Quick Facts
Biography
Ieuan Morris is a scriptwriter, film director and academic based in Cardiff, South Wales.
Ieuan Morris has over 30 years experience writing and directing for film and television. As a graduate of St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art, Ieuan’s work (on sexuality and politics, based upon ideas of and produced/directed jointly with Ron Moule) was shown in art galleries in New York City, Montreal and the ICA, London and led to joint commissions for programmes on Channel Four, including work developing new LGBT filmmakers. Since then he has produced and directed music videos and documentaries for Channel 4, BBC 2 Wales and S4C
His filmmaking career involved the writing and directed of a number of innovative and award-winning short films. In 1999, Meanwhile (15mins, 35mm) was nominated for the DM Davies Award at the International Film Festival of Wales, nominated Best Short Film at BAFTA Wales and Best Short Film at the International Crime and Mystery Festival, Courmayeur, Italy.
In 2003 Ieuan wrote and directed Textual @traction, which won Best New Media Interactive Award at the Celtic Film Festival and the Welsh Development Agency Focus on Interactive Best Innovation Award. The film, which premiered at the International Festival of New Film in Split, Croatia, was also nominated for a BAFTA UK Interactive Award. Following a world-wide tour of international festivals including the Academy-listed Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the film was given a global television first for an interactive film, when it was broadcast on S4C in January 2006, under its Welsh title Caru T x.
In 2008, Ieuan’s second interactive film Watch Me, which used video messaging as part of the film’s format,was nominated Best Short Film at the BAFTA Cymru Awards and the Celtic Media Festival. It made the official selection for Strasbourg International Film Festival where it was nominated Best Short Screenplay. It was also in the Official Selection for the Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival.
Alongside his writing and directing work, Ieuan was, until 2014, Reader in Film in Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of South Wales, Cardiff. He specialised in screenwriting and directing as well as in the study of European and avant-garde cinema.
Since 2014, Ieuan has returned to full time art practice. Two of his photographs were awarded Honourable Mentions in the Professional Fine Art and Portrait sections of the International Monochrome Awards 2105, whilst four photographs from the Brand New Relics series were reproduced in the November 2015 issue of Black + White Photography Magazine.