Lee Walters will function Wales‘ BAFTA Cymru chair, it has been unveiled on Monday.
Walters, who since 2023 has been the CEO of Ffilm Cymru Wales, the event company for Welsh movie, succeeds BAFTA Cymru Award-winning presenter Angharad Mair after 9 years within the position.
BAFTA Cymru was established over 35 years in the past to help, rejoice and nurture artistic expertise in Wales.
As chair, Lee leads the BAFTA Cymru committee, which helps steer their work supporting the movie, video games and tv industries in Wales by way of its annual BAFTA Cymru Awards and programme of actions.
The committee additionally oversees the distribution of Prince William BAFTA bursaries. Walters was co-opted to the BAFTA Cymru committee in April 2023.
Previous to his time at Ffilm Cymru Wales, he loved a various 15-year profession on the BBC culminating in a communications-focused position as senior change supervisor establishing BBC Wales’ new headquarters within the heart of Cardiff.
“I really feel massively privileged to be succeeding Angharad Mair as Chair of BAFTA Cymru,” Walters mentioned. “All through her tenure, Angharad has been an actual champion for the business and the expertise we’ve got right here in Wales, and I sit up for persevering with that mission. Wales is a nation of pure storytellers, wealthy in language and tradition, and I really feel passionately in regards to the constructive position that BAFTA can play in celebrating that excellence and nurturing a brand new technology prepared to inform our tales to the world.”