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A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon the festival's focus, can include international and domestic releases. Some festivals focus on a specific film-maker or genre (e.g., film noir) or subject matter (e.g., horror film festivals). A number of film festivals specialise in short films of a defined maximum length. Film festivals are typically annual events. Some film historians do not consider Film Festivals as official releases of film, like Jerry Beck. The best known film festivals are the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival, the latter being the largest film festival worldwide, based on attendance. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest major festival. The Melbourne International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the oldest in the world. A 2013 study found 3,000 active films festivals worldwide—active defined as having held an event in the previous 24 months.
Cornwall (/ˈkɔːrnwɔːl/ or /ˈkɔːrnwəl/;Cornish: Kernow, [ˈkɛɹnɔʊ]) is a county in England.
Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of 536,000 and covers an area of 3,563 km2 (1,376 sq mi). The administrative centre, and only city in Cornwall, is Truro, although the town of Falmouth has the largest population for a civil parish and the conurbation of Camborne, Pool and Redruth has the highest total population.
Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the south-west peninsula of the island of Great Britain, and a large part of the Cornubian batholith is within Cornwall. This area was first inhabited in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. It continued to be occupied by Neolithic and then Bronze Age peoples, and later (in the Iron Age) by Brythons with distinctive cultural relations to neighbouring Wales and Brittany. There is little evidence that Roman rule was effective west of Exeter and few Roman remains have been found. Cornwall was the home of a division of the Dumnonii tribe – whose tribal centre was in the modern county of Devon – known as the Cornovii, separated from the Brythons of Wales after the Battle of Deorham, often coming into conflict with the expanding English kingdom of Wessex before King Athelstan in AD 936 set the boundary between English and Cornish at the high water mark of the eastern bank of the River Tamar. From the early Middle Ages, British language and culture was apparently shared by Brythons trading across both sides of the Channel, evidenced by the corresponding high medieval Breton kingdoms of Domnonée and Cornouaille and the Celtic Christianity common to both territories.
The Cornwall Film Festival (Cornish: Gool fylm Kernow) is an annual festival started in 2001 which focuses on Cornish film making, offering local and national premieres, and hosts masterclasses, workshops and discussions for everyone from the enthusiast to the professional.
The festival supports Cornish film making in the Cornish or English 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 (from oggy meaning pasty and Hollywood). Similarly there has been a Young Peoples Festival which runs a day prior to the main festival. This has run for the same amount of time as the main festival.
more info at: http://cornwallfilmfestival.com/
TRAILER FOR CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL - Dystopian Futures Sci-Fi season Savoy cinema Penzance 29th November 2014
Do not miss the Cornwall Film Festival starting in Falmouth on the 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th of November with: 11th November: Cathedrals of Culture (2014) 12th November: Above Us All (2014) A Short History of 3D Film (2014) 14th November: Mr. Turner 15th November: Effie Gray (2014) I Believe in Unicorns (2014) Life Itself (2014) Winter Sleep (2014) Still Life (2013) Attila Marcel (2013) 16th November: The Overnighters (2014) My Name is Hmmm... (2014) Night Moves (2014) Maps to the Stars (2014) Northern Soul (2014) Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Sunday 20th September 2015 Royal Cinema St.Ives 19.00 Green Film Festival For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.
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“Life Changes, Love Doesn’t” A short film made by the BFI Cornwall Film Academy 2015 Synopsis Phil, a young gymnast, is not the most popular girl at the gym and often suffers the ridicule from Leila, the gym’s Queen Bee (or so she likes to think). However, Macey has stuck by Phil’s side so much that Phil has developed feelings for her that she has never had for anyone before. When Phil has a horrific accident during practice that puts her life at risk, she sees the world differently and the future she can have with the one she cares about most. See more at: http://cornwallfilmfestival.com
Do not miss the Cornwall Film Festival starting in Redruth on the 31st of October with the film "What We Do in the Shadows" followed by: 8th November: - Violette (2014) - The Box of Delights - Still Life (2013) - Hyena (2014 - Nightcrawler (2014) 9th November: - Mystery Road (2013) - In Order of Disappearance (2014) - Effie Gray (2014) - Electricity (2014) - Brighton Rock (1947) - Night Moves (2014) - Northern Soul (2014)
more info at: http://cornwallfilmfestival.com/
TRAILER FOR CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL - Dystopian Futures Sci-Fi season Savoy cinema Penzance 29th November 2014
Do not miss the Cornwall Film Festival starting in Falmouth on the 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th of November with: 11th November: Cathedrals of Culture (2014) 12th November: Above Us All (2014) A Short History of 3D Film (2014) 14th November: Mr. Turner 15th November: Effie Gray (2014) I Believe in Unicorns (2014) Life Itself (2014) Winter Sleep (2014) Still Life (2013) Attila Marcel (2013) 16th November: The Overnighters (2014) My Name is Hmmm... (2014) Night Moves (2014) Maps to the Stars (2014) Northern Soul (2014) Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Sunday 20th September 2015 Royal Cinema St.Ives 19.00 Green Film Festival For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.
This video is about What's your favorite film?
“Life Changes, Love Doesn’t” A short film made by the BFI Cornwall Film Academy 2015 Synopsis Phil, a young gymnast, is not the most popular girl at the gym and often suffers the ridicule from Leila, the gym’s Queen Bee (or so she likes to think). However, Macey has stuck by Phil’s side so much that Phil has developed feelings for her that she has never had for anyone before. When Phil has a horrific accident during practice that puts her life at risk, she sees the world differently and the future she can have with the one she cares about most. See more at: http://cornwallfilmfestival.com
Do not miss the Cornwall Film Festival starting in Redruth on the 31st of October with the film "What We Do in the Shadows" followed by: 8th November: - Violette (2014) - The Box of Delights - Still Life (2013) - Hyena (2014 - Nightcrawler (2014) 9th November: - Mystery Road (2013) - In Order of Disappearance (2014) - Effie Gray (2014) - Electricity (2014) - Brighton Rock (1947) - Night Moves (2014) - Northern Soul (2014)
Robert Stephen Hawker was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of The Song of the Western Men with its chorus line of And shall Trelawny die . This film was made in 2002 for Hawkers centenary the following year .Shown in Morwenstow 26th July and later at the Cornwall film Festival in Falmouth on 26th October 2002 The script for this film was written by Patrick Hutton.
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