James

@jimbertmorris

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Have a fresh 60 sample of Splonk 🧡 Our 2026 Comedy Reel for the new Welsh Indie Production Company based in Brecon! @splonkcomedy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A decades worth of friendship, films funded by fun and some sneak peaks at recent commissions. Featuring films, ads & TV pilots about 💩🐑🦆🕰️🚙👽🦖👵🐟👶🤵🏻‍♂️🫦🧟‍♀️ With our background in DIY indie shorts and commercials we’ve now had a year entering the TV world (with 2 comedy pilot deliveries to @bbccymruwales & @s4c already)…with our eyes set on a series, oh and a feature 👀 Dreaming big but not waiting for permission and doing it anyway. And as always, taking not taking ourselves seriously, really seriously. Reel features the comedic talents of: @alisontheaskot @xander.armstrong @maliharriesdirector @steffanevanscomedy @annathommy @thewaittinator @maliannrees @osian.hw.morgan @torilyons1 @emma_stacey_ @basicbish95 @arranfear @rileymadincea @nataliemartinsactress @christopherpeglerlambert (and of course a bit of @jamesbuttonfilms ) Edit, music & Splonk silliness by @jamesbuttonfilms @oscargarth @paulmarke @jimbertmorris And frequent collaborative talents of @phoebeferndesigns @jaynehyman @alunrhysmorgan @elliebaldwinfx @morganleyshonfx @mattwelfare @lewis.townley4 @tomgripper @ioanharri and sooo many more! Enjoy a taster of our silliness and Follow @splonkcomedy for some extra silly stuff…coming surprisingly soon! 🧡
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5 days ago
Go on then! Quick festival screening roundup for two shorts from @splonkcomedy 1year on and still bugga going 🩳 🐑 1 IN 5 SHEEP 🐑 This is a biggie… -1 of 10 shorts shortlisted for @picturehouses Create competition, screening at the one and only @picturehousecentral on Saturday 18th in London. A dream cinema ticked off the list! -Screened at @ffilmcymruwales supported @adracymru at the @riverfrontarts last week…at an aptly arty showcase of contemporary art films 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 -Nominated for 5 awards inc Best UK Short at the @bifa_film recognised @sundshortsfilm where Quackening premiered last year! Thanks @chrisjallan 🍻 🦆 THE QUACKENING 🦆 -Official selection at the @baftacymru recognised @focuswales @focuswalesfilm in Wrexham, where Sheep premiered last year! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 -8 award nominations at @indiefilmfests member @wtonfilmfest inc. Best Actor, Best Film & Best Director! Cheers @arunkapur0303 🙌 We are scared of the car parks there tho after getting locked in last time… -Selected to screen up north in the suitable mad @peopleversustv Fringe Flicks screening in May! -Offered a trip to Italy by the lovely folk at @bref_shortfilmfestival - so tempted… 🍕 -Apparently went down a treat in a Seattle cinema last week at @bonebatshow 🦇 Lots of lovely messages! -Oh and won another award for Horror Comedy from the very generous @thefunnylifefilmfestival in London 🏆 -also shout out to @gregthegodfathersmith for screening it at a comedy night in Newport @portscreenpresents 🧡 Then @oscargarth and I had a bugga lovely time talking about our aaaaart like artholes at the @bafta recognised @mcrfilmfestival last month! Doubling it up for planning for our feature script… More news on the premiere for our most recent shorts premieres…very soon! 🧡 Congrats to aaaaaall the crew (and cast aka just James 🙄)- let’s make some more? P.S. I thought this would reduce the number of festivals posts by cramming them into one… @madeinwales_ @screenalliancewales
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1 month ago
