Podcasts about edinburgh film festival

Naomi Waring started out writing for the theatre and was part of the young writer's program at the Royal Court, an invite-only group with Stacy Gregg and Alice Birch with her first play showing at London's BAC. Her first film Little Ones, an autobiographical documentary was supported by Film London and the Kevin Spacey Foundation and went to various international festivals. She holds an MA degree from the London Film School and her graduation film won best short film and screened at top BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals. Her work is usually set in working-class communities and is influenced by social realism, with a particular interest in youth culture and the female perspective. In 2019 Naomi was selected for Bela Tarr's directing workshop, where she developed and shot the film Ascend, The film got screened at Locarno Film Festival as part of the anthology Under the God. She was also selected for the Encounters Widening the Lens and Go Shorts writing program as well as mentoring by Raising Films in 2016 at The Edinburgh Film Festival. In 2020 Naomi was commissioned by BBC N.I and Screen N.I to shoot a short film, Ode, which was screened on BBC Arts, BBC Iplayer, and various international film festivals, such as Aesthetica, Dublin Film Festival, Uppsala, and Underwire. She is currently shadowing director, Alex Winkler on the HETV series Mary and George. Naomi is currently developing her debut feature film: which was shortlisted for the Torino Script Lab and LIM. Naomi is a visiting lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and GSA teaching screen Acting on the BA acting course. Other clients include Hatch Films, The Paper Birds, The Round House, The Lyric Hammersmith, and ISSA. Her Films have screened at BBC I Player, Dublin Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Galway Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Manchester International Film Festival, Underwire, Aesthetica, Locarno Film Festival, Kerry International Film Festival, Richard Harris International Film Festival, Shiny winner, Off Line Best International Short, Finalist European Cinematography Awards.

The independent filmmaker based in Salt Lake City, Utah has created his own very distinct and unique style of filmmaking. In 2013, Indiewire proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don't Know — But Should."[5] Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like Sundance, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute in London, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.[6] Harris taught film and screenwriting classes at the University of Utah and worked as a documentarian and television journalist. He wrote and directed six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one-hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC, and others.[6] In 1991, he wrote and directed the comedy Rubin and Ed, in which Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman wander the desert looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat.  In 2001 he released The Beaver Trilogy,  The Movie he has received the most critical acclaim and world wide attention. Harris has  also written three books: The Wild Goose Chronicles, Fate Is A Hairy Rodent, and Mondo Utah.[10]

Anna Bogutskaya has studied thousands of horror films and books.  In this interview we talk to Anna about the role of the monster and how writers can harness primal emotions to tell captivating stories. We also dive into her process for pitching and writing nonfiction books.*ABOUT ANNA BOGUTSKAYA Anna Bogutskaya is a freelance critic, author, film programmer and creative producer. She writes for BBC Culture, Guardian, MUBI, the Face and TimeOut, amongst others, and programmes films for BFI, Edinburgh Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. She produces and hosts The Final Girls podcast. She's the author of Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate and Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold On Us.*RESOURCES & LINKSUnlikeable Female CharactersFeeding the MonsterThe Final Girls: A Horror Film PodcastThe BabadookIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoAdmit OneDanse Macabre by Stephen KingHouse of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.For free writing sessions, join free Writers' Hours: writershour.com.*FOLLOW LONDON WRITERS' SALONTwitter: twitter.com/​​WritersSalonInstagram: instagram.com/londonwriterssalonFacebook: facebook.com/LondonWritersSalonIf you're enjoying this show, please rate and review this show!

Sherwood writer James Graham argues that TV has a problem with working class representation, both in front of and behind the screen, as he delivers this year's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Sherwood Series 2 starts on BBC1 on Sunday. Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, on his new stand alone novel set in Edinburgh, The Winds from Further West.Kirsty looks at the growing interest in the Scottish artist Wilhemina Barns Graham. She is joined by Scottish art expert Alice Strang and film-maker Mark Cousins, whose documentary about the modernist pioneer, A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, is at the Edinburgh Film Festival before nationwide release. A new children's book is also published this week: Wilhemina Barns-Graham, written by Kate Temple and illustrated by Annabel Wright. Presenter: Kirsty Wark Producer: Timothy Prosser

