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This course is aimed at artists who have some experience of working with film or digital media and wish to develop their skills and understanding of the medium.  As a small group, we will tailor the course as far as possible to accommodate individual requirements.

Fridays 23rd & 30th April, 7th & 14th May
10am - 4.30pm (lunch included), £160 all four sessions.

In partnership with Creative Skills.  Please contact Cat Gibbard at the gallery to book.

www.newlynartgallery.co.uk

01736 363715

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://communityvoicesuk.wordpress.com/award-winners-2/awen-productions-cic-and-shallal-dance-theatre/

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

At the end of September 09 we will be shooting the pilot episode of Nettlecatfish on set in Duloe and on location near Mullion.

Children from Duloe CE VA Junior & Infant School have been following the pre-production developments and will visit the set during the production week to see Nettlecatfish come to life!

We'll soon be setting up a film page with more details and images from the production.

The project is grateful to Duloe School, and the support of Creative Partnerships.

Thanks to South West Screen's Digital Archive Fund and FEAST, a new 18 month project will start in September 2009.  The Tre Project (tre = home in Cornish) will connect rural villages across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with the use of archive film material.  

More info will be available on our website soon.