STOP PRESS: Blackbird chosen as Best of the Fest, screening Sunday 30th June. http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/best-of-the-fest
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (19 - 30 June) will showcase emerging filmmakers from The London Film School.
BLACKBIRD, first feature from MA Filmmaking graduate Jamie Chambers, will have its world premiere in the Michael Powell Award Competition Section. Other LFS graduates involved with the film are producer James Barrett, DoP/co-scriptwriter John Craine and co-scriptwriter Robyn Pete (MA Screenwriting). LFS tutor Margaret Glover is one of the Executive Producers. Click here for the Facebook page.
Also selected as part of the Shorts: Creative Skillset Film Academies "Discover the British Directors of Tomorrow" programme on 29th June is 5th term film DINNER AND A MOVIE, directed by Ben Aston. Other LFS students with key roles are Maria Hummer (writer), Tolulope Itegboje (Producer), Michael Dorgan (Director of Photography), Elsa Bauverd (Editor), Daniel Zafer (Camera Operator), Janina Vilsmaier (Production Designer)
. The film has also been selected by Palm Springs International Shortsfest, London Short Film Festival, Screentest 2013 (Nominated Best Film, Best Comedy, Best Production Design), Monstronale Fest, UNI Shorts - International Student Film Festival. Click here for the Facebook page.
The film was part of the LFS Media Funded Clear View program and was the first 5th term film shot on Alexa.
MA Screenwriting graduate Adam Dewar has been selected for the festival's Talent Lab. More info here.
25 June, 20:50 at Filmhouse 1 and 27 June, 18:25 at Cineworld 3
BLACKBIRD
Jamie Chambers / UK /2013 /90 mins
Young ballad singer Ruadhan watches in distress as the traditional fabric of life in his small Scottish village is inexorably eroded. With fish dying and no jobs on land, the young people are escaping to the cities. Meanwhile, the old people of the town, to whom Ruadhan feels closest and whose traditions he wants to preserve, are dying off. A rich, delicate, and powerful film with superb cinematography and a stirring soundtrack filled with traditional ballad singing.
Cast: Andrew Rothney, Scarlett Mack, Patrick Wallace, Sheila Stewart, Norman Maclean, Margaret Bennett
Cast: Andrew Rothney, Scarlett Mack, Patrick Wallace, Sheila Stewart, Norman Maclean, Margaret Bennett
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29 June 12.00 at Filmhouse 3.
Shorts: Creative Skillset Film Academies
Discover the British directors of tomorrow.
DINNER AND A MOVIE
Directed by Ben Aston
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