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Come and join us to celebrate the launch of the second in our groundbreaking series of DVD compilations of short films made in and about Cornwall and the Cornish language - Tyskennow Kernow!

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Screen 2 at the Plaza Cinema, Lemon Street, Truro, TR1 2PN
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Mon 21st June, 6–8pm

FREE ENTRY

Please contact denzil@awen.org.uk in advance if you wish to reserve a seat.
TK2 DVDs will be for sale at the event for a special discount price of £10.

This unique Cornish language film event comprises:

TYSKENNOW KERNOW 2 LAUNCH & PREVIEW
Where else could you find lobster boats at dawn, giants entertaining traffic jams, poets throwing benches from cliffs, or Kick-Ass Kung Fu Kweens fighting dastardly laser beams to save the day?

From magnificent wing-walking wonders of a bygone age, life-size puppets and larger than life Droll-tellers, to wind-up Cornish Bards illuminating illustrious opinions on the riveting renaissance of the Cornish language.

The DVD includes the first ever Cornish language film drama and a gleaner's sheaf of Award Winning Films from the Celtic Media Festival, Lodz International "Mediaschool" Film Festival, Poland and the Govyn Kernewek Award Winning films from 2003 (the first GK Award!) and 2007.

Watch the trailer and selected short films from TYSKENNOW KERNOW 2:
Will Coleman's 'Tom and the Giant', Winner 'Entertainment' at Celtic Media Festival 2008;

Andrew Edmonds' 'Pymp Gwel' – an irreverent accompaniment to some of the Cornish poetry written and performed by Pol Hodge.

THEATRICAL PREMIERE SCREENING 'SKATH'
Last years Govyn Kernewek Award winner was Paul Farmer's film 'Skath – The Cornish pilot gig'.

The 43-minute film, in Cornish with English subtitles, tells the story of Cornish poet Pol Hodge's reclaiming of his marine heritage through the sport of Cornish pilot gig racing. The film follows Pol through six months of his life as he struggles to go from unfit novice who has hardly even set foot in a boat, to serious competitor in the World Pilot Gig Championships in Scilly. This is an exhausting, potentially dangerous sport and there is no faking, no special allowances – Pol learns the hard way.

Skath's producer and director, Paul Farmer said: "Skath was hard to make. But it is the best film I have been
involved in. It took nearly eight months to shoot but I enjoyed every second, even when I was freezing cold and soaking wet!"

GOVYN KERNEWEK AWARD 2010 WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
The Govyn Kernewek is a competitive annual commission of £5,000 to make a short film using Kernewek.

The award is supported by Cornwall Film Festival, MAGA and awen productions cic.

The winner of GK10 will be announced at the end of the evening.

Gelwys owgh hwi dhe dharvos fylm arbennek orth an Plaza yn Truru dy' Lun 21ns a vis Metheven.  Y fydh lonch a'n DVD Tyskennow Kernow 2, keffrys ha diskwedhyans a'n fylm Skath (kynsa diskwedhyans a'n fylm war skrin bras!) ha deklaryans gwaynyer a'n Govyn Kernewek 2010.  Da via kavos niver bras a Gernewegoryon orth an darvos splann ma, ow solempnya fylmow gwrys yn Kernewek – ni a wayt agas gweles ena! 

Go to: http://thetreproject.wordpress.com/ for full line-up.

http://www.cornwallfilmfestival.com/cornwall-film-festival-launches-film...

FREE ENTRY

For film listings

go to http://thetreproject.wordpress.com/ 

IDTV Docs, Netherlands second largest independent production company headhunted Barbara Santi to interview/research people affected by the Boscastle floods of 2004 for a possible Netherlands broadcasted documentary comparing different cultures response to disasters.  If commissioned filming will take place in 2010.  http://www.idtvdocs.nl/

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS NOW PASSED. Thankyou to all the filmmakers who have applied; we recieved 24 entries - 3 times as many as last year! Shortlisting is taking place and the winner will be announced in March!

What we’re looking for is a great idea for a short film that uses Kernewek (the Cornish language) wholly or substantially in an interesting way.

It must be viable to make within the £5,000 budget and be completed and delivered by 30th September 2010. We accept ideas of any genre. The suggested title for GK10 is ‘Yn Termyn Eus Passyes’ (Once Upon A Time…) 

For more information about SUBMISSIONS go to Cornwall Film Festival

For more information about our project to make the Govyn Kernewek Award sustainable go to Tyskennow Kernow

DEADLINE FOR IDEA SUBMISSIONS: 31 January 2010

Tre – a Cornish word for ‘Home’.

http://thetreproject.wordpress.com/

Using archive film as its inspiration and ‘home’ as its theme, the Tre Project will collect old cine footage, create new digital content and produce a programme of new films to screen in community venues across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in 2011.

We will be making films with communities from all over Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; stories of old and new Kernow. 

What does ‘home’ mean to people living in the most westerly part of Britain?  How does archive film inform and inspire our future?

Films

The Tre Project film programme will include:

• A documentary feature

• short films made with communities across Cornwall & IOS

• a short film made with students of Five Islands School IOS about ‘Leaving Home’

• short films made by West Cornwall students

• archive films

Events

We will be coming to village events across the area with archive film material, which will stimulate interest, debate and signpost to where those stories are which need to be re-discovered and captured for future generations. 

Inform and invite us to local events where we can do film presentations

We want our Cornish community to get involved:

• Subscribe to our blog at http://thetreproject.wordpress.com/ where you will get notifications of new posts

• Share old films about Cornwall and Isles of Scilly with us

• If you don’t have any footage but do have a unique story of Cornwall to share we can try to find existing footage from archive sources so community films can be made

• get in touch: barbara@awen.org.uk

This project is made possible by the support of:

 www.cornwallculture.co.uk/feast

awen productions have been nationally recognised for the brilliant films made with Shallal Dance Theatre and won £500 in Inspiring Voices competition.  The Community Voices team had lots of entries for the first week of the Inspiring Voices Awards, which are for groups who can demonstrate the inspirational use of digital media in the community.

As a result of this success The Community Channel will be screening the films in the future.  Watch this space!

Find out more at http://www.mediatrust.org/community-voices/projects/award-winners/arwen-productions/

The winning films are: 

Shallal - making an almighty din, Shallal Promo, Inspiration, Kettles and The Tourists.

Watch the films here http://www.awen.org.uk/films

 http://www.awen.org.uk/films/leaving-care

You can read more about the project and listen to BBC Radio Cornwall's interview here:

www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2009/09/29/stburyanfilm_people_feature.shtml