Cornwall Film Festival launches filmmaking project for people with learning disabilities
The Cornwall Film Festival is really excited to be running a filmmaking project for people with learning disabilities, supported by the Cornwall Community Fund.
The project kicked off on 11th March with a filmmaking masterclass for over 30 participants from across Cornwall, including the Murdoch and Trevithick Centre in Redruth, The John Daniel Centre in Penzance and the Blantyre Centre in St Austell.
The masterclass was led by Sarah Watson and Stephen Firshman from the Oska Bright Committee, an international Film Festival run by and for people with learning disabilities.
It was a fantastic day and everyone involved had a really great time developing a script for a short animation which had its premiere screening that afternoon. The Oska Bright team also treated us to an inspiring screening of Award winning films from the Oska Bright Film Festival 2009.
We are now looking forward to working with individual groups to make a series of short films for the Cornwall Film Festival 2010 with the help of wondrous Cornish filmmaker, Barbara Santi of awen productions www.awen.org.uk.
