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Board Shorts 2010

Tickets are now on sale for this year's Board Shorts surf film extravaganza.

Board Shorts 2010 is an unmissable celebration of perspectives on surf culture in film, video, photography, paint, picture and craft. 
 
This year’s event kicks off at 2pm, featuring screenings of filmmakers' work throughout the afternoon, as well as an exhibition of surf art, photos, vintage boards -- and a surf jumble too.
 
As night falls, a special selection of short films from Cornwall and across the globe will compete for the tile of Best of Board Shorts, awarded by our celebrity judging panel.
 
From 7pm there will be live music from Neil Halstead, The Tinners Ceilidh Band plus DJs Sir Vinyl of the Fattest until late. 
 
Board Shorts 2010, Saturday 25th September, Brea Vean Surf House, near Land's End Aerodrome, just off the A30 towards Land's End on the way to St Just.
 
Tickets £15 from the Hall For Cornwall: 01872 262466 / www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
 
More info and full schedule available here.

The Girl Who Played With Fire Fundraiser

Cornwall Film Festival is very excited to present the second film in the Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire. 
 
Special screenings at Merlin's Phoenix Cinema in Falmouth and Royal Cinema in St Ives at 5pm on Sunday 5th September will be introduced by representatives of the Cornwall Film Festival.
 
A further screening will be presented by Cornwall Film Festival at WTW Cinema's White River Cinema in St Austell on Monday 6th September at 8.15pm.
 
Thanks to the support of Momentum Pictures, Merlin Cinemas and WTW Cinemas, all proceeds from the ticket sales for these three screening events will go towards this year's Cornwall Film Festival, which takes place November 5 -7 at the Phoenix Cinema In Falmouth.
 
The trilogy's finale, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, will be screened at the Festival, three weeks before the UK release.
 
To book your tickets for these fundraising events contact:
  • The Phoenix Cinema, Falmouth on 01326 313072
  • The Royal Cinema, St Ives on 01736 796843
  • White River Cinema, St Austell online booking
Please click here for more details about this much anticipated sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  
 
   
 
 
 

 

London 2012 Film Nation: Shorts Workshop at Cornwall Film Festival

FREE workshops from Film Nation: Shorts, a national project with London 2012 and Panasonic are on offer at this year's Cornwall Film Festival. 

Film Nation: Shorts is a competition that invites young people (aged 14-25) to make, and vote for, films celebrating the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Run in partnership with Panasonic, Film Nation: Shorts will introduce young people to film-making, support them in developing their talent, and give everyone who enters a chance to have their work screened around the UK. Winning films will be screened in front of the crowds in venues during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012.

The competition is accompanied by a UK-wide programme of workshops to provide extra help to young people to begin making films, develop their skills and meet other people to share ideas and develop projects.

FREE Make a Film in a Day workshop for 14 -16 year olds:  10am – 6pm, Saturday 6th November, taking place at the Dracaena Centre in Falmouth.
 
Working with industry professionals through First Light, learn how to make a short film in a day, themed around the Olympic and Paralympic Games.All young people will learn about story, camera, sound, directing, editing and producing a short film.  
 
12 places available only.  
 
For under 16's - A parent or guardian is required to complete a permissons form available via Cornwall Film Festival. Form is required for booking to be confirmed

FREE ‘An Introduction to Directing – Creating Performance’  Workshop for 19-25 year olds: 10am – 1pm, Sunday 7th November, taking place at the Dracaena Centre in Falmouth

Working with industry professionals through 104 Films, learn the necessary skills & techniques to successfully direct actors on screen.  This workshop is for first time filmmakers aged 19-25.

15 places available only.

To book for either workshop please contact Tiffany Holmes:  info@cornwallfilmfestival.com / (01209) 204655 

See www.filmnation.org.uk for the latest entries to the competition and vote on your favourite or upload your own film.

 
 
  

  

Mike Leigh becomes patron of the Cornwall Film Festival

Acclaimed film director Mike Leigh has become the first patron of the Cornwall Film Festival.

Leigh commented: “My late, great producer and dear friend Simon Channing Williams was very closely involved with the Cornwall Film Festival, and so it’s with great pleasure that I follow him in having the honour of becoming a patron.”
 
At the 2004 Festival, Leigh himself presented his award-winning film Vera Drake, followed by a standing-room-only Q&A.  “We are thrilled to have Mike Leigh as our first patron,” says Festival director Donna Anton. “His body of work is a testament to the best in British filmmaking, which we hope will reflect well on our efforts here in Cornwall.” 
 
Leigh’s latest film, Another Year, which competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, will have its Cornwall premiere during this year’s Festival.   
 
  
 

Cornwall Film Festival launches two new fundraising campaigns

A unique advertising package for local businesses and a donations appeal, called £ove Cornwall Film Festival.

 

Faced with an 80 percent cut in government funding and fierce competition for private arts grants, the Cornwall Film Festival has launched two diverse campaigns to raise money for this year’s event, scheduled for 5-7 November in Falmouth.
 
The organisation, a registered charity that uniquely supports Cornish filmmaking, still needs £27,000 to operate this year’s Festival.
 
