Lal ಲಾಲ್ लाल Lal Davies Film-Maker/Gwneuthurwr Ffilm (She/Her Hi) Wordpress:https://wordpress.com/view/laldaviesma.wordpress.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/laldffilmiau/


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Lal Davies is an award-winning filmmaker with South Indian and Southern Irish heritages. Three generations of her Indian family have been born in North Wales since coming to the UK in 1919. Lal has an established practice of first-person narrative and short documentary filmmaking in social justice; racial equity; education and heritage contexts and an emerging practice of a multi-disciplinary art practice using film, photography and poetry distinctly and at the blurred edges where they meet.

From May 2024 until Spring/Summer 2025 Lal is a commissioned Artist Film-Maker for Perspective (s) at National Waterfront Museum Swansea working with GS Artists Swansea. This project responds to the commitments made in the Widening Engagement Action Plan, jointly published by Amgueddfa Cymru and Arts Council of Wales in February 2022. It has received support from Welsh Government as part of its commitment to deliver on the goals in the Anti-Racist Wales. Lal has worked to decolonise some of the narratives around Wales’s legacies as the first industrial nation. Lal’s body of work Several Stages of Purification/Sawl Cam o Buro/Buredigaeth will be shown at the museum from January – August 2025. Lal also produced Codi’r Caead/Lifting the Lid a short documentary to contextualise the work with a cohort of contemporaries also involved in decolonial work.

In 2025/26 Lal is a selected poet for Menywod Chronig/Chronic Women an anthology of poetry published by Honno and Literature Wales.

Also in 2024 Lal exhibited artist-moving image work Transhumance as part of Elsewhere and poem Exile and Return as part of 100 Poets at Ruthin International Arts Festival . She also facilitated A Sense of Place film-making workshop for Cultivate at Sidney Nolan Trust, teaching young people the skills of hearing the lived experiences of Ukrainian and Hungarian women recently arrived in the UK.

Lal also shot for Atebol/Social Care Wales/Menter A and made films in Ladakh and South India.

Lal was one of 25 artists in group show One Nation Under A Groove at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation London.

Film Screenings in 2024 included:

Pobl Fel Ni/People Like Us - numerous screenings across North Wales; Transhumance as part of Elsewhere Ruthin International Arts Festival; A Sense of Place film-making workshop/screening for Cultivate at Sidney Nolan Trust; Transhumance as part of One Nation Under A Groove The Bomb Factory London.

In 2024/2023, Lal Davies was Film-Maker/Director on Pobl Fel Ni/People Like Us film short series for NWREN/Welsh Government Anti-Racist Action Plan; Honorary Research Fellow for Amgueddfa Cymru looking at Wales’s role in the British Empire;  Film-Maker for Shambala Meditation Centre Ladakh; Writer/Consultant for Brethyn Cymru and in April 2024 received an EMWWAA awarded in 2023 for her contributions to Arts and Culture in Wales, from Jane Hutt MS/Chief Whip. Via Brethyn Cymru, Lal’s award-winning documentary Buckra Massa Pickney - Life of Enrico Stennett Windrush Elder (Best Unrestricted Short - The Gogs International Film Festival) is available to all school students and staff in Wales as an educational resource May 2024 onwards.