighting cameraman/producer)
Music based film for the BBC2 Sound On Film series shot in Eastern Germany
EXPANDING PICTURES - WARREN BEATTY'S COAT
Euphoria/BBC2/Arts Council - 16mm - 5 mins
Peformance art film featuring Station House Opera
T.V.BALLADS - Dir. Richard Pawelko
BBC Wales for BBC 2 Beta SP - 5 x 30 min
A five part series on contemporary acoustic music & poetry
Awarded Best Music Programme BAFTA Cymru 1995
SWAN LAKE - Dir. Peter Mumford
Thermal Pant/BBC 2-Digital Betacam - 90 mins
Television version of Adventures In Motion Pictures’ Swan Lake
HEDYDD YN YR HAUL (THE GANDER AND THE LARK )- Dir. Geraint Jarman
Beta SP - 40 mins - Bont Films/S4C - An operatic drama fantasy based on a contemporary poem
Nominated for Best Factual Camera, BAFTA Cymru 1995
DRAMAS & DRAMA DOCUMENTARIES
NOTHING TO DO WITH ME (inter-logics) - (Director/Writer/DoP - Roland Denning) 7mins
Short comedy about MRSA for the NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement
STILL WAITING FOR AN ANSWER- (inter-logics)(Director/Writer/DoP - Roland Denning) 22 mins
Drama documentary about the Parental Mental Health Service
ONE DAU TROIS (Teliesyn/Hijack) 20 mins- Dir. Gilly Booth
35mm experimental drama short
A PASSIONATE EXILE (S4C/Bracan)
Drama on the painter Gwyn Jones
THE BEACH INSPECTOR - Dir. Geoff Moore
Teliesyn/HTV -Digital Betacam -28mins -Drama short starring Glyn Houston
MINE STRIKE (COI)
Drama for training personnel to deal with land mines
SAS -THE SOLDIERS’ STORY (Episode 1)- Dir.. Andrew Piddington
Goldhawk Films/Carlton - Super 16mm - 50 mins
MARY SHELLEY (Writing On The Line No.1 ) - Dir. Michele Ryan
16mm-50 Min- Teliesyn/C4 - Dramatised documentary of the life of the author of Frankenstein
HEAVY BREATHERS- Dir. Stuart Clarke
Teliesyn/BBC Wales - 16mm -30 min - Dramatised documentary on nuisance phone calls
MILENA JESENKA (Writing On The Line No.4 )- Dir.-Michele Ryan
16mm-50min-Teliesysn/C4 - Story of Kafka’s translator & mistress
IN THE LAND OF THE GENTLE
Betacam SP -50 min - Boda/S4C -Christmas drama based on the nativity story
CRACKING UP -Sylvia Pankhurst- Dir.-Michele Ryan
16mm-50 min- Teliesyn/C4- Dramtised documentaries of the life of Sylvia Pankhurst
CRACKING UP - Mary Wollstonecraft- Dir.-Sue Crockford
16mm-50 min- Teliesyn/C4- Dramtised documentaries of the life of the early feminist
TOILI PARCMELYN - Dir.- Richard Watkins
16mm-30min-Cineclair/S4C-Period ghost story
MOC - Dir.- Richard Watkins
16mm -30 min -Cineclair/S4C- Period comedy drama
I WAS BORN IN RHYMNEY - Dir.-Michele Ryan
16mm-50min-Teliesyn/HTV- Story of the life Welsh poet Idris Davies
THE CHARTIST UPRISING- Dir.-Colin Thomas
Beta SP-50min-Teliesyn/S4C- Dramatised documentary on the Chartist uprising in Newport
CRIME PAYS - Dir.-Chris Monger
16mm-90 min-Threadcross/C4/S4C- Feature drama on a runaway taxi driver
OED YR ADDEWID (HOMING) - Dir.-Marc Evans
16mm-50 min- Red Rooster/S4C - Contemporary drama
BOIO - Dir. Richard Watkins
16mm-40 min - Cineclair/S4C -Period drama comedy
HOMING - Dir. Mike Stubbs
Super 16mm/35mm- 11 min - MetaMedia/BFI/ Yorkshire Arts
- Experimental documentary on a pigeon racer
(Lighting cameraman and writer) London Film Festival 1994, Oberhausen 1995, First Prize Graz 1996
VOICE OVER - Dir.- Chris Monger
16mm - 110 min - Welsh Arts Council/Chris Monger - Drama feature
REPEATER - Dir. Chris Monger
16mm - 90 min - Welsh Arts Council/Chris Monger - Experimental feature
THE PRESIDENT
16mm-40 min- Cineclair/S4C- Comedy drama
THE PEOPLE SHOW IN STARWASHED - Dir.- Chris Monger
16mm-50 min-Threadcross/C4 - Comedy with experimental theatre company
JOHNNY BE GOOD - Dir. - Marc Evans
16mm-30 min- Welsh Arts Council - Fifties comedy drama
DEBASED - Dir. Tim Thornicroft
16mm - 75 min - Welsh Arts Council - Experimental comedy drama
NAT PINKERTON - Dir. Ian Walker
16mm - 20 min - Welsh Arts Council - Drama based on Magritte script
TAXI - Dir. Mali Evans
16mm - 25 mins - Welsh Arts Council - Drama study of Bulimia Nervosa
CONTORTIONS - Dir. Mike Stubbs
16mm - 25 mins - Welsh Arts Council - Experimental drama on unemployment
WALTER EGO - Dir.- Tim Thornicroft
Super 8mm -30 mins - Welsh Arts Council - Experimental comedy drama
DOCUMENTARIES AND T.V. COMMERCIALS
ALISON & SUE (inter-logics) Director & Cameraman. 8 mins.