On the latest episode of The CineSkinny, we take a look at the blistering Kneecap, an irresistible piece of myth-making from the firebrand Belfast rap trio of the same name. The film follows best friends, drug dealers and wannabe rappers Liam and Naoise (also known as Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap) as they avoid the Belfast ‘peelers' and a group of ex-paramilitaries out to get them before teaming up with local music teacher JJ, who helps hone their sound as their producer, DJ Próvai. The film's got wildly inventive visuals, a razor-sharp political message and enough drug-fulled energy to power the sun.  Elsewhere on the show, we hear about Alien: Romulus, the 79th film in the Alien franchise (at least it feels like it), which helped kick off this year's Edinburgh Film Festival. And inspired by the rebellious antics of Kneecap, we discuss our favourite rebels in cinema, from Nae Pasaran to the hot fox in Disney's Robin Hood. TIMESTAMPS: What we've been watching: Longlegs and lots of Fringe shows (1:57) Alien: Romulus review (12:00) Kneecap review (19:41) Our favourite rebellions in film: Nae Pasaran, School of Rock, A Fistful of Dynamite, Robin Hood and Andor (45:55) Recorded at EHFM's Ground Floor HQ in Leith. Go there, get a coffee and see radio/audio in action, @groundfloor__ Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Kirsty Wark reviews highlights from the Edinburgh Festival, joined by critics Ian Rankin, Chitra Ramaswamy and Dominic Maxwell. They discuss two adaptations of Amy Liptrot's bestselling memoir about addiction, The Outrun. The film version opens the Edinburgh Film Festival tonight and stars Saoirse Ronan in the lead. The stage play The Outrun is a Royal Lyceum Theatre production for the Edinburgh International Festival. Gwyneth Paltrow's skiing incident and subsequent trial has been turned into two different musicals - I Wish You Well, starring Diana Vickers as the Hollywood star, and Gwyneth Goes Skiing. Dominic Maxwell, The Times theatre and comedy critic, gives his verdict on the funniest comedians at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. And they discuss Rebels and Patriots, a play about young soldiers in the IDF, a British Israeli Palestinian co-production. Presenter: Kirsty Wark Producer: Timothy Prosser

The Edinburgh Festivals are back, baby, and there's none more relevant to this podcast than the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Ahead of opening night, Peter, Ellie, Anahit and Jamie discuss Nathan Silver's Between The Temples, Alice Lowe's Timestalker, and Maryam Moqadam and Behtash Sanaeeha's My Favourite Cake.  Because it's Festival time, we also make some Fringe recommendations, forget people's names repeatedly (pre-emptive apologies to Carol Kane) and come up with daring new ways of counting up to five. It's wild, it's feral, and it's only getting hotter, it's The Cineskinny. TIMESTAMPS: Edinburgh Film Festival first thoughts (1:35) Between The Temples review (6:45) Timestalker review (23:00) My Favourite Cake review (33:20) Our Edinburgh Fringe picks (45:55) EIFF, 15-21 Aug, programme and tickets: https://www.edfilmfest.org/ Recorded at Codebase, Peter's apologies for any weirdness on the audio. EHFM's Ground Floor HQ is now open, go get a coffee and see radio/audio in action, @groundfloor__ Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This summer, EOH is heading to the Edinburgh Film Festival! In this bonus episode, Mike chats to festival director Paul Ridd and producer Emma Boa about the line-up of horror movie premieres, including ALIEN ROMULUS, Damien Mc Carthy's ODDITY, Alice Lowe's TIMESTALKER and more... MIDNIGHT CATEGORY LINE-UP: Thursday 15 Aug - ALIEN: ROMULUS (Fede Alvarez, US 126') UK Premiere *Opening Night Friday 16 Aug - ODDITY (Damian McCarthy, Ireland 98') UK Premiere + ONE MORE ROUND (Zach Magid, Andrew Tyrell, US 12') UK Premiere  Sat 17 Aug - SUNRAY (James Clarke, Daniel Shephard, UK 115') World Premiere + MEAT PUPPET (Eros V, UK 12') UK Premiere  Sun 18 Aug - BIRDEATER (Jack Clark, Jim Weir, Australia 113') UK Premiere + MAKE ME A PIZZA (Talia Shea Levin, US 12') UK Premiere  Mon 19 Aug - KING BABY (Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing, UK 88') UK Premiere + DUCK (Rachel Maclean, Scotland 17')  Tues 20 Aug - THE SUBSTANCE (Coralie Fargeat, US 140') UK Premiere *Closing Night    OTHERS RECOMMENDATIONS:    Gaspar Noe presents SUSPIRIA (1977)    Alice Lowe's TIMESTALKER - UK PREMIERE 

