Mazed Tales
An ambitious transmedia community project designed to invigorate traditional Droll Telling in South East Cornwall and reimagine it for the digital age. These 12 selected tales were then retold as animations, available free online, in an app, and as a limited edition book, while the larger collection of over 50 tales can be found on the website www.mazedtales.org
Hwedhel Henry JennerA short documentary film in Cornish about Henry Jenner (1848–1934) who campaigned to get Cornwall recognised as a Celtic nation and prove Cornish is a living language.
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A tale from below groundA short animation in the Cornish language about an encounter with mythical beings and tin miners below ground.
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Mark's ChinNick Harpley came second in the 2012 Govyn Kernewek competition, receiving £500 with Mark’s Chin, a morning routine with Cornish vocabulary.
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Erbynn Ebron GrowanStacy Weeks received third prize in the 2012 Govyn Kernewek competition with Erbynn Ebron Growan, a dance routine depicting a child’s poem about the Hurlers.
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Mousehole LightsBill Wroath received the audience award in the 2012 Govyn Kernewek competition with Mousehole Lights, “Evocative, tragic and very funny. Keen highlights of one man's life."
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TamaraWill Coleman won the 2011 Govyn Kernewek competition with Tamara, a tongue in cheek look at contemporary issues around self-determination and international terrorism. Warning, this film contains strong languages.
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An Teyr Goolan Vyhan‘Not 'The Three Little Pigs' but 'The Three Little Seagulls'! Pupils from Pensans Primary School share their transformed version of the classic tale in both English and Cornish.
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An Jowl yn Agas Kegin'An Jowl yn agas Kegin,' Govyn Kernewek award winning film.
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SkyntIan Bucknole won the 2010 Govyn Kernewek competition with Skynt an Ilowek, a kitchen-sink musical with high energy song and dance numbers set in Cornwall at the end of the busy summer season.
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SkathGovyn Kernewek winner Paul Farmer’s Skath explores the revival of Cornish pilot gig racing, the fastest growing water sport in contemporary Britain, in the company of Pol Hodge, poet and newcomer to this exhausting activity.
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Tyksennow Kernow 1Tyskennow Kernow 1 is the first in a dvd series of short films made in and about Cornwall and the Cornish language. This volume embraces slingers and threshers, troubled chefs and a tempting devil, a Cornish-speaking rabbit, some stunning beards, nine hundred flags, two riotous old dears and an impassioned plea for the liberation of Kernow! Includes the first ever Cornish language pre-school animation (Konin ha Pryv) and the Cornwall Film Festival 2007 'Govynn Kernewek Award' Winner (An Jowl yn Agas Kegin.)
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Tyskennow Kernow 2Tyskennow Kernow 2 is the second collection of short films made in and about Cornwall and the Cornish language. Where else could you find lobster boats at dawn, giants entertaining traffic hams, poets throwing benches from cliffs or Kick-Ass Kung Fu Kweens fighting dastardly laser beams to save the day?
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Nebes Geryow a-dro dhe'n SWFGovyn Kernewekk winner Jack Morrison’s Nebes Geryow a-dro dhe’n SWF is a postcard of the thoughts and feelings of Cornish people.
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Konin ha Pryv animationKonin ha Pryv is a Cornish language animation aimed at pre-school children and their families in which the loveable characters of Konin, a rabbit, and Pryv, a worm, take the viewers on a magical journey through their exciting world.
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Blight'Blight,' historical short in Cornish featuring Richard Coyle and Mary Woodvine
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Darralla Jooan Choy an Horr'Darralla Jooan Choy an Horr,' which won the 'Film of the Festival' award at the Cornwall Film Festival in 2004.
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The Fight That Didn't Go Right'The Fight That Didn't Go Right,' an animated children's film.
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SouperFran Newman scooped the £1000 prize for the 2012 Govyn Kernewek 90-second short film competition, sponsored by MAGA, with this Cornish language romance; Souper.
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