Name: Film Joy + Q&A with Joanna Scanlan
Start: 2025-11-12T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-12T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre

Come join us for a night starting with a Q&A session with Joanna Scanlan followed by the film Joy
About this Event

Pontio: Joy (12) + Q&A with Joanna Scanlan

Date: Wednesday, 12 November

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Sinema, Pontio
Fee: FREE but ticketed (see Pontio website)

Bangor Honorary Graduate and BAFTA award winner Joanna Scanlan will take part in a special Q&A session before a screening of Joy, courtesy of Netflix. The talk will start at 6.30pm, followed by the film.

About the film Joy (12): Three pioneers, one vision: the birth of IVF. A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment in their pursuit of the world's first 'test tube baby', Louise Joy Brown.

Among these pioneers was Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE FRS MAE who graduated from Bangor University in 1951 with a degree in Biology. He was one of the British scientists who successfully pioneered conception through IVF. The late Sir Robert’s groundbreaking work earned him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In Joy, he is portrayed by James Norton.

Joanna Scanlan portrays Gladys May, the mother of fellow pioneer Jean Purdy.

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Pontio: Joy (12) + Sesiwn Holi ac Ateb gyda Joanna Scanlan

Dyddiad: Nos Fercher 12 Tachwedd

Amser: 6.30pm
Lleoliad: Sinema Pontio

Ffi: AM DDIM ond bydd angen tocyn (gweler gwefan Pontio)

Bydd Joanna Scanlan, enillydd gwobr BAFTA ac un o Gymrodorion Prifysgol Bangor, yn cymryd rhan mewn sesiwn holi ac ateb arbennig cyn dangosiad o Joy, trwy garedigrwydd Netflix. Bydd y sgwrs yn dechrau am 6.30pm, ac yna'r ffilm.

Am y ffilm Joy (12): Tri arloeswr, un weledigaeth: genedigaeth IVF. Mae nyrs ifanc, gwyddonydd gweledigaethol a llawfeddyg arloesol yn wynebu gwrthwynebiad gan yr eglwys, y wladwriaeth, y cyfryngau a'r sefydliad meddygol, yn eu hymgais i gael 'babi tiwb prawf' cynta’r byd, Louise Joy Brown.

Ymysg yr arloeswyr mae Syr Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE FRS MAE, a raddiodd o Brifysgol Bangor yn 1951 gyda gradd mewn Bioleg. Roedd yn un o'r gwyddonwyr Prydeinig a arloesodd genhedlu trwy IVF yn llwyddiannus. Enillodd gwaith arloesol y diweddar Syr Robert Wobr Nobel 2010 mewn Ffisioleg neu Feddygaeth. Yn Joy, mae'n cael ei bortreadu gan James Norton.

Mae Joanna Scanlan yn chwarae rhan Gladys May, mam yr arloeswraig Jean Purdy.