The Filmhouse is not a relic of the golden film days, itโs the most important cinema in Edinburgh and it was shockingly allowed to fall into the hands of administrators - it must be saved!
#SaveTheFilmhouse
Canโt believe we have won the Sutherland Award for โOn Fallingโ. We hope the film speaks to the relentless and dehumanising growth of neoliberalism while reminding us that human nature will keep resisting. We offer our film in solidarity. Thank you
#LFF24
๐๐๐ THE SHIFT will premiere in Venice!!! I'm so proud for everyone involved, it's quite a milestone for me on a personal level and I couldn't be happier to have done this journey with such a special group of people. A big congratulations to everyone!
@la_Biennale
@sftnetwork
This is outrageous. The programme was launched to support emerging talent with the promise that at least one film would be greenlit with approximately ยฃ1.5 million budget and with a global launch on Netflixโฆ
Exclusive:
None of the six projects Netflix selected through its Breakout scheme with Creative UK will now be greenlit for production.
Netflix will give ยฃ100,000 development awards to three of the six films.
Details:
ON FALLING will have its World Premiere at TIFF ๐ Thank you to all the incredible people who made this film with me. Making my first feature was daunting, but it reminded me that cinema is a collective act and what a joy this was. So proud! + news coming up soonโฆ๐
#TIFF24
*CASTING CALL*
Looking for people based in Scotland to play supporting roles in a Sixteen Films/BBC Films feature. info below. Please share. Thank you! ๐
It's a dark day for Scotland and for all the talent wanting to work here when you can't find one single scottish feature film in the nominations for
@BAFTAScotland
. If this isn't an alarming indication of just how bad things are for our industry I don't know what is.
@FionaHyslop
ON FALLING is going to have its European Premiere in San Sebastiรกn and compete for the Golden Shell!!! Thank you
@sansebastianfes
for selecting our film to be amongst the work of some incredible directors (consider me intimidated!). This is really special, so honoured. โค๏ธ๐ฑ
#72SSIFF
#OfficialSelection
๐ Maite Alberdi, Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer and Franรงois Ozon to compete for the
#GoldenShell
alongside first-timers Laura Carreira and Xin Huo.
Their films join the Audrey
Very happy to announce that ON FALLING will have its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival 2024 as part of the First Features Competition! Honored to be included in this amazing lineup. Thank you to everyone who supported us along the way โค๏ธ
@BFI
#LFF2024
In Portugal, a new โฌ20 a month rail pass lets you travel across the whole country unlimited. โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Meanwhile, in Scotland, the equivalent ยฃ16 just about gets you an off-peak trip between Edinburgh and Glasgow. ๐
THE SHIFT
Laura Carreira / Portugal, UK / 2020 / English
An agency worker takes her dog for a morning walk to do her shopping. As she approaches the checkout her agency calls; she has lost her shift, revealing the consequences of precarious employment, poverty, and insecurity.
โจ Very honoured to be one of the โฆ
@TheScotsman
โฉ Ones To Watch in 2024 - big thanks to โฆ
@aliharkness
โฉ for our wonderful conversation and thank you to everyone who has been with me on this mad and long journey to make films.
This is a sad day for cinema in Scotland. The Filmhouse was our home in Edinburgh, it was sometimes cold and the seats could be funny but it was still our home. I want to see films at the
@Filmhouse
again!
Incredible effort from former staff to reopen Filmhouse but I still find it hard to stomach the need for a crowdfunding campaign to secure the future of one of the most important cinemas in Scotland.
๐ฅ Very happy "The Shift" will be taking part in the wonderful
@edfilmfest
. In 2019 my first short "Red Hill" won the
@EIFFYouth
New Visions Award and so it's extra special to get to return and share my latest short. Looking forward to this!
@sftnetwork
@BFI
@bfinetwork
๐ฅ
So happy to announce THE SHIFT will be part of the competition selection
@GlasgowShort
. It's extra special to have our Scottish premiere in Glasgow, the birth place of our film ๐
Weโre also delighted to announce the
#GSFF21
competition films and say passes are now available! Weโll be shouting about all our Scottish and International competition films soon but in the meantime head to our website to check them out
'The Shift' screened yesterday amongst some amazing Scottish shorts
@DublinFilmFest
. So good to be away from online screenings and back to a festival in person.
Remember the โincreasedโ funding news aka going back to the already underfunded budget after announcing cuts that enraged the cultural sector? Wellโฆ
@scotgov
thought everyone would forget about it and brought back the cut! Outrageous. Time to get campaigning again ๐จ๐จ๐จ
๐ผ๏ธ We're substantially increasing funding for arts, culture and major events in Scotland.
๐ธ In the
#ScotBudget
, we announced the ยฃ6.6 million uplift to Creative Scotland funding - supporting the arts and culture sector at this challenging time.
