FILMHOUSE AND DRAMBUIE ANNOUNCE EXTRAORDINARY CINEMA PARTNERSHIP

Edinburgh, Scotland – 9 October 2012

Filmhouse Cinema and Drambuie today announced a brand new partnership that will see the Scottish drinks brand support a series of film seasons that will bring “A Taste of the Extraordinary” to Edinburgh cinema audiences during the next twelve months.

This innovative sponsorship, between the Scotch whisky spirit and Edinburgh’s home of cultural cinema, will kick-off with a season of seven of the nine surviving silent films by Alfred Hitchcock. These films, recently restored by the BFI, will be brought to Scottish audiences for the first time accompanied by live soundtrack performances. The hidden Hitchcock gems will be shown at Filmhouse during November, with further “A Taste of the Extraordinary” cinema seasons to follow in the coming months.

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse said, “For decades now Filmhouse has showcased the very best cinema from around the world, including new releases, archive titles, seasons and festivals. Our collaboration with Drambuie is a first of its kind partnership for Filmhouse and over the next year we look forward to working with them on bringing “A Taste of the Extraordinary” to our audiences, starting in November with the Hitchcock Silent Films.”

Vicki Wonders, Senior Brand Manager at The Drambuie Liqueur Company Ltd, said: “This is an exciting and relevant collaboration for Drambuie. As an internationally recognised, family-owned brand with its roots still firmly in Scotland, it gives us the opportunity to bring a series of ‘firsts’ to our consumers in Edinburgh. By adding a series of unique screenings to the already outstanding offering that the Filmhouse curates, we are enriching the cultural experience of the audience. By offering them the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with the brand itself with complimentary cocktails being served throughout the season we really are offering ‘A Taste of the Extraordinary’ to Edinburgh.

For further information please visit www.filmhousecinema.com / www.drambuie.com

Contact: For Filmhouse, victoria.rycroft@cmi-scotland.co.uk or

For Drambuie, grace@wcommunications.co.uk

Notes to Editors:

Filmhouse was opened in 1979 and has since been one of the leading entertainment and cultural venues in Edinburgh, showcasing an array of cinema. Throughout the year Filmhouse showcases the best cinema from across the world, including new feature films, re-releases, retrospectives, and a variety of mini-seasons and festivals, as well as playing host each June to its sister organisation the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Filmhouse is supported by Creative Scotland, The City of Edinburgh Council and Europa Cinemas.

The Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) was founded in 2010 with a vision to be at the forefront of film and the moving image in Scotland. The CMI currently comprises the EIFF, Edinburgh Filmhouse and Edinburgh Film Guild and its aim is to lead, inspire, educate and entertain in the moving image space. The CMI is currently developing an ambitious plan to create new businesses and initiatives in Scotland related to film thought and practice. Drambuie is an extraordinary blend of the finest aged Scotch whisky, spices, and heather honey. The recipe was created more than 260 years ago exclusively for Prince Charles Edward Stuart of Scotland. Drambuie has always been produced in Scotland. It was first produced at The Broadford Hotel on the Isle of Skye and in 1909 production was taken to Edinburgh. Chosen by the cellars of Buckingham Palace, the House of Lords and sent to the British Army during two World Wars, Drambuie quickly gained popularity.

In 1950s America, Drambuie became synonymous with the classic cocktail favoured by the Rat Pack – The Rusty Nail™. Today Drambuie is enjoyed neat, over ice and as a long refreshing drink mixed with soda or ginger beer. The new Drambuie 15 Year Old is a whisky connoisseur’s expression of Drambuie, best sipped and savoured neat or over ice.

For more information visit www.drambuie.com, facebook.com/UKDrambuie or @Drambuie.

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October 9, 2012 – 9:10 am Categories: Festivals, Film, Happenings | Post a comment

The Gallic Invasion

The latest in the lucrative Astérix franchise, the £50million Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia will open the French Film Festival UK with premieres in four cities – London (CinéLumière), Edinburgh (Filmhouse), Glasgow(GFT) and Dundee (DCA) on 8, 9, 10 and 11 November respectively.

The spectacular extravaganza adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s original 1966 comic book Astérix in Britain features a stellar cast with Edoard Baer as Astérix, Gérard Depardieu as his rotund sidekick Obélix and Catherine Deneuve incarnating the Queen of England.

The film only opens in France on 17 October and had its avant-première at the British Film Festival in Dinard, the FFF UK’s opposite number across the Channel.

