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the midnight drives Weekend Retreat
Get away from it all. Relax. Survive.

Karen and Duncan Campbell are stuck in a loveless marriage. Trying in vain to patch up their fractured relationship, they escape for the weekend in a picturesque house in the beautiful Cornish countryside.

Kevin and Gary Tregidger are estranged stepbrothers brought together by a family tragedy. Destitute, desperate and at their lucks end they hatch a plan to change their fortunes by burgling a large isolated house in the deserted Cornish countryside.

There's just one snag: it's the same house.

As the weekend draws on, the Campbells find themselves held hostage and the Tregidgers get increasingly out of their depth. The stakes are raised as secrets are revealed, relationships are pushed to breaking point and body parts are lost.

The latest feature length film from o-region, Weekend Retreat is written and directed by Brett Harvey, produced by Denzil Monk and Simon Harvey and stars Esther Hall (Rome, Waking The Dead, Spooks) Dominic Coleman (Psychoville, Special People, Clubbed) and Dudley Sutton (Lovejoy, The Football Factory, Dean Spanley).

O-REGION PRESENTS WEEKEND RETREAT
WITH ESTHER HALL DOMINIC COLEMAN DUDLEY SUTTON
PRODUCED BY SIMON HARVEY & DENZIL MONK
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY BRETT HARVEY

Crowdfunding campaign

The Weekend Retreat Team are currently raising funds for completion of the post-production phase of the film. To find out more bout the campaign, visit the new Weekend Retreat website.

Trailer

Weekend Retreat Trailer from Brett Harvey on Vimeo.

the midnight drives The Midnight Drives
One Family. Worlds Apart.

The Midnight Drives follows the story of a broken family on their annual holiday to a bleak, out-of-season Cornwall. Andy (Colin Holt), a lonely divorcee who has custody of his two young children over a winter half-term, travels with them to Cornwall in a last-ditch attempt to recapture the magic of his own childhood holidays.

Cut off from his kids and frustrated by his inability to communicate with them, Andy sets out to make the most of this precious holiday, although as the week wears on he can only watch as the trip slides towards disaster. But while every day seems to carry Andy further away from his kids, at night the family discovers a new sense of connection through a series of spontaneous dreamlike excursions they come to call The Midnight Drives...

This new feature film from Mark Jenkin and o-region was shot on location in Cornwall in February 2007, with support from Cornwall Film's Target Talent scheme. The film has recently been selected to appear in competition at the Dinard Film Festival and will receive its Cornish premiere at this year's Cornwall Film Festival.

Check out the Midnight Drives website for further info.

O-REGION AND CORNWALL FILM PRESENT THE MIDNIGHT DRIVES
WITH COLIN HOLT ALEX REID JOHN WOODVINE
INTRODUCING SAM MILLS AND MEGAN ROBERTSON
PRODUCED BY SIMON HARVEY
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARK JENKIN
COPYRIGHT CORNWALL FILM AND O-REGION 2007

an jowl yn agas kegin An Jowl Yn Agas Kegin (The Devil In Your Kitchen)
Directed by Brett Harvey

An Jowl Yn Agas Kegin (The Devil In Your Kitchen) tells the story of sturggling chef Scotty Roades. The film takes place on the worst night of Scotty's life - his restaurant is the busiest it's ever been and all his staff have walked out on him. His overbearing bully of a wife is constantly applying pressure, his orders aren't going out on time, and he's reaching the end of his tether - when all seems lost help arrives in the most devilish of forms. Scotty's satanic saviour promises to rescue him from disaster, but at what cost...

The film won the Govynn Kernwek pitch award at the 2006 Cornwall Film Festival and was shot in February 2007. It features a fantastic cast, including Craig Johnson and Amanda Lawrence from Kneehigh Theatre, and Phil Brodie from Sky One's Dream Team, and also features a very special celebrity guest star...

O-REGION PRESENTS AN JOWL YN AGAS KEGIN
WITH AMANDA LAWRENCE CRAIG JOHNSON AND PHIL BRODIE
PRODUCED BY OLIVER BERRY AND SIMON HARVEY
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY BRETT HARVEY
COPYRIGHT O-REGION 2007

the rabbit The Rabbit
A Cornish Feature Film directed by Mark Jenkin

It's New Year's Eve, and Gav (Adam Webster) and Brett (Brett Harvey) - two local boys living in a remote Cornish coastal community - are short of cash. There's no work and the New Year is looking pretty bleak, but the unexpected arrival of two holiday-makers looks like it could change their fortunes - until the tourists mysteriously vanish, along with a knackered old fishing boat and the local hotel-owner's prize-winning rabbit...

The Rabbit is the second feature film by Mark Jenkin, made entirely on location in Cornwall using a local cast and crew. The film was produced in association with o-region and received its world premiere at a sell-out event at the Cornwall Film Festival 2004.

THE SMALL AXE AND O-REGION PRESENT A FILM BY MARK JENKIN
WITH BRETT HARVEY ADAM WEBSTER COLIN HOLT CARL GROSE SHEILA BEARD
CHARLIE BARNECUT SUE SAINSBURY PAUL KENT SIMON HARVEY ELLIE PARRETT & DAN HARVEY
SOUND BY JOHN CROOKS AND STEVE BRETT
EDITED BY MARK JENKIN
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY MARK JENKIN AND HENRY DARKE
MUSIC BY JESENK AND FASTER
PRODUCED BY SIMON HARVEY AND MARK JENKIN
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY MARK JENKIN

rabbit
The new DVD of The Rabbit is now available
with special features including a "making of" documentary
and a short award-winning film by Mark Jenkin.

Price: 12.99 inc. postage and packing


kung fu kweens Kernow's Kick-Ass Kung-Fu Kweens
Directed by Carl Grose

Episode Seven of a 70s Cornish comedy kung-fu series that never happened, Kernow's Kick-Ass Kung Fu Kweens pulls no karate kicks or punches in exploding Cornish culture into the 21st century...

When three Cornish sisters become the victims of a chemical leak, they discover they have acquired superhuman powers and vow to rid Cornwall's streets of crime - and never to rest until their parents' mysterious killer is brought to justice...

Filmed entirely in Cornwall on Super-8 and dubbed 'badly' into Kernewek (the Cornish language), KKKK was the winner of the Govynn Kernewek Award at the 2003 Cornwall Film Festival - a prize to make a new film in the Cornish language. The film was premiered at the 2004 festival to a sell-out crowd.

O-REGION PRESENTS A FILM BY CARL GROSE
LISA WILLIAMS ABIGAIL SQUIBB CASSIE WILLIAMS GILES SCOTT DAN HARVEY
CAMERA BY JOHN CROOKS AND DAN MALLETT
EDITED BY MARK JENKIN MUSIC BY PHIL INNES
PRODUCED BY O-REGION
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY CARL GROSE