Rhowan Alleyne has been part of Maynard Abercych since collaborating on the Maynard, Come Home… micro-festival in 2013. Since then she has continued to develop her creative practice as a producer, curator and community artist.
Her work has a strong focus on bringing people together, and often engages with environmental themes. She set up and continues to lead a groundbreaking animation project for young people and adults with learning disabilities in rural west Wales, which tackles social isolation through sustaining a creative community of common interests. She co-curated Maynard Abercych’s Bodies in Land Film Festival (2014), the Family Dances Festival in (2015) .
In 2021 she set up EcoSinema, a new green initiative of WOW Film Festival, an organisation that she has worked with as a creative freelancer for 10 years.
She is currently the lead on a British Council International Collaboration project which has themes of women and climate change and is commissioning 4 young and emerging filmmakers from Wales and Bangladesh to make short films. 3 of these films address the more than human world, and two of them expose people’s relationship to rivers.