The fourth instalment of the franchise follows the glorious legions of Rome led by Julius Caesar as they invade Britain. Astérix and Obélix cross the Channel to help Anticlimax and the Queen of the Britons stand strong against the invading Romans. The year is 50 BC and Caesar is hungry for new conquests … but naturally there is a certain resistance.

Like Braveheart before it, the production was partly filmed in Ireland doubling for Scottish locations.The Festival organisers have invited guests from the film team – and await confirmations.

The 20th edition of the annual Festival (from 8 November to 2 December) which originally began in Scotland’s leading cinemas Edinburgh Filmhouse and Glasgow Film Theatre before encompassing many other location across the UK including a strong London, features a bumper programme of retrospectives and tributes (Chantal Akerman and Jacques Demy) and particular close-ups on aspects of francophone cinema with a special Québec strand.

Richard Mowe, director and co-founder of the event said “It’s difficult to believe that two decades have flown by – almost in a flash.” Mowe who has received one of France’s highest honours (Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres from the Ministry of Culture) for his work, continued: “After The Artist and Untouchable French cinema is on roll. The new Astérix will set us off with a high profile bang – and the rest of the programme is as vital and varied as ever.”

www.frenchfilmfestival.co.uk

 

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FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL UK CELEBRATES 20 GLORIOUS YEARS

After this year’s Oscar-fuelled success of The Artist and more recently Untouchables, which is on course for a place in history as France’s most successful film, the French Film Festival UK celebrates its 20th anniversary against a background of euphoria.

The 20th edition, embracing French and francophone cinema in all its diversity, in key towns and cities around the country features a bumper programme bursting with variety and vitality. The main Festival runs from 8 November to 2 December 2012.

The event opens with a bang: the UK première in four cities (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee) of Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia / Astérix et Obélix: Au Service de Sa Majesté, a £50 million extravaganza adapted from René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s original 1966 comic book Astérix in Britain. It features a stellar cast with Edoard Baer as Astérix, Gérard Depardieu as his rotund sidekick Obélix and Catherine Deneuve incarnating the Queen of England. It only opens in France on 17 October and had its avant-première at the British Film Festival in Dinard, the FFF UK’s opposite number across the Channel.

The Festival puts a major retrospective focus on the work of Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, who as been described as one of the boldest cinematic visionaries of the past quarter century and has a body of work that is singular and influential. The season, curated by Marion Schmid, Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh, will see Akerman appear in person in Edinburgh, London and Glasgow to present her latest film Almayer’s Folly / La Folie Almayer, brilliantly adapted from Joseph Conrad’s debut novel, a stunning meditation on colonialism, racism and one man’s obsessive love for his daughter.

The Panorama section features contemporary dramas with insights into the way we live now and vital global concerns by such directors as Philippe Lioret (All Our Desires), Cédric Kahn (A Better Life) and Moussa Touré (La Pirogue) to a hard-edged thriller from Pierre Jolivet (Armed Hands) and sophisticated comedy from Anne Fontaine (My Worst Nightmare) and Noémie Lvovsky (Camille Rewinds) and childhood nostalgia (War of the Buttons).

Discovery uncovers new promising talents among them such strong female directors as sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin (17 Women) and Valérie Donizelli (Declaration of War) as well as actor turned director Jalil Lespert with his second feature Headwinds. Pierre Schoeller who made Versailles, joins the array with his highly regarded second outing The Minister. There are refreshing debuts from François Pirot with Mobile Home, an ingenious road movie, and Sophie Lellouche’s Paris-Manhattan, a romantic comedy of charm with more than touch of Woody Allen. Also making a mark are the hit What’s in a Name (Mathieu Delaporte, Alexandre de laPatellière) and A World Without Women (Guillaume Brac).

As part of the Festival’s wider horizons a special welcome is given for the first time to The Québec Cinema Showcase with a representative selection of features and shorts including Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways.

There are two animation delights in Patrice Leconte’s witty and ultimately upbeat The Suicide Shop and the improbable friendship between a bear and a mouse Ernest and Celestine. Documentaries comprise Raymond Depardon’s evocative essay Journal de France and Paul Lacoste’s sumptuous food feast Step Up to the Plate plus a series of Portraits de Paris from different directors

Cinema heritage makes a strong impression with the stunning restoration of Georges Méliès’ pioneering A Trip to the Moon from 1902  (and a documentary about its rebirth The Extraordinary Journey) as well as classic titles from René Clément, Jacques Demy, and Georges Franju.

