AN AWARD-WINNING filmmaker has released his Bafta nominated short about a paranoid pensioner hit by fears of falling.

Joseph Wallace directed the four-minute animated film, The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling, before receiving a first at the renowned film school of the then University of Wales in Newport.

He wrote, designed and directed the moody and deliberately grainy short with a Canon 5D camera and cardboard props at the Newport university renamed the University of South Wales last week.

The animation film was nominated for a Bafta Cymru in the short form and animation category and has scooped four awards including the best up-and-coming talent award at Canterbury Anifest and a best film gong at Newport Animation Awards.

Mr Wallace, 24, said: "The film was the culmination of lots of experiments and shorts I shot at the film school.

"In the third year I really wanted to put all these together. It was quite ambitious.

"The film has been travelling around festivals for over a year now, it has screened at more than 35 festivals internationally including Edinburgh International Film Festival and China International Cartoon & Animation Festival and won four awards."

The film tells how a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions in the main character called Ivor.

Mr Wallace spent eight months making his graduation film with a team of eight filmmakers.

The short is punctuated by a moody piano based soundtrack by Kit Wilson.

The film also won a best animation gong at the One Voice Festival 2012 and second prize at the Royal Television Society student awards 2011 in Wales in the animation category.

The short can be viewed online here. For more information log on to www.joseph-wallace.co.uk