Short documentary about hospital associated infections for the NHS
CENSUS (C.O.I) 45 secs/10mins/20 mins
T.V. commercial and short to promote the census
WIGGLESWORTH CONDUCTS
BBC Wales for BBC 2 Beta SP - 6 x 30 min
A six part series on Mark Wigglesworth, leader of National Orchestra of Wales
DICK FRANCIS (BBC Wales)
Profile on the writer for the series Close-Up
HOMES ZONES (Heads Together)
Docuemnentary on traffic issues in Holland and Germany
SPACE TOURISM (Wild Dream Films)
Documentary featuring Buzz Aldrin and Richard Branson
CLASSIC TRAINS (The Express Train)- Dir. James Castle
Uden Associates/C4 -Super 16mm
HAIR'S ELVIS/Strattons
35mm - 45 seconds - Cinema commercial featuring Elvis Presley impersonator
A GENERATION ARISES - Dir. Stuart Clarke
Teliesyn/BBC Wales- Beta SP/Super 16mm -30 min
A documentary with dramatised sequences on three young theatre writers
BULLYING
COI - 16mm - 45 se & 30 secc - Television commercial for government anti-bullying campaign
GWALIA IN KHASIA - Dir. Michele Ryan
Teliesyn/S4C - Super 16mm - 3 x 30 min/1 x 50min
Documentary series on the influence of the Welsh on the Khasia people of North East India
THE BURN
Zip/HTV - Beta SP - 30 min. Documentary on a young motorbike racer
RAGE AND DESIRE -Dir.-Ruppert Gabriel
16mm-15 min-Zone/Arts Council - Study of Nigerian photographer Rotimi Faya-Kayode
MAGIC WEBB - Dir.Michele Ryan
Betacam SP -50 min- Teliesyn/HTV Wales-Drama doc on poet Harri Webb
ASIA PACIFIC
C.O.I.-16mm - Trade promotion film shot in Indonesia, Thailand, Korea & Taiwan.
HAMPTON COURT RESTORATION
COI - 16mm - Film of the restoration of Hampton Court Palace after the fire
THE ROYAL MINT - A HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE -
COI-BetaSP-15 mins- Promo for The Royal Mint
SIAN PHILIPS - ACTRESS
Cineclair/S4C-16mm-50 min - Documentary on the Welsh actress
DENNIS O’NEIL - TENOR
Cineclair/S4C-30 min - Documentary on opera singer
BLANAE ROCK
HTV -16mm- 30 mins - Documentary on Welsh slate town
NEW YORK
Cineclair/S4C- 16mm -30 mins -Documentary on the city at night
DIWEDD CANU, DIWEDD CANMOL
Cineclair/S4C- 16mm -30 min - Documentary on Welsh chapel community
THE MABINOGI - Dir.- Chris Monger
16mm- 120 min- Threadcross/C4/S4C - Film of live performance of Welsh legends
ROCK PROMOS :
TO BLIND TO SEE IT - Kim Syms /SOMEBODY- Higher Ground/SHELTER ME - Circuit
A MESSAGE TO YOUR HEART - Samantha Janus/GONNA CATCH YOU - Lonnie Gordon-
(Leighton Films - Dir. Trevor Leighton) / BODY BURN - Cubanate
+ Many rock videos for DIFA and VIDEO 9 and 6 (Welsh rock music programmes - Criw Byw/S4C)WHOSE HEART IS IT ANYWAY -Danny McColl -Leighton Films / NORTHERN GIRL - Skin Lagoon John Dower/Big Life /TELEPHONE THING- The Fall- Beagle Park Prod + many rock videos for FFIDEO 9 (S4C Rock music series - Criw Byw/S4C
HARD & HEAVY- Directors International (sell-through video magazine for heavy metal fans)
DANCE TILL YOU DROP (series of 8 short dance films as part of C4’s CLUB-X)