That’s a Splonkin’ wrap! Second comedy commission in the first year of our new indie production company @splonkcomedy 🧡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Can’t say too much yet but we had a blast bringing this mad one to life. Top tier Welsh cast including @osian.hw.morgan (Under Salt Marsh, Waterloo Road, Mr Burton) & @maliharriesdirector (Hinterland, Foyle’s War, The Way) …and a very special (double!) role for stand-up legend @steffanevanscomedy ⭐️ Yet another set build by @phoebeferndesigns at the Splonk HQ office in Brecon - featuring more prosthetic wizardry from @elliebaldwinfx & gonna be some monstrous VFX from @paulmarke 🙌 Always the best time making our fun things our fun way with fun friends old and new. Very happy to be bringing dir. @alunrhysmorgan ‘s (true?) story to life! Coming soon… 🫦 Cast: @osian.hw.morgan @steffanevanscomedy @maliharriesdirector @ellenjnelle @thegracedixon @cardiffchris @angharadparry Crew: @alunrhysmorgan @paulmarke @oscargarth @jamesbuttonfilms @jimbertmorris @phoebeferndesigns @elliebaldwinfx @creativeintimacy.with.laura @lewis.townley4 @tomgripper @ioanharri @andree_coster_reeves_mua @splonkcomedy Thank you all for absolutely smashing it 🙌 Couldn’t have gone better! Doing our thing just with the paperwork too. Bring on the next one… 🤞
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2 months ago
Thank you so much to the team at @liberationartgallery for going above and beyond to create a little cinema experience for 'Ghosts', popcorn included, of course! 🍿 This is the third time that I've been lucky enough to have work included in 'Beyond the Therapy Space', an exhibition of artwork by art therapists. I exhibited first as a trainee, and now, as a fully qualified art psychotherapist - it's been a lovely full circle moment, and I am so happy to have found this beautiful space in the heart of Brighton. 'Ghosts' is an ode to creative expression as a way to process experiences and emotions. It's a collaboration between myself, an art psychotherapist and painter, and @jimbertmorris , a music therapist and composer. For better or for worse we began working on this together almost immediately after meeting for the first time. 🤝 Let's get more cross-modality within the creative arts therapies! #expressivearts #animatedfilm #framebyframeanimation #artexhibition #creativetherapies
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3 months ago
Our baaaaaa-art keeps spreading. Delighted to be showcasing our most serious and experimental film ever at the BAFTA and BIFA recognised @mcrfilmfestival 🐑🎞️🗻This is a first for us at this festival, so very excited for sleepovers in a new place…always the best way to brainstorm the next wave of ideas ❤️ Cheers Manchester Film Festival 🐝 Directed & performed by @jamesbuttonfilms Shot on 16mm by @oscargarth Music by @jimbertmorris Costume by @amygarth Computer effects by @paulmarke Produced by @splonkcomedy
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3 months ago
Last night in Soho… A @curzoncinemas was actually the last UK cinema on my hitlist of dream cinemas I dreamed to screen at! And @splonkcomedy just did it for the @bafta & @bifa_film recognised super fancy @londonshortfilmfest 🐑 I even accidentally represented @morrisons with my bag of sheep costume and slippers (only freshly out of character of course). I haven’t seen anyone laugh at a bag for life as much as @paulmarke ❤️ We started shooting this very serious and not silly at all ARTy experimental short whilst on loliday in Scotland during @shortcomfilmfestival back in 2023- just 3 friends camping (unprepared) in the highlands- with some 16mm and some wool- so super bizarre to see it protected so grandly in a posh cinem like @curzon.soho . Now we have our second LSFF screening (The Quackening 🦆) on Friday night, representing the UK in Midnight Madness… See you there! 1 IN 5 SHEEP Directed & performed by @jamesbuttonfilms Shot on 16mm by @oscargarth Music by @jimbertmorris Costume by @amygarth Computer effects by @paulmarke Produced by @splonkcomedy (Who said because I’m a dad now I can’t still dress up…?)