One campaign is a unique advertising package for local businesses. Designed in partnership with myCornwall.tv, it combines professional production of a 10-second video spot with print advertising. The video spot will be used as on-screen advertising during the Festival. It will also appear for 12 months on the myCornwall.tv website, and can be placed on the advertiser’s own website. A related print advert will be placed in the Festival’s programme brochure. 
 
Meanwhile an online global micro-donation appeal, called £ove Cornwall Film Festival, is being spread through social networking sites, to film enthusiasts, filmmakers and their friends – and to those who simply love Cornwall.
 
“We will happily accept £1, £2 or £5 – whatever people can afford,” said Donna Anton, Festival director. “If several thousand individuals give us a few quid – or a few euros, dollars or yen – then we might have a chance to make ends meet this year.
 

Entry deadline fast approaching

We are in our last week of calling for entries for the 2010 Cornwall Film Festival. Please visit our submissions page for details of how to enter your film.
    See us at Short Film Central      
 

2009 Winners Announced:

  The Cornwall Film Festival's first-ever juried competition took place over the Festival weekend - here are the winners:

 

Cornish Films in Competition:

     BEST FILM - Aurora's Kiss by Mark Jenkin 

     BEST IDEA - Sunseekers by Jason Bradbury, Luke Martin & Charlotte Whatley

     TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE - Fleapit by Brett Harvey & Ian Bucknole

The jury panel for Cornish Films in Competition comprised: Rebecca Mark-Lawson of Lifesize Pictures, Jan Faull of the BFI, Tamás Gábeli of the Budapest International Short Films Competition, Sarah-Jane Meredith of South West Screen, and Mary Davies, film industry consultant.

The trophy for Best Film was made by Duncan Wilson, a mature student at Cornwall College

 
 
 Student Films in Competition

     BEST FILM - Kuganiza by Sam Palmer

     BEST IDEA - Assistance by Rik Burnell, Adam Jones & Joe Wheatley

     TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE - Ctrl Alt Shift by Simon Lane & Dean Moore

The Student Films jury were Film students from Truro College and UCF: Steven Mackay, Robert Wilkes, Luke Fraser and Sophie Long.

The winner of Best Student Film received a copy of Adobe Premiere Pro donated by Adobe UK.

Delabole Slate Audience Awards:  

FILM OF THE FESTIVAL - Hedluv the Musical by David Brittain & Christina Lauridsen

BEST STUDENT FILM - Life of Prisk by Steve Wright 

 

 Steve Wright collecting his Award from Poet,        Murray Lachlan Young

 

 Photo by Simon Colgan

2009 ANOTHER COUNTRY International Short Film Award

WINNER - Love Child by Daniel Wirtberg

 

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SCREENING OF CORNISH SHORT FILMS A GREAT SUCCESS!

Over 140 people celebrate the launch of Tyskennow Kernow 2 

 

 

 

 

Over 140 people gathered  at the Plaza Cinema in Truro this midsummer's evening to celebrate the launch of Tyskennow Kernow 2, the second in awen productions’ groundbreaking series of short film collections made in and about Cornwall and the Cornish language. 

 

Denzil shows off the Tyskennow Kernow 2 DVD, much to Elizabeth Stewart (from Maga)'s amuzement
 
 
Denzil shows off the Tyskennow Kernow 2 DVD         Filmmaker Mark Jenkin with Paul Farmer, director of
Skath, which had its theatrical premiere on Monday.
Denzil Monk of awen productions and Pol Hodge, Cornish poet and star of Paul Farmer's Cornish language film 'Skath -  Cornish Pilot Gig', winner of last year's Govyn Kernewek Award, practicing their speeches. 
 
The event went with a bang as corks flew from the bottles of champagne-style Raspberry Aval from Polgoon Vineyard in Penzance. Filmgoers were also treated to traditional Cornish music from Dalla’s new album “Cribba” which has also just been released.
 
As well as a preview of Tyskennow Kernow 2, there was an opportunity to see local poet Pol Hodge’s Cornish language film “Pymp Gwel”, Will Coleman’s “Tom and the Giant” and Paul Farmer’s film, “Skath”, which won the Govyn Kernewek Award at last year’s Cornwall Film Festival. 
 
The evening culminated in the announcement by the Cornwall Film Festival of this year’s Govyn Kernewek Award winner – Ian Bucknole, with his short film proposal‘Skint – A Cornish Musical’. Ian said “After submitting ideas every year for the last 6 years, I’m proud to have now won this Award and am looking forward to completing the film to premiere at Cornwall Film Festival this November.”
 
The evening was very much bi-lingual with drinks being served by MAGA’s Elizabeth Stewart in Cornish and English. awen productions director, Denzil Monk said “events like this show how Cornish Culture is becoming more recognized by gaining a great deal of momentum through media and the arts”, and one certainly felt part of a very lively culture that night.
 
Tyskennow Kernow 1 and 2 DVDs are available from the awen website www.awen.org.uk.
 
Please click here for more details.
 

 

Festival DIrector Donna Anton at Edinburgh Festival

Cornwall Film Festival director Donna Anton gets a history lesson...

about the Edinburgh Film Guild while attending last month's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Donna, who is also chair of the British Federation of Film Societies, helped the EFG celebrate its 80th birthday, making it the world's longest continuously running film society.

 

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.