Exclusive previews of films due to be seen shortly on UK screens have been compiled with distributors Soda (Renoir and Journal de France), Swipe Films (You Will be My Son), Lionsgate (Rebellion), Our Children (Peccadillo) and Partners in Crime (StudioCanal).

To date confirmed Festival guests include Chantal Akerman (Allmayer’s Folly); Pierre Jolivet (Armed Hands); Eric Lange (The Extraordinary Voyage); Sophie Lellouche (Paris-Manhattan); François Pirot, Arthur Dupont, Guillaume Couix (Mobile Home) and Noémie Lovsky (Camille Rewinds). Updates via website.

A photographic odyssey through the two decades of the Festival will adorn the walls of partner hotel Sofitel St James in London and the café-bar of partner venue Edinburgh Filmhouse for the event’s duration, an exhibition curated by the festival’s film and image crew Otto Koota and Peter Rebac whose documentary on 20 years of French cinema, Vingts ans dèja will be available to sample at select screenings and online.

Musician Jason Kouchak has a new role as the Festival’s music director, playing at various gala occasions including a launch in Paris on 17 October hosted at his residence by Sir Peter Ricketts, the British Ambassador to France.

For further information, interview requests, screeners and images, contact: Adrienne Benassy, Press Officer, French Film Festival UK 07776 848928 communication@frenchfilmfestival.org.uk

PARTICIPATING CINEMAS IN SCOTLAND: EDINBURGH FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH DOMINION, GLASGOW FILM THEATRE, DUNDEE DCA, INVERNESS EDEN COURT, ABERDEEN BELMONT AND CINEWORLD UNION SQUARE, KIRKCALDY ADAM SMITH

PARTICIPATING CINEMAS IN ENGLAND: LONDON CINE LUMIERE, BRISTOL WATERSHED, MANCHESTER CORNERHOUSE, WARWICK ARTS CENTRE.

Notes for Editors: The French Film Festival began in 1992 in a modest way in two Scottish cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow and gradually has grown to encompass many key locations throughout the UK from Dundee and Kirkcaldy to Inverness and Aberdeen as well as London, Bristol, Warwick and Manchester. The festival presents a wide spectrum of French-language cinema from major hits to cutting edge new directors and classics and retrospectives. Originally the FFF was created by two film journalists Richard Mowe and Allan Hunter, the latter now co-director of the burgeoning Glasgow Film Festival. Mowe is now director of the FFF with Ilona Morison as deputy director. The festival’s supporters include Creative Scotland, Institut français, Alliance francaise, the French Embassy, Total, TV5, Regional Screen Scotland, Wallonie-Bruxelles Images; SODEC; The Caledonian (A Waldorf Astoria Hotel), Sofitel, Novotel and many other funders and sponsors. More information can be found via the festival website www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.


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Africa in Motion Film Festival

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October 5, 2012 – 9:02 am Categories: Festivals, Film | Post a comment

AFRICA IN MOTION (AiM) FILM FESTIVAL 2012

 

 

 

Thursday 25 October – Friday 2 November

Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh

Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT), Glasgow

AiM Sets Sights on Modern Africa

Scotland’s biggest celebration of African cinema today launches its ambitious 2012 programme. Featuring the best in contemporary African film, Africa in Motion (AiM) returns for its 7th consecutive year to Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh, and launches this year for the first time at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT).

Taking the very timely theme of ‘Modern Africa’, and arriving hot on the heels of Damon Albarn’s Africa Express UK music tour, the festival’s diverse, continent-spanning programme of documentary and fictional films (totalling 20 UK premieres, 23 features and 32 shorts) will explore African urban and rural experiences, identity and popular culture, contemporary politics and social issues, Africa’s rich heritage and its exciting future.

Director of AiM Isabel Moura Mendes says, ‘We are both thrilled and extremely proud of the strong programme of films and events we are bringing to our audiences this year. Our wide and diverse contemporary Africa-focused programme will entertain, inform, surprise and move people. Above all, audiences will be offered the opportunity to engage with the best of African cinema. It will be a true celebration of African creativity and, once again, one not to be missed!’