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3 months ago
BIG news…x2! 🦆🐑 TWO films from @splonkcomedy are screening at the prestigious @bafta & @bifa_film qualifying @londonshortfilmfest 😅 One where @jamesbuttonfilms is dressed as a sheep, one where he’s dressed as a duck (amongst other things). Although the last time we screened at LSFF he was dressed dog faeces- so the screenings have got classier! Two very different films- one comedy, one art (you can guess which is which). The whole team are super excited to kick off 2026 with another London trip for this double bill (which is a pun because ducks have bills, not beaks). Mad to be screening such silliness in a UK festival which is at the very least in the top 3 for short films. See you there! 1 In 5 Sheep - Credits: Directed & performed by @jamesbuttonfilms Shot on 16mm by @oscargarth Music by @jimbertmorris Costume by @amygarth Computer effects by @paulmarke Produced by @splonkcomedy The Quackening - Credits: Written/directed/starring @jamesbuttonfilms Introducing Heisenberg as The Duck @stampedeanimals Produced by @splonkcomedy DoP/VFX by @paulmarke Lighting & colour by @oscargarth Music by @jimbertmorris @mischajardine Organist Nigel Browne Additional Music Alice Copestick Prosthetics @jaynehyman @elliebaldwinfx @mogs.mua Additional VFX by @kristaps.kazaks Edited by @jamesbuttonfilms Sound recordist @lewis.townley4 Body doubles @alunrhysmorgan @florence__browne Cameo @jasonkeithplatt 1st AD @tomgripper Focus puller @filmceri Props @kiri.walker @florence__browne Production manager @ioanharri 2nd AC @alunrhysmorgan Costumes @pairofwardrobes Catering @bearwaffle Animation @kim_illo Hair @andijamieson Special thanks and congrats to all of you! 🧡
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5 months ago
HAPPY HALLOWEEEN from @splonkcomedy 💩🦆 We had a surprising amount of spoopy shorts in the archives for this! 👻 Shoutout to The Quackening organist, Dr Nigel! 🎃
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6 months ago
QUACK?! Absolutely delighted to discover that The Quackening has been Officially Selected at The World’s Most Fun Film Festival- @filmquest 🐙This is the THIRD year in a row for us and our silly shorts from @splonkcomedy 🦆 I actually had one of my favourite ever festival experiences over in Utah with The Foul back in 2023 💩 And what I would do to be able to go back to Provo again this year… 🌵🏜️Yet we simply can’t afford the adventure this year but sending all our love across the pond and want to know how our maddest film yet goes down! 🦆🦆🦆 Congrats to all the other filmmakers!! ❤️ Written/directed/starring @jamesbuttonfilms Introducing Heisenberg as The Duck @stampedeanimals Produced by @paulmarke /@jamesbuttonfilms @splonkcomedy DoP/VFX by @paulmarke Lighting & colour by @oscargarth Music by @jimbertmorris @mischajardine Organist Nigel Browne Additional Music Alice Copestick Prosthetics @jaynehyman @elliebaldwinfx @mogs.mua Additional VFX by @kristaps.kazaks Edited by @jamesbuttonfilms Body doubles @alunrhysmorgan @florence__browne Cameo @jasonkeithplatt 1st AD @tomgripper Focus puller @filmceri Props @kiri.walker @florence__browne Production manager @ioanharri 2nd AC @alunrhysmorgan Costumes @pairofwardrobes Catering @bearwaffle Animation @kim_illo Hair @andijamieson Special thanks to LOADS of you! (Too many to tag!) ❤️ Shot on location in Lampeter, Raglan, Newport & Machynlleth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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8 months ago