On this week's podcast, the gang review two great new films with very different perspectives on the trans experience – Levan Akin's Crossing, and Jane Schonebrun's I Saw The TV Glow. Jamie gives his first thoughts on the EIFF programme, we all pitch in on The Bear season three (crossfade one more time, I dare you, I double dare you mother-), plus a few more bits and bobs. Massive shout-out to EHFM, on our final visit to their venerable Summerhall studio. Next time you hear us, we'll be in another studio (probably the new EHFM one, timelines permitting). ehfm.live, the only good radio station. GFT's CROSSING COFFEE AFTERNOON WITH OTTOMAN COFFEEHOUSE: https://www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/crossing TIMESTAMPS: What We've Been Watching - The Bear, Maxxxine, Problemista (1:20) Crossing review (13:20) I Saw The TV Glow review (25:10) Edinburgh Film Festival first thoughts (44:30) Follow the team on Twitter @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq @lew_rob_, get us on Twitter, Instagram, Letterboxd and TikTok @thecineskinny, email us at cineskinny@theskinny.co.uk; recorded at EHFM, Summerhall – ehfm.live Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Ayesha Hazarika sits in for Jane today and she pulls back the curtain on the House of Lords - much to Fi's delight. They also chat abattoirs (again), online dating and the joys of Coatbridge. Plus, Jane speaks to comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti. 'Whose Face Is It Anyway' will be at Edinburgh Fringe Festival next month and her film 'Sunlight' will premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival on the 17th of August. Our next book club pick has been announced! 'Missing, Presumed' is by Susie Steiner. If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio.Follow us on Instagram! @janeandfiPodcast Producer: Eve SalusburyExecutive Producer: Rosie Cutler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edward Dick trained as a theatre director with Cheek by Jowl, and has directed acclaimed theatre and opera productions across the UK and abroad. Edward's first short film, An Act of Love, starring Stephen Mangan and Gina McKee, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2010 and has played at festivals around the world. His second short That Woman was also successful on the festival circuit and led to his first project for television, A Little Cracker for Hillbilly / Sky 1. In 2016 he was invited to take part in the BBC's continuing drama training scheme, which has seen him direct multiple episodes of BBC One dramas Holby City and Doctors, receiving an RTS nomination for outstanding new talent for his work on the latter.  He is a member of BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew 2021 and was recently named by the BBC as one of its ‘broadcasting stars of the future.'In 2020 he took part in the Directors UK High End Drama training programme on Silent Witness, directing 2nd Unit and working across all aspects of the production on multiple blocks and on the development of the 25th anniversary series. He is presently in Australia directing an acclaimed production of Giacomo Puccini's TOSCA. The production recently played the Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne and soon takes to the stage in the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House.In this acclaimed, five-star production from Opera North, director Edward Dick writes the tension large upon the stage.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Barbara Hall - Director/Producer President at Clear Cut Inc, Documentary/TV Production Emmy Nominated and Founding partner at TH Entertainment LLC. Producer/Director Bridget Murnane is a former Professor of Television, Film and Media Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Bridget produced the feature film Odile and Yvette at the Edge of the World which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the US.Movie Reviews and More is broadcast live Tuesdays at 5PM PT.Movie Reviews and More TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).Movie Reviews and More Radio Show is broadcast on K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Movie Reviews and More Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Catch Shannon's podcast https://oz-9.com/ & https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oz-9/id1446814974Grab the illustration on a whole bunch of different merch https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/155691852?ref=studio-promoteSpace fight only graphic https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/155692496?asc=uCatch this illustration and more at www.mattymitchell.comStep into the vibrant world of Shannon, the creative force behind the incredible podcast Oz.9, boasting over 1.5 million downloads and counting. Join us as Shannon unfolds her journey into the realm of digital media, sharing insights into running a podcast production studio and her deep passion for storytelling. Discover her adventures teaching English overseas, the comforting allure of popcorn, and the joy of having wildly talented friends. Shannon's dream is to get her show featured in the Edinburgh Film Festival, and the custom illustration made for this episode is super fun, capturing the essence of her aspirations. Check it out on www.mattymitchell.com. Get ready for an inspiring conversation with a podcast pioneer!Thanks for listening and if you read this comment below answering this question and I'll create an sketch for this legit answer. What 3 animals would you combine together?