The festival programme opens on Wednesday 25 October (in Glasgow, Sunday 28 October) with the UK premiere of Uhlanga (The Mark), the story of three teenagers struggling against poverty and prejudice written and directed by celebrated South African author and playwright Ndaba ka Ngwane, who will be in attendance. The programme closes on Friday 2 November (Glasgow, Wednesday 31 October) with Nigerian-born director Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City, the story of a young African immigrant living and falling in love on the fringes of New York City.

The programme takes in five strands: African Science Fiction, Arab Spring Documentaries, Nollywood (Nigeria’s film industry, the second largest in the world), Modern African Identities and African Popular Arts. AiM 2012 also incorporates the annual Short Film Competition, African Films for Children, a Secondary Schools Screening and an academic Symposium.

The full programme is available at: www.africa-in-motion.org.uk

For further information, interview requests and publicity images, please contact: Miles Fielder

Press Officer; Email: press@africa-in-motion.org.uk; Mobile: 0044 (0)7760 284 177

Notes to Editors

Interview opportunities: AiM Director Isabel Moura Mendes (Edinburgh) and Co-Director Natalia Palombo (Glasgow); festival founder, programme consultant and advisor Lizelle Bisschoff; filmmakers Ndaba ka Ngwane – Uhlanga (The Mark); Jean-Pierre Bekolo – Les Saignantes (The Bloodettes) and Quartier Mozart; Sara Blecher – Otelo Burning; and Nigerian scholar and Nollywood specialist Onookome Okome, will be available in advance and during the festival.

September 27, 2012 – 2:49 pm Categories: Festivals, Film | Post a comment

Robert Guédiguian visits the UK to present The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The award-winning filmmaker Robert Guédiguian presents The Snows of Kilimanjaro, to UK audiences later this week, heralding the release of the film in key cities including London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
Guédiguian returns to the Cambridge Film Festival on Thursday (13 September) where his film will open the ten-day event. He was previously a guest of the Festival in 2009 with The Army of Crime. After Cambridge Guédiguian will attend the avant-première in London at the CinéLumière in South Kensington on Friday (14 September). The following day (Saturday 15 September) The Snows of Kilimanjaro will be one of the eagerly anticipated titles at the London Labour Film Festival at the Prince Charles Theatre, off Leicester Square.
Guédiguian will talk to audiences in both Cambridge and London to provide an in-depth understanding of his socio-romantic drama, its Marseille working-class background and his work with his favourite actors such as Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.

Described as “populist, political and intelligent drama” by Time Out, The Snows of Kilimanjaro has won many prizes including the European Parliament Film Prize in 2011. It was part of the official selection at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Inspired by Victor Hugo’s poem How Good are the Poor, The Snows of Kilimanjaro tells of the relationship between Michel, recently made redundant from the shipyards, and Marie-Claire, his caring wife. Their lives change when their ideals of community and solidarity are challenged by a new generation of workers and social issues.

Cambridge Arts Picture House, 13 September, 20:30 http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk

London CinéLumière, 14 September, 18:00
www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/

London Prince Charles, 15 September, 20.30
www.londonlabourfilmfest.com

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LOST ART REVIVED FOR CINEMA CENTENARY

The Hippodrome
10-12 Hope Street
Bo’ness
EH51 0AA
Box office 01324 506850
arts@falkirkcommunitytrust.org
Filmhouse is next week presenting ‘The Lost Art of the Film Explainer’ – a rare blend
of storytelling, live music and archive film on Saturday 19 August at 4pm.  This
special event is part of the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema’s Scottish tour to
celebrate the centenary of the Hippodrome cinema in Bo’ness, Scotland’s oldest
purpose-built picture palace.

Part narrator and part actor, the Film Explainer stood next to silent movie screens in
Japan, across Asia and parts of Europe enriching the movies with an entertaining
combination of background information, unique interpretation and theatrical
storytelling.  Storyteller Andy Cannon and musicians Wendy Weatherby and Frank
McLaughlin revive this tradition largely forgotten since the silent movie era.  With
cello, guitar, smallpipes and song, the trio’s popular brand of traditional stories and
music accompany films from the Scottish Screen Archive.  The programme includes
Scotland’s first fiction film ‘Mairi: The Romance of a Highland Maiden’, made in 1912
the year the Hippodrome opened, and ‘St Kilda – Britain’s Loneliest Isle’ an elegiac
journey to the remotest part of the British Isles on the eve of the island’s evacuation
in August 1930.

