Cornwall Film Festival 2008

A celebration of Super 8 Cine and surfing at Gwithian, Godrevy, in Cornwall

Respect your elders, tend to the young, cherish the everyday, do what you love

Screen Actions is a Festival organised by young people for young people. This year 24 films made by young Cornish filmmakers were submitted. Here’s a selection for you to enjoy compiled by the young people who have organised the event. Check out the best young filmmakers in Cornwall!

This music video was made for Tom Baxter as part of a nationwide competition.

A group of three friends' lack of responsibility, maturity and awareness has dire consequences

You’ve spent the weekend watching the best Cornish films – now it’s your turn to make one! The Big Pitcher is back for its third anarchic year! This Cornwall Film Festival Favourite is hosted by trail blazing production company o-region. The fast and frenetic event gives you the chance to deliver a two minute pitch to a live festival audience. Once the votes are counted and verified, they decide which filmmakers walk away with £100 prizes. This event will also feature the world premiere of last year’s winning film pitches. Start dreaming up those epic cinematic concepts and get yourself down to this must see event! This event is sponsored by o-region, the Melting Pot Café and Location Solutions

Introduction by, Executive Producer, Simon Channing-Williams Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God), features an international cast, including Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover of the U.S.; Gael Garcia Bernal of Mexico; Sandra Oh of Canada; and Yusuke Iseya of Japan. The story was adapted for the screen from Nobel Laureate José Saramago's novel of the same name. This bold new film is an epic exploration of human nature in the face of disaster. A man develops a mysterious and highly contagious illness which causes him to become blinded by a milky haze. Infecting all who come into contact with him, it rapidly becomes an epidemic, disabling the city by panic. The first infected victims are quarantined in an abandoned asylum and as they are preyed upon by other inmates and abused by the guards, life inside soon descends into uncivilized madness. Meirelles's film is truly beautiful, even though the scenes are extreme. Whitewashed images provide a visual representation of the victims' experience and part of the tremendous success of Blindness is in its creation of a unique visual approach to telling this story. The powerful treatment of a population savaged by inhumanity forces us to question the workings of our own institutions, the boundaries of civilization and, ultimately, just how much we really let ourselves see. This film has been given a guidance rating of 18

A colour-inspired vandal meets the blue!