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CORNISH PASTY FILM SELECTED BY COUNTY FILM FESTIVAL
A film which demonstrates the Cornish passion for
pasties has been selected for screening at the 2010 Cornwall Film
Festival (5th- 7th November). The film, entitled The Cornish Pasty, was
produced by members of the Cornish Pasty Association (CPA) to support
its PGI application to protect the Cornish pasty. The CPA film will be
eligible to win The Delabole Slate Audience Award and The Golden Chough
Grand Prize.
The short film, which has been selected for a special screening of
Cornish interest films: Cornishcopia, had its first public screening at
the Royal Cornwall Show in June and over 1,900 people have already
viewed it on YouTube. The CPA will now show the film at schools and
other venues across Cornwall.
Larry File, Chairman of the CPA, said: “We are thrilled that our film
has been selected for this year’s Cornwall Film Festival. It has grown
to be a very prestigious event and we are very pleased that more
Cornish pasty fans will be able to see it. We hope this will also help
to educate more people on the importance of protecting one of
Cornwall’s most famous food products and what it means to the county.”
The film includes interviews with local people about why the Cornish
pasty is important for Cornwall and features a demonstration of how to
make a traditional Cornish pasty. It was commissioned to support the
CPA’s application for PGI status for the Cornish pasty and comes as the
case is published in the Official European Union Journal. This puts the
Cornish pasty closer to achieving the same protected status as
Champagne. If no objections are raised from other member states
(outside the UK) in the next six months it will mean that only Cornish
pasties made in Cornwall and to a traditional recipe will be called
‘Cornish Pasties’.
For further information
please visit:
www.cornwallfilmfestival.com
ENDS
Issue date: 25th
August 2010
For further press information or to request interviews with CPA
official spokespersons please contact:
Laura Medel / Magdalena Kobylinska
Geometry PR
0117 929 1900
laura@geometrypr.co.uk
/ magdalena@geometrypr.co.uk
Notes to editors:
The Cornwall Film Festival takes place at the Phoenix Cinema in
Falmouth from the 5th to 7th November 2010. The Cornish Pasty has been
selected for a special screening of Cornish interest films;
Cornishcopia.
Now 50 members strong, the CPA was formed in 2002 by a group of
enthusiastic pasty makers. Click here to view
the Cornish Pasty film.
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More news to follow in due course...
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