FRIDAY OCT 4 -
SUN OCT 15
Sunday Oct 6
15:45 - 17:30
Moorland Youth
1h 9m plus Director Q&A
Films from Cornwall & Devon, all genres
This programme celebrates the amazing talent of our young artist-directors in Cornwall and Devon. Each has a unique style and theme, but all showcase emerging or established talent that we are delighted to provide a platform for.
Sonflower
Tom George Churchill, Finn Gilbert-Jones / 6m / UK
“Through ''Sonflower'' we aim to take the audience on a surreal and thought-provoking voyage into the realms of elderly loneliness, grief, and reality detachment. The film's surreal and experimental nature, influenced by the likes of David Lynch, invites the audience to question their own perceptions of reality and the structure of being contempt.”
Dowr Tamar / Great Water
Samuel Bestwick / 5m / UK
‘Dowr Tamar / Great Water’ explores the evolution of the Tamar river’s landscape through time. With a musical score composed by The Worm, the film catalogues humanity’s technological progression, commercial expansion and environmental exploitation through the 22 bridges that cross the river.
The Divine Light
Flora Tye / 13m / UK
In the 1970’s a group of people landed on the Rame Peninsula in pursuit of spiritual fulfilment and community living. This short film is about how those who remained have been shaped by this place, and how their ideals have evolved over time.
Beguile
Agatha Ellery / 6m / UK
“ ‘Beguile’ follows a group of friends on a camping trip. It is a celebration of the vitality of youth at home in the beauty of nature. But when one of the group becomes increasingly troubled we are witness to the sinister side of nature. His friends remain oblivious as he is overpowered. Shot in a documentary style but with a fictional storyline. It is an abstract piece, experimental for me, where my conceit was only to direct one person in the group and observe the reactions of those around him.”
King Henry
Harry Faint / 13m / UK
Harry is a film director and queer media researcher who is passionate about raising and empowering LGBTQIA+ voices from rural communities within the film and television industries. King Henry follows the story of teachers at a Cornish secondary school who are playing catch up to the 21st Century as two teens are elected prom king and king.
Skive
Corinna Brooke Elleschild / 13m / UK
A coming-of-age social realism film based in the British South-West. A story of defiance, hope and the connection between two teenagers against the backdrop of a difficult world.
OW KERNOW
India-May Baker / 3m / UK
What does it mean to be Cornish? This film explores a shift in the cultural landscape wrought by the gentrification of the working class in the rural South West of England. Featuring the colours of the Cornish landscape and youth, it challenges notions of wealth and class in a community that is becoming increasingly displaced by holiday-makers and second-home owners.