Commissioned for the 2012 Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, ‘The Lost Art of
the Film Explainer’ was a hit with Festival audiences in March.  The Filmhouse
performance coincides with the National Library of Scotland’s major summer
exhibition ‘Going to the pictures: Scotland at the cinema’ presenting items from the
vast national collections and the Scottish Screen Archive holdings to celebrate
cinema-going in Scotland and how Scots and Scotland have been represented on
film.

Ruth Washbrook, Curator of the National Library’s exhibition and Senior Curator at
the Scottish Screen Archive said: “The Film Explainer is a truly unique experience
bringing together cinema and theatre for a show that will both entertain and delight.
Andy Cannon breathes new life into Scotland’s wonderful archive films providing both
an enlightening and humorous interpretation for a new audience.  Scottish Screen
Archive is delighted to be part of this event which enables a wide range of people to
experience archive film in new and exciting ways.”

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse, added: “Here at Filmhouse we regularly present
silent films with one form of live musical accompaniment or another – from small
orchestras to solo pianists – so were intrigued to discover the Hippodrome Festival of

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Vicinity – Photography exhibition opening, Tuesday 1 May

The Vicinity exhibition features work by a selection of third year photography students exploring the notion of ‘place’.

The students look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition.

Opening times:

Tuesday 1 May: 5.30pm – 9.00pm

Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 May: 12 noon – 7pm

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Photographers:

Hayley Burnett

Kirsty Langley Cochrane

Katarzyna Branicka

Daniel Gourley

Mathew Hay

Lewis Nicoletti

Eilidh Sutherland

Sophie Turner

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Hope to see you all there.

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Blackthorn – Filmhouse Cinema

 

Showing Fri 20 Apr to Thu 26 Apr

In Mateo Gil’s intimate and adventurous Western, a reimagined and aged Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) is living under the assumed name, James Blackthorn, in a secluded Bolivian village, 20 years after his disappearance (and supposed death) in 1908. Surviving humbly off the land and finding occasional comforts with a local woman, he longs to end his personal exile and return to the US to see his family. Reluctantly joining forces with a Spanish robber (Eduardo Noriega) who promises him a cut of the loot, Blackthorn sets out on one final adventure… and discovers he’s not the only one harbouring a deep secret.

March 29, 2012 – 8:24 am Categories: Events, Film | Post a comment

Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux and Rebecca Zlotowski in London

Louis GARREL, Léa SEYDOUX and Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI will be in London on Tuesday 10 January at Ciné Lumière for the UK Premieres of their films “The Little Tailor” and “Dear Prudence”.

These special screenings announcing the launch of the second edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival.com (12 Jan – 1 Feb), uniFrance’s online festival.

January 6, 2012 – 8:55 am Categories: Events, Exhibitions, Happenings | Post a comment

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Call for Entries for Talent Development Opportunities

Call for Entries for Talent Development Opportunities
from Edinburgh International Film Festival
and the Centre for the Moving Image

NETWORK
Edinburgh International Film Festival is currently seeking applications for Network. This online talent development initiative offers access to a wide variety of information, advice and industry professionals.

Network is about forming connections between people, and joining the dots in a fragmented industry. It will support and guide filmmakers as they develop their film projects, and will empower and enable them rather than tell them what to do. By using new media, participants of Network will be active in their own development.

Network is aimed at screenwriters, directors and producers, individually and in teams, who have proven experience and are ready to break into feature production, or who are breaking into it on a low budget scale.

All developments are different: some participants will be writing a screenplay; some will be learning how to package, pitch and finance a film; some will be putting together a creative team and some will be doing all of these. With Network, every participant will develop a feature project and each project will be supported and mentored individually.

Knowledge is power. Network will bring participants together in a series of ways to enable them to share knowledge, pool resources and support each other in addition to receiving training and skills development from leading industry professionals. The creation of a virtual network to support the development of both projects and individuals means that participants will not be affected by clashing work commitments, lost earnings or last minute scheduling.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 07 October.

For more information please visit www.eiffnetwork.com or follow us on Twitter @eiffnetwork

CREATIVE FUTURES
Creative Futures is a programme of residencies across all art forms designed to promote the professional development, vision, connectivity and ambitions of Scotland’s creative practitioners and organisations.

The Creative Futures fund allows us to offer information, support and assistance for Scottish filmmakers who are looking to apply to talent labs run by other film festivals such as Rotterdam Lab in January 2012.

