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The 2005 Cornwall Film Festival award winners and news

The 2005 Cornwall Film Festival was a huge success. 

Thank you to all the filmmakers, the guests who took workshops, discussions, o­ne-to-ones, masterclasses and Q&A sessions, the Festival Board, sponsors and all participants. 

The 2005 Cornwall Film Festival Prize Winners are:

• Delabole Slate Best Film of the Festival – Pat Kelman with his bittersweet feature called ENCOUNTERS.  Pat was very emotional when George and Thesselie Hamilton of Delabole Slate handed him his award.  Having just returned to Cornwall after 10 years of working away from home he was very heartened and moved by the result and vowed to keep it o­n his desk.

• Delabole Slate Best Student Film of the Festival.   For the second year running a University College Falmouth student has won the prize - Russell Hancock triumphed with SUNDAY BENCH.   

• Govynn Kernewek Award.  Marie Foulston managed to impress the judges with her ideas and pitch for TAP TAP TAP and win £5,000 to make a film in Cornish which includes free gifts such as editing at Sprout Media, recording at Troubador Studios, free dubbing at a professional studio, archive material from SWFTA, equipment from Cornwall Media Resource, translation and mentoring by Cornwall Film Festival Board experts as well as itv Westcountry and BBC South West Television professionals.  The film will be streamed o­n the BBC website and premiered at the 2006 Cornwall Film Festival.

• Govynn Kernewek Audience Award.   The audience at the Govynn Kernewek Award live pitching event were able to contribute to the vote for the winner as well as awarding their own prize, Canopus film editing software worth over £500.  Roughcut regular Brett Harvey won the Audience Award by a large majority with an amusing pitch for his film about a werewolf in Bodmin!   
• Best Surf/ Skate Filmmaker. Patrick Biddulph and Andrew Naumann won the Big Wednesday Surf Board for their 5 minute film about slide skateboarding  - THE ART OF GOING SIDEWAYS, an emerging phenomenon encouraged by local company Faltown Skates. 

“We’ve had such an amazing response during the Festival, I’m so pleased that we are now attracting talent scouts from all over Britain who want to see what we’ve got in Cornwall. I believe that the Festival has been a great inspiration as I am receiving many enthusiastic calls and emails and we definitely got more people engaged in the Festival than in previous years.” Lucy Frears – Festival Director 2005. 

Even if you o­nly attended o­ne event your feedback is vital.  The evaluation forms help us to get our outstanding funding for 2005, to get funding for 2006 as well as being the key to finding out what you want more or less of!  Please fill o­ne out as soon as possible and return by Mid-December.  Please click here for the evaluation form.  115 kb

You can email it to info@cornwallfilmfestival.com when completed.  Or you can request a form to be emailed to you director@cornwallfilmfestival.com or give your postal address. 

The Festival office is now closed but emails will be checked daily.  The Festival Office phone 01326 253 690 will be checked periodically. 

Please prepare to enter your films for the 2006 Festival by early August 2006.  Entry forms should be available o­n this website latest end of June 2006. Early development of Ideas for the Govynn Kernewek Award – cash (£5,000 in 2005) and support to make a film in Cornish, will help a successful application and pitch. 

A film can be entered into the Cornwall Film Festival 2006 if the writer, director or producer are resident in Cornwall UK.  At this stage you will be required to submit a mini DV, a black and white photo as a JPEG file o­n CD and a completed application form, which includes acknowledgement of copyright clearance. 

As copyright clearance can be expensive you are advised to use original music to go with your film.

Please keep an eye o­n the Festival forum for news – for example who will be the 2006 Festival Director and any changes in application procedure.  

Thank you all, yours Lucy Frears – Festival Director 2005