2009 CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE 21 OCTOBER
Tickets for the Eighth Annual Cornwall Film Festival, 13-15 November, go on sale Wednesday, 21 October, at the Phoenix Box Office in Falmouth.
Set to be the best festival yet, this year’s celebration of Cornish and international filmmaking kicks off with Board Shorts, the UK’s only surf filmmaking fest, on Saturday, 7th November, at the UCF Tremough campus. Doors will open at 8pm, with tickets also available at the door. Screen Actions, the young persons film festival for 8- to 18-year-olds across Cornwall, will be held on Friday the 13th at the National Maritime Museum, Falmouth, 10am to 5:30pm. (Screen Actions is a closed event arranged through the schools.)
That night the main Festival gets into full swing with an opening party and the UK premiere of Marcello, Marcello, an Italian romantic-comedy written by Portscatho resident Mark David Hatwood.
Highlights of other feature films include the UK premiere of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, the South West premiere of the Swedish crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and the Cornwall premiere of the darkly comic The Men Who Stare at Goats, with an introduction and Q&A by writer Jon Ronson. A panel discussion on climate change will follow a screening of the climate-change blockbuster The Age of Stupid.
In addition to a wide selection of Cornish and international short films, rare footage of Cornwall from the first half of the 20th century will be presented by the British Film Institute’s archivist, Jan Faull, a Camborne native. The programme will include promotional films by Holmans of Camborne and the Great Western Railway.
Lectures, workshops, competitions, awards, parties, tributes and networking will offer something for everyone. Full programme details and daily updates can be found on the Festival website, www.cornwallfilmfestival.com. Tickets can be purchased at the Phoenix Cinema box office in person or over the telephone (01326 313072).
J.M Coetzee's Disgrace
Mark Haywood's Marcello Marcello