Set up in 2001, the Rotterdam Lab is organised in close co-operation with various international partner organisations involved with the training of young producers as well as funding bodies and film agencies. CineMart is a natural platform for this and is dedicated to supporting emerging producers by giving them the opportunities to create expertise and knowledge.

CineMart is known as an informal market attended by a large number of international film professionals who take a look at new film projects which are presented and who do business amongst each other in a relaxed atmosphere. The aim of the Rotterdam Lab is to give emerging producers the possibility to get acquainted with the daily routine at an international film festival and a co-production market, but also to acquire as much information as possible and to enlarge their international network with acclaimed members of the international film industry.

Over the years, the Rotterdam Lab has grown into an important event with prestige and with producers from more different regions participating every year. The effectiveness of the Rotterdam Lab resulted in several former Lab participants coming back to CineMart with their project in the official project selection, and films screening in the Festival programme. On top of that, a lot of participants from the different countries have started up international co-productions with each other.

CineMart has an extended international network with sales agents, distributors, filmmakers, producers and other film industry professionals. Furthermore CineMart has over these past years built up many strategic alliances with training organisations, funding bodies, film agencies, festivals and markets in order to be able to support the Rotterdam Lab participants throughout the year and not just for the five days in Rotterdam.

In order to take part in the Rotterdam Lab, it is necessary to be affiliated with one of CineMart’s partner organisations. This means that instead of having an open selection participants are ‘nominated’ through these partners. The participants for the Rotterdam Lab are emerging producers, who should have produced at least one or two short films, and not more than two feature films. This to make sure that the level of the group is balanced and that the producers are more or less in the same stage of building their career. 
Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Centre for the Moving Image is a partner organisation of CineMart.

If you are a Scottish or Scotland based producer and are interested in being considered for nomination for the Rotterdam Lab we will be announcing our Call for Applications during October. If further information please contact: industry@edfilmfest.org.uk

September 26, 2011 – 1:13 pm Categories: Film | Post a comment

Hiroshi Sugimoto Tour

Monday, 19th September 2011
12.45-1.30pm
Modern Two (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art)
Purchase of Exhibition Ticket Required
On the door or in advance by callilng 0131 624 6560 between 9.30am-4.30pm with debit or credit card details.

Roberta McGrath, Reader in Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University, explores Sugimoto’s most recent series, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings, in a tour of the exhibition.

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/calendar/5:367/date/2011-09-19/0/event/21396

September 19, 2011 – 9:45 am Categories: Photography | Post a comment

Yorgos Karagiannakis (Graduate BA (Hon) Photography and Film 2004 and PHD student) update

Yorgos Karagiannakis (Graduate BA (Hon) Photography and Film 2004 and PHD student) is about to depart for Athens. He has a commission to make a film on the Europeanisation of the Balkans, as part of a larger research project being carried out by the University of Edinburgh. He has also been working as a teaching assistant at the University of Sussex, and has been appointed a Research Fellow there for the next three years.

August 28, 2011 – 1:22 pm Categories: Film, Graduates 2004 | Post a comment

Tomas Sheridan’s Radiostan makes it 15 international film festivals

Tomas Sheridan – Graduate BA (Hos) Photography and Film 2006

Tomas Sheridan’s short documentary film Radiostan has been selected for its 15th International Film Festival, this time in the Thai International Short Film Festival to be held between the 18th and the 28th of August.For more info – http://www.polifilm.co.uk/

August 8, 2011 – 12:31 pm Categories: Documentary Film, Festivals, Graduates 2006 | Post a comment

2009 graduates update

Some updates on several graduates from 09:

Chris Cook (class of 09) is currently dubbing a new short fiction film of his, with one of the MA Sound Design students, at Merchiston Avenue. The film was edited by Lewis Carmichael (also 09).

Lewis Carmichael and Leo McHugh both have jobs in post-production at BBC Scotland in Glasgow.

Turo Delgado Pereira is completing his MFA graduation film, a feature length documentary set in his home town in Spain.

Ian Marrs works as a camera assistant on ‘Game of Thrones’, an HBO medieval fantasy series that is filmed in Ireland. Lucy Caird (graduate of 2010) works as a production assistant on the same series.

Julian Schwanitz has just graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art.

Daniel Taylor is working for the BBC on the ‘Antiques Road Show’.

Edinburgh Napier’s cultural influence is indeed alive and well!

August 1, 2011 – 1:28 pm Categories: Film, Graduates 2009 | Post a comment

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