Awen Productions CIC

Awen Productions CIC awen is a media production social enterprise based in West Cornwall. awen is run by directors Barbara Santi, Nick Harpley, and Stuart Norfolk.

The ethos at the heart of awen productions is the creative use of digital media as a tool for positive social change. Our work is about inspiring and empowering communities by telling stories through film. awen is the Cornish word for inspiration/muse. We operate with a "more-than-profit" ethos, which means all profits are routed directly back into community projects we're developing. The CIC format enables us to stay close both to the management and delivery of awen's projects.

Celebrating 20 years of awen productions! 🎬✨️ is a documentary production company based in rural West Cornwall. We start...
22/06/2026

Celebrating 20 years of awen productions! 🎬✨️

is a documentary production company based in rural West Cornwall. We started in 2006, making films rooted in this place and the people that live here.

Working collaboratively, we treat the people whose stories we tell as creative partners.

We care about the voices that don't always get heard: folklore, rural stories, women's history, community memory, and the things that might otherwise slip away...

This year marks 20 years of awen 🎉 and we've been granted £50,000 of unrestricted funding over the next 3 years from Postcode Local Trust helping us to grow, strengthen our film education and community programme, extend our film outreach, and develop a new slate of film projects 📽

We're also enhancing , awen's new documentary strand, crafting untold stories of people and place.

To celebrate, this week we'll be introducing you to our brilliant team and giving you an insight into our latest projects...

05/06/2026

🌞 Cornwall has been historically well-known for growing flowers, especially daffodils. This new film looks at life at Scamp's Bulbs with growers Adrian and Sharon Scamp. Hear how they diversified from cut flowers to cultivating daffodil, tulip and other spring and summer Cornish bulbs.

This is the third of four films we are releasing during Royal Cornwall Show!

Farmers will like it! That was the headline when our museum opened back in 1949 in the old market buildings of Helston. Farming and agriculture was at the heart of the museum and its collections so over the last couple of years we have been documenting stories of contemporary Cornish farming to preserve for posterity.

Commissioned by the Museum of Cornish Life as part of the 2023-25 project 'Farmers Will Like It' funded by the Museums Association Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.

Film by Barbara Santi, Awen Productions CIC

04/06/2026

🐷 Meet Cornish farmers Nick and Jackie Dymond of St Piran's Pork. This new film discovers how the farm converted to a sustainable pig and sheep farm, including growing all of their own feed and selling direct to the public at Truro Farmer’s Market.

This is the second of four films we are releasing during Royal Cornwall Show!

Farmers will like it! That was the headline when our museum opened back in 1949 in the old market buildings of Helston. Farming and agriculture was at the heart of the museum and its collections so over the last couple of years we have been documenting stories of contemporary Cornish farming to preserve for posterity.

Commissioned by Museum of Cornish Life tas part of the 2023-25 project 'Farmers Will Like It' funded by the Museums Association Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.

Film by Barbara Santi, Awen Productions CIC

03/06/2026

Our new film, Pillas is out today!

This new film explores the recent reintroduction of the heritage cereal called 'pillas' in Kernewek (Cornish language) also known as the naked oat or Cornish oat.

Hear from Harriet Gendall whose Cornish farming heritage informed her pioneering research Kew Gardens and farmers Tom Kemp and Will and Larisa Radmore of Cornish Golden Grains who are successfully growing pillas again.

This is the first of four films we are releasing during Royal Cornwall Show!

Farmers will like it! That was the headline when our museum opened back in 1949 in the old market buildings of Helston. Farming and agriculture was at the heart of the museum and its collections so over the last couple of years we have been documenting stories of contemporary Cornish farming to preserve for posterity.

Commissioned by the Museum of Cornish Life as part of the 2023-25 project 'Farmers Will Like It' funded by the Museums Association Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.

Film by Barbara Santi, Awen Productions CIC with music by Nick Harpley and Lewis Jefferies.

03/06/2026

'Pillas' is Kernewek (Cornish language) for naked oat, also known as Cornish oat. Our new film explores the recent reintroduction of this heritage cereal 🌾

Hear from Harriet Gendall, whose Cornish farming heritage informed her research at Kew Gardens, as well as farmers Tom Kemp and Will & Larisa Radmore of Cornish Golden Grains who are successfully growing pillas again.

This is the first of four films we are releasing during Royal Cornwall Show week - stay tuned for more!

All commissioned by the Museum of Cornish Life as part of the 2023-25 project 'Farmers Will Like It' funded by the Museums Association Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund.

'Farmers will like it!' was the headline back when the Museum of Cornish Life opened back in 1949 in the old market buildings of Helston.

Farming and agriculture was at the heart of their collections, so the museum has spent the past couple of years documenting stories of contemporary Cornish farming to preserve for posterity...

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Watch the full film at awen.org.uk or head to the Museum of Cornish Life YouTube channel 🎬

30/04/2026

Today we are sharing intimate portrayal of Padstow’s May Day - King for a Day (2022) - a 60 minute documentary which won the inaugural Doc Rowe award 2025 and was screened at the Garden Cinema, London at last year’s festival.

With exclusive access & stunning archive film, King for a Day is an immersive feast for the eyes.

Distributed by the film can be viewed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/kingforadayder

Profits shared between us and the two Obby Oss parties.

With huge thanks to the community who trusted me with their precious custom. As the night singing starts tonight at midnight outside the Golden Lion I will be thinking of you all…Enjoy your May Day! Oss Oss!

Today we celebrate the incredible audio-visual collection of .rowe.1 who is currently weaving his way down the country t...
29/04/2026

Today we celebrate the incredible audio-visual collection of .rowe.1 who is currently weaving his way down the country to Padstow in Cornwall.

Over three years we digitised thousands of photos and videos from 1960s onwards, interpreted with the community and shared this epic Padstow archive which can be enjoyed by visiting www.echoesofpadstow.org.uk.

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Photos copyright Doc Rowe

28/04/2026

As the 1st of May approaches, over the next couple of days we will be sharing the creative work made over recent years with the awesome Padstow community about their one and only Padstow May Day tradition.

First up, My May Day, a short animation made with the next generation of Obby Oss custodians.

Audio up!

Made with the help from



The final session at Access Theatre with film maker and costume and set designer .bove.arts ! Excited to share the film...
20/04/2026

The final session at Access Theatre with film maker and costume and set designer .bove.arts !

Excited to share the film with the world once all the editing has been done :)

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