Endaf Emlyn

Directing

Endaf Emlyn

Born

1944-07-31 (82)

Place of birth

Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Endaf Emlyn is a Welsh musician, film, and television director. Emlyn was born in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales. He was brought up in Pwllheli and played violin in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales alongside Karl Jenkins and John Cale. Emlyn trained initially as a teacher but shortly decided to pursue a career in the media instead. Upon the founding of Harlech Television in May 1968, he became one of the franchise's first four announcers as host of the quiz show Up to Date. He also worked as a script-writer, but had a simultaneous career as a musician. He began his television career as a scriptwriter and publisher with HTV, and then a presenter on some of the first Welsh language pop …

Known for

The Storms of August poster
NR

Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.

The Storms of August

1988

No artwork available
NR

Sera and her little sister Carys come to the city to look for work. Sam Crosby, an odd man, offers them work and accommodation and soon they are in the grip of very dangerous men. Who is Sam? What is Mordecai's plan? And the biggest question of all - will there be Christmas this year?

The Man Who Stole Christmas

1985

No artwork available
5.5

Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forward in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be.

A Relative Stranger

1996

No artwork available
NR

A quirky, TV quasi-Western set in Patagonia.

Gaucho

1983

One Full Moon poster
7.5

After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…

One Full Moon

1991

Leaving Lenin poster
4.7

Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscovery.

Leaving Lenin

1994

Behind the camera

The Storms of August poster
NR

Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.

The Storms of August

1988

The Storms of August poster
NR

Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.

The Storms of August

1988

No artwork available
NR

Sera and her little sister Carys come to the city to look for work. Sam Crosby, an odd man, offers them work and accommodation and soon they are in the grip of very dangerous men. Who is Sam? What is Mordecai's plan? And the biggest question of all - will there be Christmas this year?

The Man Who Stole Christmas

1985

No artwork available
NR

Sera and her little sister Carys come to the city to look for work. Sam Crosby, an odd man, offers them work and accommodation and soon they are in the grip of very dangerous men. Who is Sam? What is Mordecai's plan? And the biggest question of all - will there be Christmas this year?

The Man Who Stole Christmas

1985

No artwork available
5.5

Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forward in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be.

A Relative Stranger

1996

No artwork available
NR

A quirky, TV quasi-Western set in Patagonia.

Gaucho

1983

One Full Moon poster
7.5

After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…

One Full Moon

1991

One Full Moon poster
7.5

After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…

One Full Moon

1991

Leaving Lenin poster
4.7

Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscovery.

Leaving Lenin

1994

Leaving Lenin poster
4.7

Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscovery.

Leaving Lenin

1994

No artwork available
7.0

Shot entirely in Welsh, Endaf Emlyn's wry and gentle film captures the magic and innocence of a young boy's imaginative world as he grapples with demons that haunt his family life. Set against the wild, windswept backdrop of the Welsh coast, The Making of Maps charts Griff's journey into adolescence and his attempts to cope with the strife with in his own family. Pulled in different directions by his philandering father, reclusive mother and unloved sister, he tries to learn the secret that eats away at the fabric of his family life. His mother ran a dance academy, but during a picnic the school's star pupil, the beautiful, ethereal Alis, vanished. Afterward, Griff's mother took to her bed, fearful of leaving her darkened room. Griff's way of dealing with his life is to draw maps outlining his own attempts to comprehend a situation that everyone seems to want to forget. -Piers Handling

The Making of Maps

1995

No artwork available
7.0

Shot entirely in Welsh, Endaf Emlyn's wry and gentle film captures the magic and innocence of a young boy's imaginative world as he grapples with demons that haunt his family life. Set against the wild, windswept backdrop of the Welsh coast, The Making of Maps charts Griff's journey into adolescence and his attempts to cope with the strife with in his own family. Pulled in different directions by his philandering father, reclusive mother and unloved sister, he tries to learn the secret that eats away at the fabric of his family life. His mother ran a dance academy, but during a picnic the school's star pupil, the beautiful, ethereal Alis, vanished. Afterward, Griff's mother took to her bed, fearful of leaving her darkened room. Griff's way of dealing with his life is to draw maps outlining his own attempts to comprehend a situation that everyone seems to want to forget. -Piers Handling

The Making of Maps

1995

The Clock poster
NR

A film about a twelve-year-old girl who has the opportunity to go back in time with the help of the family's big old clock.

The Clock

1986

The Clock poster
NR

A film about a twelve-year-old girl who has the opportunity to go back in time with the help of the family's big old clock.

The Clock

1986