Frequently Asked Questions - Screen Actions

Screen Actions is the annual FREE to attend Young Cornwall Film Festival, run by and for young people between the ages of 8 to18.

On Friday 13th November 2009 

The festival has been designed by young people to cater for young people aged 8 – 18 years. 

This year’s Screen Actions has fallen on Friday 13th and so we have decided to theme it accordingly. Our theme is SILLY HORROR… dress up if you dare. No WET fake blood please! :) 

This year Screen Actions brings you a packed-out events timetable including:

Hands-On Workshops * VIP Guest Speakers * Careers Advice * Young Cornish Talent* State Of The Art Tech & Kit * Award Ceremony * Stunt Fighting Demo * Media Stands * Budget Filmmaker Tips * Dance Camera Action Workshop * Costume Design * Cafe * Feature Screenings * Industry Insiders * SFX Make-Up * Soundtrack & Film Score
 

The majority of this year’s workshops are drop-in workshops that will be on the 2nd floor of the Maritime Museum. Your young people can just drop in and out of these as they please. However, there are also TWO sign-up workshops this year, DANCE CAMERA ACTION & STUNTFIGHTING. If two of your young people would like to book onto either of these (2 persons max from each school because places are so limited) please ask about them when you call the festival office. 01209 204 655 

The Museum is in Falmouth.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Discovery Quay
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 3QY

General telephone enquiries: 01326 313388

Yes, we recommend you call the venue directly to discuss specific requirements on the number above. 

Yes. Screen Actions and the National Maritime Museum Falmouth cannot take ANY responsibility for your attending group. You must carry out your OWN paperwork as you would for any other educational trip. 

Like most charities, Screen Actions is feeling the financial pinch this year. The young festival steering group debated the logistics of laying on a two day event and took the decision to reduce it to an extraordinarily good one day event instead! 

The Screen Actions day runs from 10 am until 5.30pm. If you have entered a film into Screen Actions 2009, you will be contacted by the main festival office to let you know when it will be shown. If for any reason you have not heard from us in the days before the festival, please call 01209 204 655. 

 You can bring any amount of young people from your school / youth setting, BUT Screen Actions now works on a first come first served basis and this total must include adult staff to cover your supervision needs. You will need to book places for everyone attending, but Screen Actions requires only the names and contact details of the adult staff responsible for your group.

 The organisers at Screen Actions take safety at the festival very seriously. We have done everything in our power to ensure that the environment is as safe as possible. Every workshop practitioner and Screen Actions adult staff member has an enhanced disclosure CRB police check HOWEVER, due to the nature of the museum, the festival IS open to the public.

Entry to Screen Actions is free as long as you have booked places. You and your young people may want to bring a little money for refreshment purposes at the National Maritime Museum Cafe. There will be a discount for Screen Actions visitors.

Yes, as above, the National Maritime Museum café will be open. However you are more than welcome to bring and consume your own packed lunches during the event, especially in the instance of specific dietary requirements within your group. 

Not specifically this time no, although workshop leaders will be taking short breaks and a half hour lunch break on rotation. We are jam-packed this year, so if your young people are getting tired, give them some impromptu time out to relax (supervised) around the museum! 

 The National Maritime Museum is indoors, but you may need coats depending on how close you park!

In this instance, Screen Actions asks that you make contact with the Screen Actions adult co-ordinator through a Screen Actions staff young person at the front info desk. They can then make sure all documentary coverage of the festival deliberately avoids the young people you identify (without alienating them of course.) It would also be very helpful for the festival if these individuals also be aware that they must not be filmed or photographed as there will be a lot of separate film / photograph activity going on during workshops and screenings. 

Aside from designing the festival to be as safe and rewarding as possible, Screen Actions takes absolutely NO RESPONSIBILITY for supervising the young people you bring or ensuring that they stay within the venue. 

 All films submitted to this year’s Screen Actions festival have been carefully programmed by a young person’s group. The majority of all these films are suitable for open viewing, however this year there is a film screening named ‘Goosebumps’ that contains suggested over eleven years only viewing. All content in ‘Goosebumps’ has been made by young people, but was considered by the programming group better put in it’s own category to avoid younger people watching it without wanting or consenting to.

‘Goosebumps’ is a SUGGESTED certification and Screen Actions will not stand in the way of a responsible adult keen to let their young people see the screening, as long as they accompany them and take full responsibility for making this decision.

 This year’s Screen Actions has been meticulously organised by groups of young people from across Cornwall. To celebrate their huge amount of hard work in the run up to the festival, and to thank other young filmmakers for entering their film work, they have fund raised for, and organised an awards ceremony at 13:45 pm in the museum’s lecture theatre.

PLEASE NOTE THE LECTURE THEATRE CAN ONLY SEAT 100 PEOPLE SO IT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST SEATED! WORKSHOPS WILL CONTINUE WHILST THE CEREMONY TAKES PLACE.

 Screen Actions have thought long and hard about tackling this issue and have made a decision to encourage everyone participating in workshops to ‘enjoy the moment’ of said workshops and / or record their own souvenir footage / photographs of the activity. Due to the sheer volume of young people that attend and participate in Screen Actions copies of work WILL NOT be distributed after the event. Please do not ask the workshop leaders to make exceptions as Screen Actions not only pays them a one-off fee, but operates a fair for all policy.

 We at Screen Actions encourage our audiences to remain seated during a screening so as not to disturb others. We have deliberately programmed the screenings to never be much over an hour and to be interesting and diverse enough to keep you comfy in your viewing.. unless of course you’re bursting - in which case you’re excused to leave!

BEFORE YOU ENTER THE VENUE ensure you agree with your whole group to congregate at the Screen Actions info desk if any of you become separated.  

Screen Actions is run on an incredibly tight budget, and for this reason the money we do raise gets channelled into making the festival the hands-on, valuable film experience that it is. Screen Actions does not provide transport of any kind.  

In the event of needing to speak to someone who knows Screen Actions inside out on the day, please ask at the info desk to be introduced to Project Co-ordinator Hana Backland (adult staff member.)  

Screen Actions Project Co-ordinator Hana Backland, who will be available on : screenactions@hotmail.com AFTER the festival. 

Again, contact Project Co-ordinator Hana Backland: screenactions@hotmail.com after the festival AND fill out a suggestions form on your way out of the venue… thank you!