o-region is dedicated to exploring new film ideas and working with talented young directors. The company has already produced a number of short films and one feature, and we're always on the lookout for new projects. We have close links with many talented practitioners in the southwest, from directors and writers to actors, technicians and editors.
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.
The Midnight Drives will be showing at this year's Cornwall Film Festival on Saturday 10th November at 8pm at the Princess Pavilion, Falmouth.
Tickets will be £6/£5 and can be booked by calling 01326 211222. For more info check out the Cornwall Film Festival site.
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 (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...
An Jowl will be showing at this year's Cornwall Film Festival on Sunday 11th November at 7.30pm at the Princess Pavilion, Falmouth.
Tickets will be 6/5 and can be booked by calling 01326 211222. For more info check out the Cornwall Film Festival site.
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 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 Rabbit
will be screening throughout the Autumn of 2005 as part of a double bill with
Kernow's Kick-Ass Kung-Fu Kweens. Contact us for further info.
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
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
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, and is currently on tour as a double bill with o-region's other feature film, The Rabbit.
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
The Midnight Drives