This week's guest is producer Helen Gladders. I became aware of Helen's work through the 2016 short film RHONNA & DONNA, directed by Daina O. Pusic, and then I kept seeing her name popping up everywhere and knew she was a producer to watch.  More things you might want to know about Helen:   She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School having done their MA in Producing for Film & Television. She set up her own company Gingerbread Pictures in October 2016 and was nominated for the “Best Producer” award at Underwire for her short THE WYRD written and directed by Chloë Wicks, in 2017. She is an alumni of the BFI NETWORK'S Producer weekender, Edinburgh Film Festival talent lab, and NETWORK@LFF. Her recent short films include NIGHT BUS directed by former podcast guests Jessica & Henrietta Ashworth and the Film4 & BFI Network backed RUN written & directed by former podcast guest Ruth Greenberg and starring Niamh Algar.  At the time of recording, she was in post-production on her first feature TUESDAY, written and directed by Daina O. Pusic, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lola Petticrew and backed by A24, BBC Films, BFI, and Cinereach. And excitingly, the film has since had two festival appearances confirmed. It will premiere at this year's Telluride festival in the US, followed shortly after by the BFI London Film Festival, where it will screen in the First Feature Competition.  Elsewhere, Helen is busy working on several projects including debut features from filmmakers Jessica & Henrietta Ashworth, Astrid Thorvaldsen, Morayo Akande and Zoe Alker. We talk about how Helen discovered a knack for producing, her experience studying at NFTS, establishing a vision and a voice for her production company, the short film funding landscape, what it means to package a project, the differences between producing shorts and features, and how Titanic kickstarted both of our fascinations with the film industry…   SHOW NOTES: Watch Helen's shorts RHONNA & DONNA, RUN and NIGHT BUS. Listen to my episodes of Best Girl Grip with filmmakers Ruth Greenberg and Jessica & Henrietta Ashworth.   Read Deadline's review for the feature TUESDAY, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Buy tickets for TUESDAY at the BFI London Film Festival.  Find out where you can watch Helen's film recommendation: JUMBO.  For more conversations with producers, listen to episodes of Best Girl Grip with Jeanie Igoe, Chi Thai, Sarah Brocklehurst, Emily Morgan and Elhum Shakerifar.     

On Truth & Movies this week, DC launches a new superhero in the form of Blue Beetle. Host Leila Latif spoke to the team behind the Edinburgh Film Festival about their incredible line-up that runs from the 18th-23rd of August, and bringing the festival back after events in 2022 put its in jeopardy. We'll also be reviewing French literary adaptation, Lie With Me and for Film Club, revisiting Merchant Ivory's Maurice.Joining host Leila Latif are LWLies Editor David Jenkins and film critic Monica Castillo.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kwame Kwei-Armah discusses his play Beneatha's Place, which imagines a future for Beneatha Younger, a character from Lorraine Hansberry's ground-breaking 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. He talks to Samira Ahmed about the themes of race and politics in the play, which is set in 1950s Nigeria and the present day. Samira is joined by critics Leila Latif and Ekow Eshun to review some of the cultural highlights of the week: A World in Common, an exhibition of contemporary African photography at Tate Modern in London and Disney Pixar film Elemental, which imagines a world where the inhabitants are all elements. The Edinburgh Film Festival re-launches today, following its forced closure in 2022 when the charity that ran it went into administration. The festival's director Kate Taylor joins Samira to outline the plans for the re-vamped festival. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Corinna Jones

Film Editor Jim Page Full Interview! Matriarch | Shepherd | ThePugilist! Kathy and Mark chat with Jim Page, a film editor who worked on Ben Steiner's Martriarch, Shepherd and The Pugilist, nominated for Best British Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Fascinating look behind the scenes of filmmaking. Check out Jim's website for more info: https://jimpage.co.uk/about/Join this channel to get access to fun perks like exclusive content and private Discord channel!:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA/join#jimpage #filmeditor #matriarch New videos daily!!Official Swag https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cinemondoSubscribe for the latest movie reviewshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA?sub_confirmation=1

Life After Winning Sundance with Diane BellI always talk about not counting on the "lottery ticket" mentality that so many filmmakers today count on. Winning Sundance is not a distribution plan. Well I was involved in a project, written and directed by Diane Bell, that did just that. It won not one but two awards at Sundance. She didn't count on winning, hell she didn't think in her wildest dreams that she would even be accepted. Here's the story.In 2010, 16 feature films were selected out of 1,058 submissions to be screened in the US Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Diane Bell's OBSELIDIA was one of them. It was made for less than $140,000, it had no movie stars in it, and none of the cast or crew had connections to Sundance. And yet it was picked out of the slush pile, and selected to premier on this world stage, alongside movies that had cost 100 times as much with big name movie stars and recognized directors.OBSELIDIA, premiered in the US Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2010, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Award and the award for Excellence in Cinematography. It was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards 2011, including one for Best First Screenplay. It won acclaim at festivals around the world, including being named as Best of Fest at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature at Ashland Independent Film Festival, and winning the Youth Jury Prize for Best Film at the Valladolid Festival, Spain.If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be accepted and win awards at the Sundance Film Festival sit back and enjoy on conversation with Diane Bell.

