Dying Breed is documentary film-maker Mick Catmull’s love letter to a disappearing way of Cornish life.

Something like 100,000 small farms have gone out of business in the last decade, unable to compete in a farming world dominated by retail giants and big growers. The small farm has been part of the Cornish landscape since time immemorial – but for how much longer?

Dying Breed will be coming to Calstock Arts on Thursday, June 22 before featuring in the Celtic Media Festival on the Isle of Man, where it has been nominated for the Single Documentary Award. Mick will be present to introduce the film, followed by a Q&A session after the screening.

He spent a year making Dying Breed on three small cattle farms in West Cornwall, recording daily farming activities and the recollections of farmers approaching the end of their working lives.

Mick lived in Calstock for five years, where he established A38 Films. He took a year out of film making to run the Calstock Development Trust.