Karl Francis is a Welsh film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He studied at Manchester University and then attended Hornsey College of Art in London to study for a post-graduate diploma on Film in Education. He was appointed the Head of Drama at BBC Wales in 1995.
Total trailers found: 21
21 February 1993
For a young couple, the small cottage tucked away in a quiet village in the mountains of north Wales, a legacy from a distant, estranged uncle, is a dream come true.
30 January 1987
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators.
05 March 1992
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn.
07 June 2002
Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
31 July 1991
Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff.
10 March 1991
A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent.
15 September 2008
After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
17 September 1989
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase.
01 January 1989
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old woman.
25 November 1995
The rough urban life in a Welsh valley that focuses on Jo, a single mother who has just become pregnant by her married boyfriend Kevin.
01 April 2015
Teaming up with director Karl Francis, Dafydd Hywel speaks to some of the coal miners and their wives who played a huge part in the Miners' Strike of 1984-5, and their descendants, who have inherited a Wales without coal mines.
01 January 1988
The story of two young women, Donna Edwards and Mary Katherine Jones, who aspire for careers in the theatre business.
11 June 1977
Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his family home.
01 January 1996
A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome.
19 March 1980
Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war.
01 January 2007
A film about teenagers struggling to rebuild their damaged lives at a "reform" academy on the South Wales coast near Cardiff.
10 July 1985
Portrait of a community in the heart of South Wales almost one year into the miners' strike of the 1980s.
08 June 1971
The story was inspired by the stay-down strikers in the 1930s who refused to leave the mines for three weeks.
19 November 1984
A stark drama about one man's struggle with alcoholism and the impact this has on his family, friends, and work.
01 November 1982
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
04 October 1981
Portrait of a fractious Welsh village near Merthyr Tydfil. Life in the valley isn't what it was, there's no pit in Deri now, but the humour survives, and it's amazingly peaceful considering.
