Brett Harvey is a film writer and director based in Cornwall. His debut feature film ''Weekend Retreat'' (2011), which premièred at the
Cornwall Film Festival
The Cornwall Film Festival ( Cornish: ''Gool fylm Kernow'') is an annual festival, first established in 2002, which focuses on supporting and celebrating the film and media industry in Cornwall, England. Aside from the annual festival, the organ ...
won several awards.
Early life
Harvey grew up in
Malabar, Truro
He attended
Richard Lander School
Richard Lander School is a coeducational secondary school located in Truro, Cornwall, England. It is named after Richard Lemon Lander.
It is a community school administered by Cornwall Council.
Notable former pupils
* Darren Dawidiuk, rugby ...
and later studied film at
St Helens College
St Helens College is a further education college serving the borough of St Helens. In 2009/10 it had 2,193 full-time adult learners aged 16–18 plus another 585 part-time learners. It had 541 full-time adult learners (age 19+), plus another 3,2 ...
and
Truro College
Truro and Penwith College is a Tertiary College and Further Education College in Cornwall, United Kingdom. History
Truro College was founded in 1993 as a new college in Gloweth near Threemilestone, Truro, Cornwall, to replace the Truro Sixt ...
.
[ Harvey has two brothers: Simon Harvey and Dan Harvey. He later starred alongside them in the play ''Superstition Mountain.''][ Simon founded Rough Cut, a regular film night organised by o-region in association with DOGBITE film crew, which Brett is currently the programmer and regular contributor to.
]
Career
Harvey has created more than 30 short films.[ Harvey released a DVD in 2010, ''What I've done while I look for a real job'' which showed a collection of his short films.][
Harvey's first notable film ''The Curse'' (2003) was made for a Rough Cut film event and later won Best Amateur Film 2004 at Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films.][ and was described in '']The Cornishman
''The Cornishman'' is a weekly newspaper based in Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom which was first published on 18 July 1878. Circulation for the first two editions was 4,000. An edition is currently printed every Thursday. In early Fe ...
'' as "''Pulp Fiction
''Pulp Fiction'' is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary.See, e.g., King (2002), pp. 185–7; ; Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhame ...
'' meets ''Shaun of the Dead
''Shaun of the Dead'' is a 2004 zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Shaun, a downtrodden salesman in London who is caught in a zombie apocalypse with his friend Ed (Nick Frost). The fi ...
'' without the zombies". It stars Esther Hall
Esther Jane Hall (born 28 August 1970) is an English actress who has appeared in a number of television dramas.
Early life
Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts ...
, Dominic Coleman
Dominic Andrew Coleman (born 29 January 1970 in Solihull, Warwickshire) is a British actor. He went to secondary school at Tudor Grange Academy Solihull which then led him to train at Leeds University's Bretton Hall where he studied a BA (hons ...
and Dudley Sutton
Dudley Sutton (6 April 1933 – 15 September 2018) was an English actor. Active in radio, stage, film and television, he was arguably best known for his role of Tinker Dill in the BBC Television drama series ''Lovejoy''.
Early life
Sutton was ...
.[ Harvey won Best Director for the film at the London Independent Film Festival which was celebrated in ]Truro
Truro (; kw, Truru) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its ...
with two consecutive showings of ''Weekend Retreat''. He has also won the Slate Golden Chough Award[ and awards at "Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films, Fresh Five, Viewfinder, Cornwall Film Festival, International Film Festival of Wales, Frightfest, Total Film magazine and was nominated for a BAFTA."][
Harvey's film ''An Jowl Yn Agas Kegin (The Devil in Your Kitchen)'' was an English subtitled film with spoken Cornish.
Harvey is an associate lecturer of film at ]Falmouth University
Falmouth University ( kw, Pennskol Aberfal) is a specialist public university for the creative industries based in Falmouth and Penryn, Cornwall, England. Founded as Falmouth School of Art in 1902, it was later known as Falmouth College of Ar ...
.
Filmography
*''The Curse'' (2003, produced for Rough Cut, Winner of 2004 Delta Film Award
The Delta Film Award was presented annually to the best amateur film screened at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, England from 1990. The awards relaunched for the 2022 festival as a new short film competition, including a best-in-fest ...
)[
*''Me and Alfie'' (2003, Cornwall film festival winner)][
*''Pop Chorus'' (2006, BAFTA runner-up in the 60 seconds of fame award 2007)][
*''An Jowl Yn Agas Kegin (The Devil in Your Kitchen)'' (2007)][
*''Flight of the falcons'' (2007)
*''The Lovers'' (2008)
*''Bandages'' (2008, Zone Horror CUT! Short Film Competition runner-up)
*''Displacement'' (2009, Cornwall film festival)
*''Superstition Mountain'' (2010)]Cornwall College
The Cornwall College Group (TCCG; kw, Kolji Kernow) is a further education college situated on eight sites throughout Cornwall and Devon, England, United Kingdom, with its head office in St Austell.
Campuses
There are eight campuses within ...
production)
*''Weekend Retreat'' (2011, Winner of Best Writer Director at London Independent Film Festival, Best Director at the International Film Festival of Wales, and Best Feature Film at Edinburgh Bootleg Film Festival)[Brown Willy is Cornwall’s answer to Withnail & I]
Brown Willy is Cornwall’s answer to Withnail & I
accessdate: 2 May 2016
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Cornish people
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Living people
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British film directors