{"id":33533,"date":"2018-10-26T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=33533"},"modified":"2018-10-26T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:17:24","slug":"cardiff-international-film-festival-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/cardiff-international-film-festival-2018","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff International Film Festival 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cardiff&#8217;s annual film festival took place last weekend. Is this an indicator of Cardiff&#8217;s growing status as a centre of diversity?<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33674\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/View-of-bay-2-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33674\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/View-of-bay-2-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The Cardiff International Film Festival 2018, in its second year of existence, ran from the\u00a019th\u00a0to the\u00a021st September. It is\u00a0a symbol of Cardiff\u2019s growing status as a hub of internationalism and filmmaking. The event was hosted at the historic Pierhead building at Cardiff Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The festival consisted of a sequence of short films screenings, free for the public to attend. There was a great variety of styles and artistic sensibilities, and while most of the pieces seemed to be in live action, there were some animated films as well. The public was free to drift in and out of the screening room at their own convenience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33686\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33686\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Screening-Room-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33686\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Screening-Room-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> The screening room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening is the film industry in Cardiff and Wales is booming now. We want for the rest of the world to notice us so we\u2019ve opened up the Cardiff International Film Festival to celebrate diversity,\u201d says Ewa Ladkowska, an event volunteer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33735\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33735\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Event-volunteer-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Event-volunteer-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Event-volunteer-2-1-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33735\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Event-volunteer-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Event-volunteer-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/Event-volunteer-2-1-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript> Event volunteer Ewa Ladkowska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the surrounding rooms and upstairs one could also visit the regular exhibitions of the Pierhead building.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33783\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33783\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/FF-statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/FF-statue.jpg 396w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/FF-statue-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33783\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/FF-statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/FF-statue.jpg 396w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/10\/FF-statue-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/noscript> Symbol of the Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Cardiff&#8217;s annual film festival an indicator of it&#8217;s growing status as a centre of diversity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":33674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-33533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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