Paul Turner

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Paul Turner

Communications

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#12631

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Why Is Paul Turner Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Paul Turner was a Welsh film director. His film Hedd Wyn became the first Welsh film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Born in Devon, Turner learned Welsh while working at the BBC in the early 1980s and was a vocal supporter of Plaid Cymru. He was reportedly "blacklisted" from the BBC for his nationalist views . S4C director called him "a man with vision and a fire in his heart for all things Welsh and the Welsh language and his desire to portray that on film".

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