‘Desert Padre – In Search of Gareth Hughes’ wins major film award
November 12th, 2008The film documentary ‘Desert Padre – In Search of Gareth Hughes’ made by Burry Port resident Kelvin Guy has won a major International Film Award.
The film won Best Documentary – UK, at the recent International Film Festival South Africa.
The film traces the long journey of Kelvin Guy in tracking down still living individuals who remembered his relation, Gareth Hughes – Wales’ very first Hollywood Movie star.
Three years in the making and capturing interviews with surviving Native Americans and discovering lost relations in the United States, the film is both a personal memoir and an important historic document.
See link for all winners:
http://www.amritsa.com/eiff/08/winners.htm
The Jury, were impressed by the huge research undertaken by Mr. Guy and the fact he had never previously made a film.
‘This film is an outstanding achievement and an important piece of work’.
In November a plaque commissioned by Mr. Guy to mark the birthplace of Gareth Hughes will be unveiled in Llanelli.
To finds out more about this remarkable film go to:
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December 14th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Extraordinary that a film which is unavailable elsewhere can win an award. I have researched the life of Gareth Hughes for nineteen years compared to Mr Guys three and from what little I have seen of this film on Mr Guy’s web site it contains a number of errors which he has consistently published. As an example he keeps claiming that James Barrie, Bette Davies and Doug Fairbanks were “close” friends of Gareth, which is quite untrue. The film even mentions Douglas Fairbanks junior yet shows a photo of his father. Mr Guy is consistently falling into the trap of believing the myth and not doing adequate homework. As far as the plaque is concerned, I raised the money and unveiled a plaque to Gareth’s memory, with his niece, in August 2000 in Parc Howard Museum Llanelli, where I maintain a display cabinet containing information about him and memorabilia. I do hope that Llanelli is not going to try to place a plaque on the house where Gareth was born because it doesn’t exist any more!