SDI NEWSLETTER 23.1.2013
On a mission to put new Scottish documentary on the map, we’re quite pleased with the way 2013 is shaping up. We’ll bring our films to where you are:
FUTURE MY LOVE will screen at the Göteborg International Film Festival this weekend, also competing for the Swedish Church Film Prize. There are very few tickets left! Maja Borg’s film is also going to tour 11 Mexican states as part of Ambulante from February. In Dazed & Confused magazine, “cinephile extraordinaire” Mark Cousins just called FUTURE MY LOVE:
“a passionate, inventive epistle about the end of days. It’s a rare, lovely, generous, caring, hurt, recovering film, like Adam Curtis meets Star Trek. I loved it.”
I AM BREATHING, “among the year’s most moving films” according to the Hollywood Reporter, will have its Nordic premiere at Doc Point Helsinki this weekend, with Emma Davie in attendance. We’re also gearing up for worldwide screenings around the Global MND/ALS Awareness Day on 21 June. Can you volunteer?
PABLO’S WINTER will have its US and UK premieres in February, as one of two opening films of Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art in New York followed by the Glasgow Film Festival. Chico Pereira’s film has previously only been shown at IDFA in Amsterdam and DOK Leipzig – and won awards at both festivals.
STEM CELL REVOLUTIONS, still enjoying a lot of attention as two scientists in the film just got the Nobel Prize, will come to the Glasgow Film Theatre next week, on 28 January followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Amy Haridie and science producer Clare Blackburn, and again on 30 January.
Our short films keep touring as well, with POUTERS winning the C4 Alpha Fund/Sheffield Doc/Fest Award for best documentary at the London Short Film Festival, TAKEAWAY screening with JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI in Glasgow as we speak, and Oscar-shortlisted THE PERFECT FIT is screening with BALLROOM DANCER at GFT next week.
CUTTING LOOSE, THE PERFECT FIT, and JIMMY will all show at the Reframe Peterborough International Film Festival in Canada this weekend. Of the 2012 Bridging the Gap crop, POUTERS and POLARIS have been selected for the Glasgow Short Film Festival next month.
On the training front, you’ll have four weeks left to send your application for Interdoc Scotland and we’ll soon post some portraits of former Interdoc participants on our blog, following our series of interviews with Bridging the Gap alumnae.
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