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Scottish Delegates off to Hot Docs 2019
Scotland will be well represented at world-leading documentary festival!
Donkeyote Let Loose!
Chico Pereira's festival favourite is now available on iTunes in the UK!
Our International Women’s Day Heroes
Our Director Noé reflects on her recent work with Palestinian and Yemeni woman filmmakers.
Documentary Masterclass: Yang Li-chou – The True Power of Documentary
We are delighted to be collaborating with Scene Film Festival Taiwan to present a Masterclass with the award-wining documentary filmmaker Yang Li-Chou. Born in March 9th, 1969, Yang graduated from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Documentary, Tainan National University of the Arts. Since leaving his teaching position in 1996, he has […]
The Edinburgh Pitch 2019
Entering its 13th year and running alongside the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Edinburgh Pitch (17th – 19th June 2019) is the only international documentary pitching forum in Scotland. It is aimed at independent filmmakers and companies developing and raising finance for creative feature documentariesand considering international co-productions. The initiative focuses on connecting, not competing; on passion, […]
Scottish Documentary Blog
With this blog we want to share our reflections and questions about creative documentary practice. We will invite guest bloggers from time to time and really welcome comments on our articles.
Toronto's Hot Docs festival kicks off this week and, as ever, the programme is looking well... HOT! We're delighted to see that lots of exciting Scottish projects have made the cut! From features to shorts to industry events; Scotland is well represented by an eclectic mix of programming. Take a look!
The IDFA 2018 programme is now live and there is so much to dig your teeth into! Here's a quick round up of all the Scottish films that will be screening at the festival.
Heads up! Tickets are already available to book for Guests and Friends and the general ticket sale begins on Thursday November 1st.
Becoming Animal
Rebecca Day recently attended the Getting Real conference in Los Angeles, run by the folks at the International Documentary Association. It’s a three-day event filled with international filmmakers, inspiring keynotes, presentations, workshops, and vital conversations around the most urgent issues facing the documentary community today.
As in past years, the main focus was the ever-increasing question of sustainability within the industry. This year transparency and creativity were added to the conversation, which made it the perfect environment to launch a much-needed discussion around the more vulnerable aspects of making documentaries. Rebecca went over there to host a panel discussion titled ‘Therapeutic Interventions in Documentaries’. Here she tells us a little more about how her work as a producer is merging with her new focus on mental health in the documentary sphere.
As you may have heard, SDI's latest offering Freedom Fields is to have its World Premiere this Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival!
The film is the first feature from British/Libyan director Naziha Arebi, making it also the first feature documentary made by a Libyan female director!
Here's a quick shout out to all the Arab films making waves and heading to TIFF this week!
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RT @screenscots: We're so excited that the captivating and inspiring documentary, @FreeFieldsFilm is released in UK cinemas on 31 May. ⚽️…
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And another JOB 👇
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👉3 lecturer JOBS @UWSmedia 👈
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RT @glasgowfilm: ★★★★ "A moving tribute to the determination of its subjects, #FreedomFields offers up hope that sport can be a vehicle for…