Independent Film · Neath, South Wales
Taran is an independent film studio from South Wales, making bold, character-driven cinema — the kind that’s made on a small scale and lands like a storm.
The idea
Big impact was never
about big budgets.
It’s about the story, and the nerve to tell it properly.
Lean crews, tight budgets, total creative control. Constraint is where the interesting decisions live.
Horror, thriller and folk-tinged drama that use their genre to say something — never the other way round.
Stories that grow out of the Welsh landscape and its myths, then travel far beyond the valleys they came from.
The studio
Taran didn’t start yesterday. It grew out of more than twenty years of making films in South Wales — from independent features shot across Welsh hillsides and coastline to senior roles on some of the biggest television dramas the country has produced.
That’s the craft. Now we’re pointing it at films of our own. A new studio, an old obsession: stories that punch far above their weight. The name means thunder — and it’s a promise about the kind of noise a small film can make.
We stayed in Neath on purpose. South Wales is in the middle of a screen-industry boom, and we’d rather help build it here than chase it somewhere else. This is the region that gave the world its share of screen legends. We like the odds.
Our development slate is in motion. Here’s the territory we’re working in — titles announced as projects are greenlit.
A drowned valley gives something back after fifty years underwater — and the daughter who left comes home to receive it.
One nightshift in a shuttered steelworks. One security guard. One very good reason not to open the door — told in real time.
The old Celtic thunder-god, retold as a modern family saga. Where the myth ends and the weather begins is anyone’s guess.