We are very pleased to be holding this year's Awards Ceremony at The Poly - our Favourite Arts Centre - and even more pleased, honoured in fact, to welcome Cornwall's own actor, poet, fisherman and Soure FM presenter Dominic Power to host this event.
This year's Awards include:
The Golden Chough Grand Prize: Best Film of the Festival <
An exciting and unique event for this year’s Cornwall Film Festival is a painting-on-film workshop, delivered by Unravel, the winners of the Royal College of Art's Deutsche Bank Award for Art 2010. This collective of RCA graduates aims to create a hand-painted 16mm film that will correlate in length with the 874 miles between John O'Groats and Land's End.
Now in its fifth year, and still not banned, this wild and chaotic festival favourite returns to give desperate filmmakers the opportunity to pitch for a cash award to make their next great three-minute epic.
The Festival Gala Party is open to all Festival pass holders and will be a chance for everyone to catch up and have a good chat in the Phoenix Cinema Bar, as well as enjoy a jolly good knees-up with live music from Mr Bones Presents. Come and meet Ed Gaughan and Andy Buckley, the stars of Skeletons, after their Q&A in Screen 1.
The Cornish Pasty Association will be providing some freshly made pasties alongside other treats and nibbles served by the Phoenix Cinema Bar for our special guests at the Festival's VIP reception. Live music will be provided by Mr Bones Presents. This event is by invitation only :-)
Back by popular demand, the wonderful St Germans-based band Wurlitza will be offering a pre-Festival treat on Thursday 4th November with their performance of a live, original soundtrack to a silent film – A.E.Dupont’s 1929 masterpiece Piccadilly, starring Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong.
London’s early clubland scene in Soho and the immigrant district of Limehouse form the context for Piccadilly, a sumptuous tale of danci
