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.
