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Vote for Screen Actions Wonder Woman Hana Backland
Screen Actions Coordinator Hana Backland has been shortlisted for a Talk Talk Digital Heroes Award for her amazing work with young volunteers across Cornwall. Please vote for her here!
Hana Backland is a key member of the Cornwall Film Festival team and is the driving force behind Screen Actions. She works with young people across Cornwall, helping them to organise this fantastic event for 8 - 18 year olds.
Hana’s determination to reach marginalised groups, as well as groups who express an active interest in media, has helped broaden the scope of Screen Actions to benefit the wider community and inspire a new generation of young filmmakers.
The aim now is to grow Screen Actions, working with more groups of young people, who would otherwise not be able to work on a project of this scale or genre. Giving them an opportunity to engage with other young people in their region, broadening awareness of the event and what can be gained from it, strengthening ties and creating opportunities.
Please take 30 seconds to vote for Hana by clicking here and encourage your friends and family to do the same!
British Film Institute Screening of Rare Cornish Footage
Another treat for Cornwall Film Festival attendees is a presentation by Jan Faull, the BFI National Archive Production Curator, who has unearthed some rare footage of Cornwall, including:
1901 ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE AND PLYMOUTH SOUND
Part of the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection (b/w, silent)
1904 SCENES ON THE CORNISH RIVIERA
Promotional film for the Gt Western Railway (b/w, silent)
1920-1 PORTALS OF THE ATLANTIC
Cornish scenes – St Ives, Helston , Newquay etc
Filmed by Claude Friese-Greene , a precursor to his more
famous colour travelogue from 1925 The Open Road (b/w, silent)
1937 FAREWELL TOPSAILS
Filmed by Humphrey Jennings in Dufaycolor.
The last of the topsail schooners transporting china clay from Charlestown to London (colour, sound)
1947 SERVING THE WORLD
Promotional film for Holmans Rock Drills – shows the work carried on at the various sites in Camborne. The company had a world-famous reputation for mining equipment and was the major employer in the town. (b/w, sound)
1953 FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE
Produced by the BFI Experimental Film Fund
Examples of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures set against the Cornish surroundings that inspired them. (Colour, sound)
Jan, a Camborne native, will be introducing each item and giving some background on how it came to be made.
A not-to-be-missed opportunity to see some great archive materials.
Cornwall Film Festival is now on Twitter
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Call for Dance Films!
Do you have a dance film that you 
would like to screen at the Cornwall Film Festival?
This is a great opportunity for film makers and dancers from Cornwall, the South West and beyond to show short works to the main Film Festival crowd.
We are looking for entries of short films of up to 10 minutes in length, to form part of a 90-minute screening of short films at the Dance, Camera, Action event at the Cornwall Film Festival on Saturday 14th November from 4.30 to 6 pm. The screening will take place in Falmouth at the Phoenix Cinema in Screen 5.
The Works and RELAYS are working in conjunction with the Cornwall Film Festival and UCF (University College Falmouth) to bring a unique dance for camera package to this year’s film festival. As part of the Dance Camera Action programme, there will be a 90-minute screening of dance for camera films made by film makers from Cornwall, the South West and beyond.
If you would like to enter your film please send 2 copies of your film – one standard definition Quicktime master on DVD and one DVD copy that we can watch - by noon on Monday 2nd November.
Please send all films along with your contact details to:
Tamsin Godfrey
Cultural Co-ordinator - RELAYS
University College Falmouth
Tremough Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ
Selected film makers will be notified by Tuesday 3rd November.
For more info please contact Sally Williams, Dance Development Officer at The Works on 01872 261770 email dance@dtcworks.co.uk
Extra screening of 'Diary of a Disgraced Soldier'
Having sold out the screening of Diary of a Disgraced Soldier at 6:15pm on Saturday we have managed to squeeze in an extra screening at 3:30pm, also on Saturday.
Tickets are selling well for all events so please make your reservations at the Phoenix Box Office as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
One-to-one surgeries booking now
Your opportunity to sit down and talk face-to-face with one of the industry professionals attending this year’s Festival.
Whether you’re looking for specialist advice on the first draft of your latest short, or funding, distribution or image and music clearance, please check back on this site for available appointments throughout the Festival weekend.
To make an appointment, please email Miranda Adams at miranda@digitalpeninsula.com.
In the email, please include your details, whom you wish to speak with, an indication of your interest, and a recent CV.
Board Shorts Selects a Winner
The 2009 Cornwall Film Festival got off to a great start with the Board Shorts event at UCF Tremough on Saturday, November 7th.
A happier crowd of surf fans could not be found in the land. Great films, good music, fantastic prizes and a wonderful chilled atmosphere made this a night to remember.
There were also eight excellent short films for the audience to judge. And the winner was...
Ollie Banks with his documentary Board and Rider about a craftsman's hand-construction of surf boards.
Board Shorts organiser Christiaan Bailey said "Ollie has not only won the title for the best film of Board Shorts 2009, but will receive a voucher for a jacket from the amazing, environmentally motivated, St Agnes based, technical apparel company; Finisterre."
Cornwall Film Festival Seals Partnership With BuSho Film Festival
After last year’s pilot international screening programme Another Country, the Cornwall Film Festival has taken its international reach to another level this year by creating an unprecedented partnership with a similar filmmaking and film-loving celebration in Hungary, the Budapest International Short Film Festival, aka BuSho.
© Photo credits attributed to Lika Banshoya, www.lika-banshoya.com
Festival Trustee Denzil Monk and Intern Marion Monnier were invited to sit on BuSho’s international jury panel for three days of screenings, meetings and debates as well as sightseeing tours of the dazzling city of Budapest. 
Run by an enthusiastic and passionate team, the BuSho Festival is directed by Tamas Gabeli, a colourful and efficient film enthusiast who pursues a single aim: to share his love for films.
Thanks to a cohesive atmosphere among the organising team, the international jury members, the filmmakers as well as film enthusiasts, the BuSho experience provided our CFF representatives with many networking opportunities, which hopefully will help the Cornwall Film Festival to find its place on the international scene.
After this first successful exchange with its new partner and as a next step towards mutually rewarding collaboration, the Cornwall Film Festival has, in turn, invited to Falmouth two delegates from the BuSho Festival, to experience the best in Cornish filmmaking.
Not only will this new partnership raise the international profile of the Festival, it will also provide a fine platform for Cornish filmmakers to showcase their work and discover new sources of inspiration.
© Photo credits attributed to Lika Banshoya, www.lika-banshoya.com
The Cornwall Film Festival schedule of events is now on line
The complete schedule of events is now available on line.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 24th October at 4pm at the Phoenix box office.
Book early to avoid disappointment!
The Cornwall Film Festival teams with the European Regions of Culture Campaign
European Region of Culture Campaign (EROCCO)
Europe’s rural regions make a substantial contribution to the richness and diversity of European culture, but are not eligible to apply for European Capital of Culture (ECOC) status. The European Regions of Culture Campaign organisation is working to create a parallel scheme to the ECOC which will celebrate and connect rural regions: “to harness rural culture to create a better, more sustainable future for rural regions individually, collectively and in Europe as a whole”.
The Cornwall Film Festival is working to support the EROCCO project because of our strong promotion of Cornwall and the Cornish language.
The Cornwall Film Festival has scheduled a reception for the EROCCO team and invited guests and will be screening of 'What it Means to be Cornish' (produced by Denzil Monk a Festival board member).
By holding the reception at the festival, EROCCO members will get to meet our visiting VIPs as well as local film makers and get a feel for our role in Cornish culture. We are proud and delighted to be able to support Cornwall's Region of Culture campaign.
