Hot Docs 2013 Line Up of Scottish Films: Screening times and Q&As with filmmakers I AM BREATHING The thin space between life and death. dir. Emma Davie & Morag McKinnon (IDFA Competition, True/False, EIFF) Fri, Apr 26 6:30 PM Scotiabank Theatre, Cinema 4 Q&A Emma Davie Sat, Apr 27 4:00 …
UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL Friday 15th March 2013 00:01hrs I AM BREATHING to screen as part of the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival, kicking off a Global Screening Day to raise awareness of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) I Am Breathing will raise awareness to mark Motor Neurone Disease Global Awareness …
Congratulations to the 11 filmmakers who have been short-listed to develop their projects through Bridging the Gap! They have now two months and two intense training workshops ahead of them to get their project ready for the commissioning pitch in early February 2013.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences published a list which includes The Perfect Fit, a Scottish short film directed by Tali Yankelevich and produced by the Scottish Documentary Institute The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) announced an unprecedented number of Scottish documentaries in its programme. Edinburgh – …
The Edinburgh International Festival and the Scottish Documentary Institute, in association with the Edinburgh International Film Festival has produced three new short films to be premiered at each of the three plenary sessions of the Edinburgh International Culture Summit. The films have been supported by Creative Scotland. The three films, …
Week-long release is a requirement to be eligible for Oscar® nominations The award-winning Scottish short documentaries Cutting Loose by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall, Jimmy by Martin Smith, and The Perfect Fit by Tali Yankelevich have been selected for the prestigious DocuWeeks™ and will screen from 3-9 August in New York. DocuWeeks™ host week-long …
This year, documentaries at the Edinburgh International Film Festival are not locked away in their own category. While it’s nice to see that they’re included across all categories, they can be a bit tricky to spot in the programme. So here’s a list of all documentaries for you to choose …
FUTURE MY LOVE, by Bridging the Gap Alumni Maja Borg is nominated for this year’s prestigious Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival. Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom. World Premiere on Thurs 21st June.
In 2006, novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow described how ‘technology giveth and technology taketh’; that for every hopeful revolution brought by our networked world there’s a downside, and for every peril, there’s potential. A nice illustration of the idea: running a search to find the article where I first read this quote gives me page after page of result […]
Yasmin Fedda is a filmmaker, Bridging The Gap alumna, PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, and organiser of the REEL IRAQ festival beginning on 21 March 2013. On 21 March 2003 a US and UK coalition invaded Iraq, under the premise of freeing it from its then dictator Saddam Hussein. On the same day, I found out I was accepted to do a masters in visual ant […]
Sabine Hellmann is a German-born filmmaker who lives in Edinburgh. Sabine pitched her first feature documentary The Brink of Extinction at Interdoc 2012 together with Adam Barnett who also is an Edinburgh-based filmmaker and editor. After graduating in Germany with a 40-minute documentary on the use of GMO crops, Sabine moved to Scotland for an internship wi […]
Su Bainbridge works with Glasgow-based Aconite Productions, making international documentary films which bring stories of global significance to the world stage. She took part in Interdoc Scotland 2012. Passionate about making films, Su has years of experience spanning documentaries, drama, commercials, music and arts. Su has worked as a Production Manager, […]