Want to get involved with @thetvfestival.bsky.social, that's Edinburgh TV Festival, then get yourself to Glasgow! Edinburgh TV Festival is holding a "town hall" meeting at the @channel4tv.bsky.social hub in Glasgow on 10th March, or Belfast on the 14th, or join online on the 18th. Details 👇
Berlin Film Festival, after hours walk via Check Point Charlie...
Edinburgh in primary colours
A Glasgow sunset from the working week...
Don't think the Scottish Documentary Institute is on here, but the film they supported Theo Panagopoulos to make (with funding from Screen Scotland) won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. It's called The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, it's beautiful. deadline.com/2025/01/sund...
Screen Scotland is funding this alongside partners. Is it your job? Would you want it to be?
cultureforclimate.scot/were-hiring/
If you have a vote in the @BAFTA film awards, before you cast it please watch MILK by Miranda Stern and THE FLOWERS STAND SILENTLY, WITNESSING by Theo Panagopoulos. Both are excellent, both deserve your vote.
Very good, took me a beat but very good.
Love that Bowie once stood and looked at the things I see each day.
How did I not know David Bowie lived in Drummond Street, Edinburgh for a short period in the early 1970s. Grateful to @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social for telling me over a curry yesterday in Tuk Tuk on Drummond Street yesterday.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/...
Important new survey launched by Scottish Government: "seeking views on how culture & the arts are currently supported in Scotland & areas for change.” Scotland's screen sector needs to engage in this process as it's about Screen Scotland & Creative Scotland...
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
A landmark in Scottish broadcasting & the first ever high-end Gaelic drama series: An t-Eilean (The Island) on BBC Alba, BBC4 & iPlayer. More in Edinburgh Evening News www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/...
This is a shocking report and raises serious questions for the BBC and Ofcom. I will be seeking meetings with both. Scotland’s growing screen sector has been a success story in recent years and must not be undermined. deadline.com/2025/01/the-...
Quality Skandi Noir set in Harris? Yeah, on the evidence of the first episode I saw tonight that just might be what Black Camel + BBC ALBA/MG ALBA have delivered in An t-Eilean (The Island). Lots of intrigue in Ep1, good acting all round, ditto script, direction, post and music. Airs from the 14th
Edinburgh International Film Festival doesn't seem to have an account here yet, but they are open for submissions for the 2025 festival:
www.edfilmfest.org
Fair play, all round. If it works, it works.
As with many films these days, it could easily have lost 20mins. As a horror it failed the "is it scary" test. Looked amazing but wafer thin. Have you seen Conclave?
Produced by Marissa Keating, the film has also been announced as part of the Sundance shorts selection for 2025.
Also BAFTA long listed, The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos with the Screen Scotland backed Scottish Documentary Institute...
www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/the-fl...
The Outrun, Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger + @lauracarreira.bsky.social's 1st feature - On Falling all make BAFTA 2025 long lists & all backed by Screen Scotland. As was A Bear Called Wotjek from @iaingardiner.bsky.social on the Oscars long list...
deadline.com/2025/01/baft...
Big day for high end TV from Scotland, @macpherzone.bsky.social's excellent The Rig returns to Amazon Prime for an even more ambitious 2nd series (season? you decide!). Entirely shot in Leith, and with a cast led by Iain Glenn and Martin Compston it is a gripping yarn, good fun + it's got purpose...
Ash from Cinora (@ashonfilm on other platforms) has posted a fairly comprehensive, nuanced, and evenhanded review of developments in Scotland's screen sector across 2024. It's 20mins+ but I learned things from it, it's worth a watch...
youtu.be/mUcq-3jh39c?...
Well you wouldn't want to stay, the drafts are terrible
Aye, it's atmospheric. Had it to myself.
Eight A9 trips in two weeks. It's a road I've spent almost 35 years driving up and down. Today was the first time I took the time to visit Ruthven Barracks...
Chap in the middle with the wee dog is my great great grandfather in Egypt in 1917. Second image was his postcard home at new year. He was a blacksmith in the army, and seems to have been in an artillery unit. Don't know if the dog made it back to Aberdeen (where that branch of the family is from).
The Rig – Speaking to Iain Glen and Martin Compston
When we last saw them, Magnus and Fulmer were being helicoptered to who-knew-where, as the first season of The Rig reached its devastating climax. While fans of the hit sci-fi series were sure to be delighted by the announcement that both…
