Love Struck has been selected for three festivals in September and October 2012. The Auburn International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults in Sydney Australia in September 2012, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin in October 2012 and it has also been nominated for the Short Film Category at the Screen Stockport Film Festival October 2012.

Love Struck is a short film written by Ali Blodwen Jones, directed by Leyla Pope and produced by Lisa Edwards which was broadcast on BBC 2 Wales on 22nd November 2011. It is a love story based on an ancient Welsh folktale. It was made as part of the It’s My Shout Productions Television Training scheme for 2011, a project that selects young, emerging talent from across Wales to produce 6 short films in association with BBC Wales. Each Autumn the films are broadcasts under the series title “Made in Wales”.

Love Struck is a short film written by Ali Blodwen Jones. The story was inspired by an ancient Welsh folk tale about a beautiful lady who emerges from a lake – the story of Lyn y Fan Fach. Having grown up with the deep rooted love of all things scripts and storytelling heavy in her heart it took the announcement of a search for short film scripts for Ali Blodwen Jones to finally put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard in this case) and bring to life a long forgotten story from her childhood.

Swapping a lake for a playground, a shepherd for an introverted Glyn, a lady of the lake for an enchanting beauty and dialogue for a plethora of rhyming couplets, ‘Love Struck’ has finally been brought screaming into the present day to enchant another generation all over again.
Since studying film and television at university in 2006 Blod has worked on a wealth of Cardiff based television shows as an assistant director including ‘Torchwood’, ‘Dr Who’, ‘Sarah Jane Adventures’ and ‘Merlin’ to name but a few. A future is now slowly forming in scripts and standup comedy for Blod and a happy grin on her face.