Production
Two Catalonian women are travelling through Cornwall in 1611, in the company of an Englishman and find themselves forced by bad weather to take shelter in a small farmhouse. The evening promises to be a difficult one due to the lack of any common language, culture or background. However, when they discover a rare spice from their homeland being used by the Cornish woman in the preparation of buns, the conversation begins to warm up.
When the wind extinguishes the flame of a lighthouse and a ship heads blindly towards the rocks it falls to a fishermen's choir and a group of lady campanologists to avert disaster.
Dressing Granite" is a 90-minute micro-budget feature film, co- produced by Bedrock Films and Wild West Films, and funded by Cornwall Film. This contemporary story about two stone masons, father and son, addresses powerful issues surrounding family ties, the challenges of illness and the tension between tradition and progress. The film has been adapted by Pauline Sheppard from her own successful stage play and was made entirely in Cornwall, using local crew and cast.
Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the courage of one feisty young maid.
The 'last' Cornish speaker (who died in 1777) returns to contemporary Cornwall to investigate the state of the language.
