In the 2023/24 financial year Screen Cornwall experienced significant growth, doubling the size of our team and expanding activities across all business areas, thanks to funding from UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

In this time we strengthened our industry partnerships, participated in key policy discussions on minority languages in media, and continued to develop opportunities for local talent in the screen sector. We championed Cornish language projects, with Kernewek named as a minority language in the media bill for the first time, and thanks to a additional investment from the Devolution Deal for Cornwall we launched our largest ever commissioning round, including Cornish language feature film development strands. We saw production spend in region increase to a record £16.2million.

Throughout 2022-23 our focus continued to be on people and partnerships - which are vital to sustainable economic growth for the screen sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.  

Our 2022-23 impact report revealed that we connected more than 115 freelancers to crew jobs,  supported over twenty indigenous production companies and worked in partnership with the BBC to bring four short films in Kernewek / Cornish to BBC iPlayer for the first time. We supported HETV crew placements with ScreenSkills, provided development opportunities for local writers & producers with BFI NETWORK and engaged with charitable organisations in the region to widen access to local screen careers. We did this while supporting 100% of HETV drama shot in the region, helping to bring a total production spend of more than £9million to Cornwall.

When we started Screen Cornwall in 2019, we were confident that creating a central hub for the screen industries would drive the development of the industry in our region. In our impact report covering our first three years of operation, the evidence that emerged indicated that our work was having a positive impact on the sector as a whole as well as our community and, most importantly, that there is much more potential to realise.

Screen Cornwall is leading the development of a Case for Cornish Public Service Media, working with consultants Denzil Monk and Mandy Berry to drive forward recommendations of a scoping study commissioned by Cornwall Council in 2019 and a summary report published in March 2020.  In recent decades, minoritised languages in Europe have become increasingly visible and connected, leading to the formation and evolution of minority language Public Service Broadcasters. Cornwall is underrepresented by the existing public service broadcasters and despite Cornwall's national minority status and Cornish language being recognised by the EU and UK government, it is the only national minority and only indigenous language in the UK without its own media service.