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Cornish Digital Shorts Selected

Local film-makers selected for 2006/7 scheme.

Four local film-makers have been selected for the UK Film Council’s Digital Shorts scheme, funded by Cornwall Film and South West Screen.

Brett Harvey will be shooting “Bob A Job”, a story inspired by his childhood spent on a local housing estate. Brett is perhaps best known locally for the award winning short film “Me and Alfie”.

Writer/director Pat Kelman will be building on the success of his improvised feature film Encounters by exploring very different territory in a stark thriller entitled Piannissimo.

Screenwriter, playwright and lecturer Jane Pugh hopes to feature a local band in her bittersweet rites of passage comedy Friday Night. Jane’s previous writing credits include Bedbugs, a half hour film broadcast on Channel 4.

Joan Beveridge will be writing and directing Just Saying Goodbye, an unconventional and inspiring love story. Joan is also the Project Co-ordinator for Cornwall Media Focus, the local network for media practitioners in Cornwall.

The four shorts will again be produced by Laura Hill of Triple Echo, Polperro; and edited by local script editors Em Muslin and Marie Macneill.

Pippa Best, Project Director of Cornwall Film says, “Last year’s Digital Shorts were screened to an industry audience at Channel 4 and were very well received – one of them, Help, has since been selected for prestigious short film festival Brief Encounters. Cornwall Film is thrilled to be supporting Digital Shorts again – it’s a fantastic opportunity for local film-makers to catch the attention of national film funders. This year’s selection of films are looking great. Once again, we will be able to demonstrate the excellent film-making talent that exists in Cornwall”.

The film-makers will attend an in-depth training session at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and the films will shoot in Cornwall this Winter.