If you're at a loose end this weekend and are anywhere near Inverness you could do a lot worse than checking out their film festival. Personally I'm skint after returning from a week at Cork's fest (write-up to follow!) otherwise I'd have thought about it myself. There are a lot of Scottish offerings being served up, summarised in brief below.
There's the Scottish premiere of VALHALLA RISING, which isn't due for release until March so that's a nice opportunity for an early look at this Scottish-set Viking movie.
ONE NIGHT IN EMERGENCY, the new BBC drama from the writer of Blackwatch, Gregory Burke, will get a rare big screen outing which looks like a nicer way to see it than on TV and it boasts a veritable who's who of Scottish acting talent in its cast.
Scottish indie flick ONE DAY REMOVALS follows up its Aberdeen screening with another outing in the North of Scotland - given the limited distribution opportunities for such films you probably shouldn't miss your chance to see it in the cinema.
DARK NATURE is described as a "modern eco-thriller" set in the Highlands though I confess I know nothing about this one. More info and a trailer is available at the film's website.
There are also a number of Scottish shorts screening, many of them already having picked up prizes on the festival circuit. A number of them precede screenings of various films in the programme, while there are a separate screenings for ECHO WALL, THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES and a couple of collections of the numerous shorts shown at other films, which include SALTMARK, STEEL HOMES, POLLPHAIL, PETER IN RADIOLAND and SIUBHLACHAN among others.
There's also a retrospective devoted to the late great Bill Douglas, so don't miss this chance to see his trilogy, the acclaimed COMRADES or a couple of Douglas-related documentaries.
Other special events include David Allison's Scottish-themed performance of NOSFERATU, masterclasses with Scottish director Richard Jobson and effects man Tom Lauten and some events aimed at aspiring filmmakers.
See the website for more information.
There's the Scottish premiere of VALHALLA RISING, which isn't due for release until March so that's a nice opportunity for an early look at this Scottish-set Viking movie.
ONE NIGHT IN EMERGENCY, the new BBC drama from the writer of Blackwatch, Gregory Burke, will get a rare big screen outing which looks like a nicer way to see it than on TV and it boasts a veritable who's who of Scottish acting talent in its cast.
Scottish indie flick ONE DAY REMOVALS follows up its Aberdeen screening with another outing in the North of Scotland - given the limited distribution opportunities for such films you probably shouldn't miss your chance to see it in the cinema.
DARK NATURE is described as a "modern eco-thriller" set in the Highlands though I confess I know nothing about this one. More info and a trailer is available at the film's website.
There are also a number of Scottish shorts screening, many of them already having picked up prizes on the festival circuit. A number of them precede screenings of various films in the programme, while there are a separate screenings for ECHO WALL, THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES and a couple of collections of the numerous shorts shown at other films, which include SALTMARK, STEEL HOMES, POLLPHAIL, PETER IN RADIOLAND and SIUBHLACHAN among others.
There's also a retrospective devoted to the late great Bill Douglas, so don't miss this chance to see his trilogy, the acclaimed COMRADES or a couple of Douglas-related documentaries.
Other special events include David Allison's Scottish-themed performance of NOSFERATU, masterclasses with Scottish director Richard Jobson and effects man Tom Lauten and some events aimed at aspiring filmmakers.
See the website for more information.
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