Award winning actor?! Me?? 🏆🥴🦆 But I’ve been saying I’m “not an actor” for like a decade…(whilst still being in my own things for fun, of course.) Thanks @gillian.harker for breaking the news (“you know you won, right?”) after arrived, late. But seriously very cool to even be nominated in amongst such TOP tier funny screen talent who I’d love to work with- including (my mum’s fave) @sfinnerantv from @thestorkshortfilm - who is simply incredible 🙌🤯 I think by playing like 5 parts in The Quackening, I probs cheated tbf 👵🏻 Thanks to the @bifa_film recognised @kinoshortfilm for a bloody lovely festival again- love this annual tradition 🙌 Twas wonderful having a 5 night London sleepover with my talented bezzies @paulmarke @jimbertmorris @alunrhysmorgan and of course @oscargarth ❤️ Top insightful panels and absorbing like 90 shorts at Kino which annually always gets us all inspired and pumped to make more. Saw some excellent dramas that really stuck with me and we even came away with a new script which hopefully will be on the 2026 slate for @splonkcomedy . Great chatting to @dcmfilmmaker about debut feature films as now we’re convinced more than ever to make this (THE) dream come true. Lovely meeting and re-meeting a bunch of wonderful filmmaking humans. What a crowd! Thanks to @caimgphotography for the first few photos 📸 (sorry to mix them in with our silly snaps 🤳) Now back to reality, shooting promotional videos to pay for that dodgy airbnb and massive doughnut… 😅
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8 months ago
🦆 If you’d told me last year when I was sat on the sofa next to a duck that it would be screened at the UK’s largest genre festival on a big screen in Leicester Square I would have thought you were quackers. But there we are! Silly really. Inflicting our insane DIY comedy on a massively unsuspecting horror audience 😅 Thanks @frightfestuk for slipping in our indie short into your mental festival and ticking that epic cinema off our bucket list. Last week was essentially our summer holiday bouncing between 2 festivals and a @splonkcomedy screening- spreading the ducking love. Photos by @theshowbizscene & @smithyshere 📸🙌 Thank you to all the crew who had an almighty sleepover last year and made this madness happen. Credits Written/directed/starring @jamesbuttonfilms Introducing Heisenberg as The Duck @stampedeanimals Produced by @paulmarke /@jamesbuttonfilms @splonkcomedy DoP/VFX by @paulmarke Lighting & colour by @oscargarth Music by @jimbertmorris @mischajardine Organist Nigel Browne Additional Music Alice Copestick Prosthetics @jaynehyman @elliebaldwinfx @mogs.mua Additional VFX by @kristaps.kazaks Edited by @jamesbuttonfilms Body doubles @alunrhysmorgan @florence__browne Cameo @jasonkeithplatt 1st AD @tomgripper Focus puller @filmceri Props @kiri.walker @florence__browne Production manager @ioanharri 2nd AC @alunrhysmorgan Costumes @pairofwardrobes Catering @bearwaffle Animation @kim_illo Hair @andijamieson Special thanks to LOADS of you! (Too many to tag!) ❤️ Shot on location in Lampeter, Raglan, Newport & Machynlleth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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8 months ago
Double-bill (pun intended 🦆) at the @bafta & @bifa_film qualifying @shortcomfilmfestival - for our two short films (coincidentally both featuring real sheep)- 'THE QUACKENING' & '1 in 5 sheep'. Two VERY different films- one a silly horror comedy about a duck trying to kill a Welsh grandmother and the other is art. I do believe they've made a terrible mistake selecting '1 in 5 sheep' in what is usually a comedy film festival, but I admire Chris for branching out into serious, arty experimental performance art films too. We loved screening RoButler in Edinburgh & Glasgow back in 2023...which is actually WHY we made '1 in 5 sheep'! We had a week between screenings so went camping in the Highlands with 3 dodgy tents, a sheep costume and 16mm camera. Full circle! Also the curation of @shortcomfilmfestival is one of our favourites- top tier comedy so very much looking forward to watching all our favourite new works from our favourite comedy filmmakers (you know who you are!). These will be screened at some point between @richmixlondon (September), Glasgow (during @glasgowcomedy ) and Edinburgh (during the Festival period)- deets to follow! Thank yooooou from @splonkcomedy to all the crew (and cast who wasn't just James) 🐑🦆 #sheep #duck #comedy #art
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9 months ago