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Ecossais A Clermont Ferrand Scotland
was again well represented at this year’s "Cannes
of the short", the Clermont Ferrand short film festival
and market. Scottish Screen has represented the wealth
of Scottish screen talent at this event for the last six
years, either through entries in competition or through
private market screening.
Two Scottish films in competition this year were Hannah
Robinson’s New Found Land Night Swimmer and
Ewan Morrison’s Tartan Short The Lovers.
Both were very well received, but missed out on the prizes.
In private screening Scottish Screen showcased Birthday
Girl, The Lonely Widow, Long Haul, How The Sea Was Salt,
Rice Paper Stars, Daddy’s Girl, Sex and Death And
Reflections Upon The Origins Of The Pineapple. About
150 people turned up to the market screening including
slaes representatives from Canal+, ARTE, The Short List,
Channel 4, Hypnotic, Atom and TF1. Te programme was highly
commended and so was the ‘O’ Grade French introduction
and welcome speech of Scottish Screen Distribution Manager
Stuart Banyard.
Salut, mon brave!
This year Scottish Screen shared a stand with other UK
companies which was organised by the British Council.
This gave Scotland a more significant profile and led
to quite a number of festival bookings and sales deals.
Most noticeably, Beelines was bought by ARTE, The
Lonely Widow was sold to Canal+ and Hypnotic, Daddy’s
Girl and How The Sea Was Salt was sold to The
Short List for PBS.
Scott Dwyer from KQED expressed an interest in buying
films from the back catalogue. Hypnotic again approached
Sex And Death to pick it up and Robert Hutchinson of FilmFour
looks likely to programme it in their Love, Sex and Death
season. Atom sold Rice Paper Stars to Synapse of
Rio De Janiero, for licensing to Pay TV Eurochannel.
A successful week, which ended disappointingly for Stuart,
who headed, full of anticipation for Paris and the Auld
Alliance pub, only to see Scotland beaten by France in
the Six Nations rugby. C’est la vie sportif Stuart!
Celtic
Film Fest Gets Underway The
Celtic Film Festival, celebrating the best of talent from
the Celtic nations, but intimate enough to meet the best
in the business, gets underway in Truro this weekend.
This year, for the first time the festival, we will be
webcasting live on www.celticfilm.co.uk including the
awards.
In a unique event the Celtic Film and Television Festival
brings together over 400 film, television and radio professionals
to celebrate a year's work and compete for prestigious
awards. An exciting range of seminars, screenings, special
events are being lined up against the backdrop of the
spectacular town of Truro.
Other Highlights at Truro include An Evening with Jimmy
McGovern, where he will talk about his life and work and
three gala screenings of films by Celtic filmmakers:
About Adam Very Annie Mary with personal appearance director
Sara Sugarman One of the Hollywood Ten with personal appearance
director Karl Francis
Shortlisted Scottish entries in competition include One
Life Stand, Whose My Favourite Girl, Velvet Cabaret, Nan,
Chosen People, An Ceasnachadh.
Latest news on the Celtic Film festival in Truro is that
keynote speeches this year will be from Janet Anderson,
Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting and from Pat
Loughrey, Director of Nations and Regions, BBC.
This year’s Celtic Market boasts a catalogue of more
than 400 productions from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall
and Britanny available for viewing.
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