Schedule

 Some highlights from the festival:

	1. Cornish-made shorts, features, documentaries and dance films by filmmakers and students from across the county. Two juried competitions plus Cornish-produced documentary Diary of a Disgraced Soldier and Samantha Price’s production of Bad Company.
	2. Reel Cornwall. Footage from the BFI archives dating back to 1904, including promotional films from Holmans of Camborne and the Great Western Railway.
	3. A special screening of the climate-change blockbuster The Age of Stupid, followed by a panel discussion led by Mark Paterson of the Eden Project. Special guest: TAOS cast member and wind farm developer Piers Guy.
	4. Premieres of feature films weeks or months before they’re released in the UK, including Disgrace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Glorious 39.
	5. Insights into The Men Who Stare at Goats and Other True Tales of Everyday Craziness – book and film – with special guest, author and journalist Jon Ronson.
	6. Murray Lachlan Young, performance poet and BBC Radio broadcaster, hosted this year's Awards Ceremony.

 Jon Ronson signing his bookThe Men Who Stare at Goats after the Cornish Premier of the film at the Cornwall Film Festival 2009.

  Photo by Simon Colgan

Our terrific 2009 programme can be reviewed by clicking the following links:

• Feature Films
• Cornish Features
• Special Screenings
• Special Events
• Shorts and Other Screenings
• Workshops, Talks and Professional Development
  
• International Screenings

For information on venues, click here.

Note that there are special extra screenings of Diary of a Disgraced Soldier at 3:30pm on Saturday and of The Men Who Stare at Goats at 10pm on Saturday.

Festival Guide

With a wraparound seascape by Kurt Jackson, this year's guide offers 84 full-colour pages of programme information, photographs, timetable and maps -- plus essays on 'How I Got Started' by film professionals, many of whom worked with Simon Channing Williams.

The Commemorative Festival Guide contains everything you need to know over the Festival weekend. 

Download your copy by clicking here (3.6Mb).

Evaluation

To help the Festival continue to improve, we need your feedback. It is very important to us and our funders that we gather information about you and your experience at this year’s Festival. Hard copies of the evaluation form will be available at the Information Desk, but do help us save a few trees by completing and sending your evaluation online.
 

Daily Timetables

Click for a full-sized daily timetable of events: Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Schedule of Events

Click on the Event Title for more detailed information.