The Cornwall Film Festival is an annual festival, first established in 2002, which focuses on supporting and celebrating the film and media industry in Cornwall, England. Aside from the annual festival, the organisation also engages with film-makers and audiences throughout the year by offering local and national premieres, and hosting masterclasses, workshops and discussions for everyone from the enthusiast to the professional. The film festival has been recognised by a number of well-known individuals in the film industry, such as film critic Mark Kermode, who created a five-minute promotional video for the event in 2013. The festival supports Cornish film making in both the Cornish and English language and there is a "govynn kernewek" competition in which applicants present their idea for a film in the Cornish language, with the winners receiving financial, material and technical support for the production. Many film-makers who work solely in English will refer to themselves as Cornish film-makers. Their films often make use of Cornish themes, landscape and way of life. Certainly the concept of a Cornish film industry exists, the term 'Oggywood' has been coined. Similarly there has been a Young People's Festival which runs a day prior to the main festival. This has run for the same amount of time as the main festival. In 2014, a new director was appointed by the board to create a "sustainable creative vision" for the future of the festival. The 2019 event is scheduled to take place from 15–17 November at The Poly in Falmouth.
'''Previous Festival Dates'''
2017- 11 & 12 November | The Poly, Falmouth 2018- 9-11 November | The Poly, Falmouth 2019- 15- 17 November | The Poly, Falmouth 2020- 13-15 November | The Poly, Falmouth
Feature Films Screened
2017 The Florida Project | Dir. Sean Baker Even When I Fall + Q&A | Dir.Sky Neal & Kate McLarnon The Party | Dir. Sally Potter The Square | Dir. Ruben Östlund Last Fisherman | The Yukon Assignment | Pro. Charlie Fripp Wilderness | Dir. Justin Doherty God's Own Country | Dir. Francis Lee Killing of a Sacred Deer | Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Patti Cake$ | Dir. Geremy Jasper 2018 PREVIEW FoxTrot | Dir. Samuel Maoz Songbird + Q&A with Dir. | Dir. Jamie Adams On a Knife Edge + Q&A with Dir. |Dir. Jeremy Williams PREVIEW Colette | Dir. Wash Westmoreland Peterloo + Q&A with Dir. | Dir. Mike Leigh The Wife | Dir. The Eyes of Orson Welles | Dir. Mark Cousins The Tale | Dir. Jennifer Fox Shoplifters | Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda Hannah | Dir. Andrea Pallaoro The Wrecking Season | Dir. Jane Darke 2019 PREVIEW System crasher | Dir Nora Fingscheidt Honeyland | Dir Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov Monos | Dir Alejandro Landes Good Posture | Dir Dolly Wells Little Monsters |Dir. Abe Forsythe Only You + Q&A with Director | Dir. Harry Wootliff PREVIEW Jojo Rabbit | Dir. Taika Waititi Blues Brothers | Dir. John Landis Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
Awards
2005 Delabole Slate Audience Award Film of the Festival: Encounters, Dir: Pat Kelman Prod.: Jonty Reason on behalf of Pittot Films 2005 Delabole Slate Audience Award Student Film of the Festival: Sunday Bench, Dir: Russell Hancock 2005 Govynn Kernewek Award: Tap Tap Tap, Dir: Marie Foulston 2019
Fellowship Awards: Rory Wilton Golden Chough:Mark Jenkin for Bait Music Video Award: JERUSALEM Best Short Award: FUNFAIR Best Regional Short: YN Mor Sub Awards: Best Scriptwriting THE SEA Written by Cameron Richards Highly Commended for Writing: FLYING LESSONS Written, produced and directed by Laurence Donoghue Best Actor : Anna Friel: The Sea Best Ensemble Cast: 'Yn Mor'
