{"id":15268,"date":"2012-12-04T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=15268"},"modified":"2012-12-04T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T13:23:32","slug":"penarth-film-makers-la-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/12\/04\/penarth-film-makers-la-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Penarth film-maker&#8217;s LA success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15520\" title=\"medeni edit\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15520\" title=\"medeni edit\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/12\/medeni-edit-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Medeni grew up in Penarth but is now pursuing her film career in Los Angeles.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Penarth film-maker who now lives in Los Angeles has recently received great interest in her projects.<\/p>\n<p>Medeni Griffiths, 28, who has previously had a film screened in The White House has now seen her award-winning short film <em>Summit<\/em> shown at the New York Film Society as part of the New Films\/New Directors Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Although she grew up in Penarth, Medeni has been living in LA for five years and has recently worked with Fox Searchlight Pictures &#8211; the film company behind Slumdog Millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Medeni said, \u201cIt&#8217;s great to receive recognition and begin to build relationships with like-minded filmmakers.\u00a0 For me, the best thing about working in LA has been those opportunities to meet people who I see myself working with throughout my career.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0[vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/37639985[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Penarth film-maker who now lives in Los Angeles has recently received great interest in her projects. Medeni Griffiths, 28, who has previously had a film screened in The White House has now seen her award-winning short film Summit shown at the New York Film Society as part of the New Films\/New Directors Festival. Although she grew up in Penarth, Medeni has been living in LA for five years and has recently worked with Fox Searchlight Pictures &#8211; the film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":15504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Penarth film-maker&#039;s LA success - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/12\/04\/penarth-film-makers-la-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penarth film-maker&#039;s LA success - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Penarth film-maker who now lives in Los Angeles has recently received great interest in her projects. 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