Cornish Content Commissions Announced

Screen Cornwall is delighted to share the recipients of Cornish commission funding across five project strands: FylmK Purr Verr (Very Short), FylmK Meur (Plus), Scripted Comedy Web Series, Cornish Mining World Heritage Documentary and Immersive Nature. All productions will be set in and shot in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, with as many local cast & crew involved as possible.

Managing Director Laura Giles says: “This scheme is all about strengthening authentic media representation for Cornwall by enabling distinctive stories to be told in Kernewek, and we look forward to working with these talented filmmaking teams.”

In addition, five more projects across FylmK Purr Verr, FylmK Meur and Scripted Comedy will receive funding to develop their ideas.

This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Cornwall Council has been chosen by Government as a Lead Authority for the fund and is responsible for monitoring the progress of projects funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The project is also supported with funding through the Devolution Deal for Cornwall.

FylmK is commissioned by Cornwall Council through Screen Cornwall. The scripted comedy web series project is supported with funding through the Devolution Deal for Cornwall. The documentary project has been commissioned by Screen Cornwall, in partnership with Cornish Mining World Heritage and the immersive nature project is led by Screen Cornwall working in partnership with Cabilla / Thousand Year Trust, Real Immersive, Falmouth University and Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

To find out more about Screen Cornwall’s Feature Film Development Commissions, visit the news page here.

FylmK Purr Verr (Very Short)

LIMP

During PE at a Cornish Secondary School, the New Kid tries to hide who he is on the basketball court.

Production Company: Fylm Ankoth

At Fylm Ankoth, we aim to tell stories authentically. Based in the South West of England, our work seeks to challenge notions of rurality through filmmaking, storytelling and education. We are proud to be strange, different, and human. We are a collective of filmmakers who want to continue to support the growth of queer voices in the south west, empowering them to tell their own stories.

Writer / Director: Harry Faint

Harry is focused on telling personal stories of his experience growing up queer in the south west and empowering others to do the same. In 2023, he made his directorial debut with the short film KING HENRY which is now on the festival circuit. By day he works as a Film Lecturer at Arts University Plymouth. 

Producer: J.T Waters

Based near Newquay, J.T’s work as a producer Stems from his passion to facilitate and support the telling of stories from underrepresented voices. He has previously worked with Screen Cornwall on multiple short films such as the FYLM K supported short KONIN. He is one of the founding members of FYLM ANKOTH and is currently working as an Assistant Set Manager at FFP New Media GmbH.

FylmK Meur (Plus)

MORDRIK (LOW TIDE)

When mussel-picker Merrin finds a precious hagstone, she must choose who will benefit from its protective powers.

Production Company: Bear Behind You

Writer / Director: Joseph Inman

Joseph Inman is a disabled writer/director living and working in Cornwall. Part of the production company Bear Behind You, Joseph's last film SPINES was the first BFI NETWORK-funded short to be written/directed and star an autistic person and is currently being screened in festivals around the world. Joseph has won two Gorsedh Kernow awards for outstanding contribution to Cornish Culture, as well as best regional short at Cornwall Film Festival. His documentary A Village with a View about the Cornish housing crisis has been nominated for several awards and was the only British film in the RAI Film Festival's shorts programme.

Producer: Matthew Winlow

Matthew is a film and television producer with credits spanning Comedy, Entertainment, and Children’s. He is currently Associate Producer on children’s drama series Malory Towers working in the South West. Matt graduated from Bournemouth University in 2016 and has been working in the industry for seven years. He enjoys the creative and logistical challenges of putting a production together from script to screen and recognises that a good story has to be at the heart of a project.

Scripted Comedy

BECCA

When  school receptionist Becca goes missing, a timid and unnamed young woman with dreams of buying a shared ownership home joins the reception team at the Thomas Flamank Secondary School. Here she encounters the power crazed Mrs Trevaskis who is hell bent on uncovering what has happened to the missing, Becca.

Production Company: Palores

The Becca team are made up of a fantastic group of writers, directors and comics from Cornwall. From Perrier award winning performers to West End directors to short film makers and actors, the Becca team all share a love of comedy and Cornwall at the centre of their work.

Writers: Edward Rowe, Mimi Attenburrow, Jo Neary, Simon Harvey, Catherine Beazley and Jane Harvey.

Director: Edward Rowe

Born in Roche, Cornwall, Edward Rowe is an award-winning actor, writer, director and comedian (under alias ‘Kernow King), best known nationally for his performance in BAFTA-winning film, Bait, and best known locally as ‘Pasty Man’, the Kneehigh Theatre’s much-loved pasty-making superhero. He is also a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. 


Cornish Mining World Heritage Documentary

COUSIN JACK

A short documentary exploring the impact that World Heritage Status has had on Cornwall. Celebrating the Cornish landscape, the people that made it and those who continue its legacy.

Production Company: Crow Creative

John & Fionn have together produced full length television documentaries have covered subjects ranging from Somali pirates to wildlife, World War 2 history and the impact of climate change on turtles, in addition to numerous location-based films. Other work includes features and supporting videos for national magazines about boating expeditions ranging from Africa to Norway’s Arctic Circle, St. Petersburg Russia, and a circumnavigation of the whole British Isles. Plus, a massive variety of informative films for clients on a huge range of issues. 

Writer / Producer: John Boyle

Award winning film maker John Boyle has an active interest in Cornish history, is presently working on a series of shorts about Iron Age Cornwall and has one of the Wheal Sisters mine shafts and engine houses on his land on the West Penwith Moors, where he is rewilding 6 acres.

Director: Fionn Crow

Experienced shooting director with over 25yrs of working behind the camera and in the edit.  Fionn brings a contemporary approach to projects and has a genuine passion for Cornwall and the history of the area. 

Immersive Nature

GANS’N DAMA DEROW (IN THE COMPANY OF THE MOTHER TREE)

An immersive 360° film poem that engages with the more-than-human characters and dark ecology of a Cornish temperate rainforest.

Production Company: o-region

Director Adam and producers Simon and Brett have collaborated on many projects over the years. In 2016 they shot the feature film Brown Willy (Dir: Brett Harvey, Prod & Actor: Simon Harvey, DoP: Adam Laity) on Bodmin Moor, using the sparse black and white landscape as a character in the film. In 2022 they shot Long Way Back (Dir: Brett Harvey, Prod: Simon Harvey, DoP: Adam Laity) a feature length road movie filmed largely in Cornwall. They are currently collaborating on Simon's upcoming projects White Horse & From the Horse's Mouth, using film to bring the landscapes and wild nature of West Cornwall into the theatre.

Director: Adam Laity

Adam Laity is a filmmaker, cinematographer and researcher working across documentary and fiction. He has a PhD in cinematographic approaches towards landscapes, eco-cinema and the more-than-human, and his Arctic film poem A Short Film About Ice won multiple international awards and was screened at festivals around the world.

Producers: Brett Harvey, Simon Harvey

Brett Harvey is a filmmaker based in Cornwall. He has written and directed three award-winning features: Weekend Retreat, Brown Willy and Long Way Back.

He's made various award-winning shorts, documentaries, promos and music videos including HAND which documents his diagnosis with young onset Parkinson's disease.

Simon Harvey is the Artistic Director of o-region.

He produced the award-winning feature films Long Way Back, Brown Willy and Weekend Retreat by Brett Harvey. He also founded and co-runs the Roughcut 60 Second Film Challenge.

An acclaimed theatre director, Simon recently co-directed the Olivier award-winning Pride and Prejudice Sort Of.

 
 
 
 
FylmK, Talent Development, KPSM, Cornish LanguageKaren Mac