Karl Francis

Karl Francis was born in 1943 in Bedwas, in a mining valley of south Wales, the son of a miner, and worked underground before joining public television. He made documentaries and then fiction films on the same subjects: closing mines, strikes, the Welsh language, Northern Ireland, and made women the centre of three films shot in the same valley over twenty years. He headed Welsh production at the public channel for a few years. He is the only filmmaker in the country to have built a sustained body of work.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaAbove Us the EarthKarl Francis · 1977Cinema