2026 Student Award

Dirty Parrots

Dirty Parrots is an experimental documentary in which filmmaker Siân A. Williams collaborates with performance artist E.M. Parry to explore landscape, trans identity, memory, and performance. Blending documentary interview with improvised performance, the film reclaims rural landscape through critical fabulation, honouring queer working-class histories of resistance at Cornwall's Poldice Mine.

DIRECTOR:

Siân A. Williams

RELEASE YEAR:

2026

UK, 13 mins

Director’s bio 

Siân A. Williams (they/them) is a filmmaker, archivist, and NWCDTP-funded PhD researcher exploring queer archives through experimental documentary. Their practice reimagines rural and gender-nonconforming histories using audiovisual archives. They co-directed the Scottish BAFTA-nominated, Iris Prize-winning documentary Rebel Dykes (2021) and have worked with Queer Britain on national oral history projects. 

Mae Dirty Parrots yn ffilm ddogfen arbrofol lle mae’r gwneuthurwr ffilmiau Siân A. Williams yn cydweithio â’r artist perfformio E.M. Parry i archwilio tirwedd, hunaniaeth drawsryweddol, cof a pherfformiad. Gan gyfuno cyfweliad dogfennol â pherfformiad byrfyfyr, mae’r ffilm yn adennill tirwedd wledig trwy ffuglennu beirniadol, gan anrhydeddu hanesion o wrthwynebiad dosbarth gweithiol cwiar ym Mwynglawdd Poldice yng Nghernyw. 

Bywgraffiad y cyfarwyddwr 

Mae Siân A. Williams (nhw/nhw) yn wneuthurwr ffilmiau, archifydd, ac ymchwilydd PhD a ariennir gan NWCDTP sy’n archwilio archifau cwiar trwy raglenni dogfen arbrofol. Mae eu hymarfer yn ailddychmygu hanesion gwledig ac anghydffurfiol o ran rhywedd gan ddefnyddio archifau clyweledol. Fe wnaethant gyd-gyfarwyddo’r rhaglen ddogfen Rebel Dykes (2021) o’r Alban, a enwebwyd am BAFTA ac a enillodd wobr yng Ngŵyl Gwobr Iris, ac maent wedi gweithio gyda Queer Britain ar brosiectau hanes llafar cenedlaethol. 

2026 Student Award Shortlist