Screen Cornwall produce G7 film

In celebration of the G7 Summit coming to Cornwall, six organisations are working together to explore what the region’s creative, heritage and cultural sectors mean to contemporary Cornwall.

The G7 Cultural Programme is being collectively delivered by the Hall for Cornwall, Cornwall Museums Partnership, Cornwall Council, Wildworks, Screen Cornwall and Creative Kernow.

Each partner will play a key role in delivering a project that encapsulates real-life contemporary Cornwall, creating opportunities for local communities, and promoting a greener, more prosperous future – the latter a key theme at the G7 summit.

 The collaboration draws on Cornwall’s long tradition of creativity, driven by its rural landscape and culture of storytelling. The G7 Summit is an opportunity for Cornwall’s creative, cultural and heritage sectors to showcase the region’s creative capabilities and highlight its innovation and ideas.

The programme includes, ‘Behind The Postcard’; 30 Cornish writers joined a workshop to create a series of poems that reflect the essence and ambitions of real-life contemporary Cornwall. Wildworks Theatre Company then created a suite of performances around the writing, which will include land art.

Community interpretations of the Behind The Postcard theme are being captured on film by Screen Cornwall, involving over 25 artists from the Isles of Scilly to Bude and the Rame Peninsula, which together with professional performers will create a short film. Local community premieres will take place in the lead up to the G7 Summit weekend and these events are enabled by projection equipment that will be gifted to a range of community groups and venues as part of the legacy of the programme.