The 9th Annual Cornwall Film Festival

5 - 7 November 2010

 

Planning is underway for the 2010 Cornwall Film Festival, celebrating Cornish and international filmmaking for the ninth consecutive year. The Phoenix, Falmouth’s state-of-the-art cinema and recent winner of the UK Independent Cinema of the Year award, will again host the Festival, which will take place 5-7 November.
 
 
As well as offering a veritable feast of Cornish films, the Festival has also managed to secure, three weeks before its UK release, the third film in the wildly popular Millennium trilogy,The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. 
The Festival will also present Mike Leigh’s critically acclaimed new film, Another Year, which competed for this year’s Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.  

 

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.