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.
Writer / Director: Harry Faint
Producer: J.T Waters
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.
Writer / Director: Joseph Inman
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.
Writer / Director: Edward Rowe
Writer: Mimi Attenburrow
Writer: Joanne Neary
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.
Writer / Producer: John Boyle
Director: Fionn Crow
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.
Director: Adam Laity
Producer: Brett Harvey
Producer: Simon Harvey
