FylmK Commission 2025

Image credit - still from KORDH, by DOP Amber Amare, edited and coloured by Luke David Simms.

Every year, Screen Cornwall works with Cornwall Council to commission a short film in the Cornish Language through FylmK. Running in partnership with the Cornish Language Office since 2019, this funding scheme builds on the strong tradition of previous short-form work in Kernewek through the Govyn Kernewek award. The fund has unearthed a broad range of genres and themes being explored in Kernewek and has provided local filmmakers with the space to create contemporary content that adds to the brilliant archive of shorts made in Cornwall, as well as building the profile for the language through recognition at film festivals such as Celtic Media Festival and London Film Festival. Some of these earlier works can be viewed via Tyskennow Kernow and at Cornwall365. We are delighted to open the FylmK commission for 2025.

Commission title:          FylmK

 Type:                                        Scripted, any genre, 100% in Kernewek

 Funder:                                   UK Shared Prosperity Fund / Cornish Language Office

Timeline:                               May 2025 – March 2026

 Budget:                                  2 awards of £10,000 each (inc. VAT) 

Eligibility: At least one of the key creative team (writer, director, producer) must have been born or be currently living in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Cornish based production company preferred.

Brief: Up to 12 minute script set in contemporary Cornwall. For this commission you are encouraged to provide a finance plan for raising any additional funds needed to achieve high quality short film that will appeal to festival audiences and wider public.

 Intended route to market: Film festivals, followed by non-exclusive digital distribution through Screen Cornwall channels

Scripts entered into the commission do not need to be in Kernewek, the Cornish Language Office will provide translation services to those filmmakers awarded the commission.

Criteria for selection:

1.         Quality of idea

2.         Quality of creative team

3.         Potential use of Kernewek to connect with contemporary audiences / create authentic screen representation of Cornwall

4.         Achievability of budget / timeline

 

Deadline: Friday 16th May 2025, 12 noon
Apply here: FylmK 2025 application form