This year’s St Ives September Festival will be serving up a feast for film fans with 15 screenings at five venues across the festival fortnight. 

Catch The Wind: St Ives in the 60s, a new film from award-winning Newlyn-based director Diana Taylor, will be shown at St Ives Arts Club four times with the film-maker present for Q&A sessions. 

The film, whose title derives from Donovan’s song Catch The Wind, written while he was staying in the town, will be part of a Swinging 60s theme night, with patrons asked to dig out their Sixties clothes and enjoy music from the era, on Tuesday, September 17.

The Arts Club will also be the venue for the premiere of St Ives collective Global Jamming’s music film Tom’s Tall Tail, featuring pictures of “marvellous moggies” from around town during their Songs Of St Ia evening on Monday, September 23. 

“As a fishing town, St Ives has always been brimming with a host of beautiful felines,” said Global Jamming’s Gavin Nicol.  

“We’ve been working with St Ives artist Fred Williams to produce an animated film exploring the origins of the well-known riddle As I Was Going To St Ives to make a short spin-off featuring some of the descendants of all those cats and kits allegedly bagged up back in the day.” 

The third offering at the Arts Club is a Film Afternoon with Awen Productions on Tuesday, September 24. 

It will include screenings of specially selected documentaries, animations and archive film “showing Cornwall as it’s rarely seen” with new short films from artists Benjamin Wigley, Amanda Lorens, Ruby Ingleheart, Minnie Harrop, Janet McEwan and Barbara Santi.  

Short films made by Access Theatre, Growing Links, Carefree, Hayle Youth Group, Padstow young people and archive film from The Box on South West traditions and customs will also be shown - plus guest speaker Barbara Santi, film-maker and co-director of Awen Productions.   

No Holds Barred: The Life and Art of Matthew Lanyon will get a big screen showing at the Royal Cinema, St Ives, on Thursday, September 19. 

The full-length documentary about the late Cornish artist Matthew Lanyon, drawing on interviews with art critics, friends, other artists, Matthew’s siblings and son, is being taken to the Cinema by the New Craftsman Gallery. 

Porthmeor Studios are also screening films during the festival, starting with Memories of Barbara, Ben and the St Ives Modernists on Monday, September 16. 

It will be followed by a double bill of Fish Tin and Light and also Porthmeor Studios Through The Eyes Of The Archietect on Wednesday, September 18. 

The second week of the festival will see Porthmeor screen Origin Rebels, including a discussion on environmental activism with artist Camilla Dixon, on Monday, September 23.

The award-winning Pilchards: A Brief History Of The Cornish Sardine, is screening on the following day and The Renovation Of The Grade 11* Anchor Studio on Wednesday 25th. 

On Sunday, September 22, Tate St Ives will present A Sun Dance with five screenings of the previous day’s filming of the UK premiere of Australian artist Rochelle Haley’s event at the gallery. 

A free admission Evening Of Ambience at the St Ives Society Of Artists’ Crypt Gallery on Thursday, September 19 - part of The Stennack Sound Project – will include soundtrack by St Ives artist Pete Giles, including many from his recent releases, with films provided by Pete, Laurent Sykes and Dyhano. 

For more information, visit: www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk