As part of our “Filmmaker’s Corner” interview series on Instagram, we have interviewed Zillah Bowes, director of short feature Staying, awarded at Emerging Filmmakers Night, and presented in official competition at the 2021 Palm Springs International ShortFest.
In Staying (Aros Mae), a woman from the city has a brief but life-changing connection with a hill farmer and the landscape in remote mid-Wales. Directed by Zillah Bowes, the film won the Audience Favourite Award at the 2021 Spring Edition of Emerging Filmmakers Night, as well as the Grand Jury Prize from Premiers Plans d’Angers Film Festival. As we speak, the film is about to be presented as an official selection of the 2021 Palm Springs International ShortFest.
Zillah Bowes is a Welsh/English writer, director and photographer. She trained at the NFTS and has made films as a director and cinematographer, which have been shown worldwide. She won a John Brabourne Award from the Film and TV Charity in 2020. Her debut Small Protests was nominated for a Grierson Award and won the Current Short Cuts Vimeo Award and Best Short Documentary at the London Independent Film Festival. As a cinematographer, her feature films include Enemies of Happiness, which won the World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.