[SESSรES PREMIADOS INDIELISBOA 2021]
Ainda podes (re)ver alguns dos filmes premiados do IndieLisboa 2021 ๐ฌ Temos sessรตes especiais dias 7 e 8 no Cinema Ideal ๐๏ธ
This means three attempts at keeping it as a cinema have now failed and clearly not for a lack of interested parties. Itโs baffling that the future of the Filmhouse seems to now be a mere financial equation.
The Shift dir by
@CarreiraLaura
. Anna, an agency worker, takes her dog for a morning walk before doing her shopping. As her groceries edge towards the checkout, her agency calls; she has lost her shift.
Find out more:
๐นOn this day in 1974, Portugal was on the streets with the military celebrating the end of the facist regime and the Colonial war. This revolution meant that, unlike my grandparents, I grew up in a free and democratic country.
#25deAbril
sempre, fascismo nunca mais! ๐น
Coming up next: Labourโs grand new ideaโฆ โจAusterityโจ Because it has been tried before to great success, culminating in the glorious present day and fantastic state of the UK economy, where 1 in every 5 people are living in poverty. ๐
Day one of the Amazon union recognition vote is here.
Theyโre making history in Coventry.
Amazon workers, not Amazon bosses, will now decide on union recognition.
A Cat Called Dom, the
@edfilmfest
-award-winning debut feature from
@willanderson_
@ainslie7
, hits UK cinemas this month โ and *someone* has the first look at the trailer ๐ ๐ ๐
It's us. We have it. It's at the link โ enjoy!
๐ฅ Here they are, the films in our ยซBorder Linesยป section, supported by our Charity Partner Switzerland for UNHCR. In this section we feature and documentary films that deal with human rights issues and current social conflicts. Find out more:
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ The Shift won three awards last night at Shortcutz Guimarรฃes, Best Film, Best Directing and Best Actress for the wonderful
@AnnaRussMartin
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
To put things into perspective, Scotland spends just 0.5% of its budget on culture, while the average for European countries is 1.5%. Let that sink in.
๐จExclusive:
@CreativeScots
warns Holyrood of the prospect of โsignificant job lossesโ & years of โmanaged declineโ after being targeted for new cuts - as industry leaders raise fears of โdevastatingโ funding decisions looming.๐จ
Full story:
@TheScotsman
Unbelievable. This is one of the key art funding programmes in Scotland and itโs being closed down indefinitely. It will also affect the most vulnerable already, freelance and self-employed artists. Terrible news. Scottish artists deserve more from
@scotgov
๐ ANNOUNCING the 59 global short films in LSFF 2021 competition, new cash prizes and our international jury - pioneering British-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah; โinternationally revered, intersexed doyenneโ of the arts Vaginal Davis + curator
@jasonryle
After such a terrible month for film in Edinburgh, itโs quite an hopeful sight to see a new restored cinema about to open in my hometown in Porto. Cinema is alive!
Yesterday at a retrospective of my work at the beautiful cinema Batalha in Porto. Pretty special to have a new cinema in my hometown. Thank you Batalha and
@anafdavid
for the invitation โค๏ธ
Fed up of having to beg to keep the bare minimum of arts and culture alive in Edinburgh and yet here we are againโฆ Preserve Summerhall (
@Summerhallery
) as a Cultural Hub in Edinburgh - Sign the Petition!
Thank you to the
@GlasgowShort
for the invite. The full Q&A session is now available in their platform and you can still watch 'The Shift' until the end of the week ๐ฅ
You can now watch my first short "Red Hill" with Billy Mack on
@BBCiPlayer
as part of
@BBCScotland
series Next Big Thing. The film was done without funding but with the generosity of everyone who was involved. I have fond memories of making it โค๏ธ
@EIFFYouth
Films by women writer-directors including Rose Glass, Sarah Gavron, Chloรฉ Zhao and Emerald Fennell have scored the most nominations for the 41st London Criticsโ Circle Film Awards.
The winner of the inaugural Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, decided on by an audience vote and funded by The Connery Foundation is: The Ceremony, directed by
@jackkingfilm
.
This is so upsetting. Summerhall is one of the best art venues in Edinburgh and itโs now up for sale and at risk of becoming student accommodation. We canโt lose
@Summerhallery
.
๐ฅ A new selection for THE SHIFT! ๐ฅ Our short will be taking part in the the International Short Film Competition at this year's
@ZGfilmfestival
. Check out their programme here:
I want to extend my thanks to the jury and everyone involved in this amazing festival. This award is shared with our incredible cast, and crew who brought this film to life.
๐จ Breaking: Student housing, offices or a โboutique hotelโ are being touted as potential development options for Summerhall as the Edinburgh arts village is put up for sale on the open market by its owners.๐จ
@Summerhallery
@TheScotsman
@scotsman_arts
Can private companies please stop asking emerging talent to exhibit their films for free? No, it's not good for exposure and profile. It's good for you to run a marketing campaign disguised as community engagement.
#payartists
I'm beyond ecstatic that RED HILL was selected to the
@Clermont_Court
as part of the 31st International Competition! It's a festival I've always admired and it's a privilege to show my film there along with so many great projects and filmmakers.
#ClermontFF19