Dallas and Lee return to discuss the sudden news that the Belmont and Filmhouse cinemas alongside the Edinburgh International Film Festival have gone into administration.

Dallas and Lee return to discuss the sudden news that the Belmont and Filmhouse cinemas alongside the Edinburgh International Film Festival have gone into administration.

Gary Sinyor is an award winning film-maker. His first feature film, Leon the Pig Farmer, won numerous awards, including the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the London Critics Circle and Evening Standard Awards and the Chaplin Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival. His next 2 British films were Solitaire for 2 and Stiff Upper Lips before moving to the US to direct The Bachelor with Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger. He subsequently returned to the UK and set up Magnet Films with Sir David Frost. After making family comedy Bob The Butler with Tom Greene and Brooke Shields, he made In Your Dreams with Dexter Fletcher and Linda Hamilton. He trained at the National Film and TV School and graduated with BAFTA nominated short The Unkindest Cut. His latest work is the sitcom Hapless on Netflix. Series 1 is available now and Series 2 was shot in 2022 starring Tim Downie, Jeany Spark, Sally Philips, Ronni Ancona, Josh Howie and our very own Mike Fenton Stevens. Gary Sinyor is guest number 234 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Follow Gary Sinyor on Twitter: @garysinyor .Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. We look forward to three of the buzziest titles from this summer's festival circuit coming to cinemas over the next two weeks. There's Triangle of Sadness from Swedish director Ruben Östlund, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes; Decision to Leave, a silky piece of neo-noir from Korean director Park Chan-wook, which won Park the Best Director award at Cannes; And The Banshees of Inisherin, which sees Martin McDonagh reunited with ​​Colin Farrell and Brenden Gleeson; Farrell won Best Actor when the film played at Venice Film Festival. All this great cinema coming out is soured, however, by the brutal closure of the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Filmhouse in Edinburgh and the Belmont in Aberdeen, which all closed their doors two weeks ago, seemingly for good, when the organisation in charge of them, the Centre for the Moving Image, collapsed due to insolvency. We discuss the devastating effect this will have on the Scottish film community. TICKETS FOR BRYAN M FERGUSON SCREENINGS -  GLASGOW: https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/the-cineskinny-film-club-bryan-m-ferguson-retrospective  TIMESTAMPS What We've Been Watching (1:45) Closure of EIFF and Filmhouse (11:29) Triangle of Sadness (27:45) Decision to Leave (36:32) The Banshees of Inisherin (43:29) Leave us a five-star review, tell your pals, follow us on @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq + @lew_rob_ Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod    

This week on Truth & Movies we're taking a look to see if Halloween Ends is better or worse than its (very naff) predecessors, whether Javier Bardem is a song and dance man at heart in Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, plus we're revisiting '80s vampire cult item The Lost Boys. We're also discussing some top viewing experiences at this year's London Film Festival, and raking over the coals of the recently shuttered Edinburgh Film Festival. Joining our host Leila Latif are LWLies Editor David Jenkins and freelance journalist Josh Slater-Williams.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comTwitter and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dallas and Lee share their experience and highlights from the 75th Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Dallas and Lee share their experience and highlights from the 75th Edinburgh International Film Festival.

This week, The Cineskinny gets that festival fever in an edition recorded live at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022. We discuss opening film Aftersun, Korean car chase caper Special Delivery, and Peter Strickland's Flux Gourmet, plus Jamie chats to the lovely Will Anderson about his debut feature, A Cat Called Dom (which plays at EIFF on Fri 19 Aug at 7pm, so you should go and see that...) We have guests! We have laughs! We had some gin! Listen along, and remember... The Cineskinny was recorded in front of a live studio audience. TIMESTAMPS: Aftersun, with Xuanlin Tham (2:10) Special Delivery, with Rory Doherty (18:00) Will Anderson interview (30:25) Flux Gourmet, with Carmen Paddock (43:50) Recorded at Codebase; huge thanks to Hamish at Sound Sound for the tech help! If you like this podcast, subscribe! Also, leave us a five-star review, tell your pals, and follow us on @ptrsmpsn @anahitrooz @jamiedunnesq + @lew_rob_ Music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Paul Middleditch has directed four feature films and is regarded as one of the top performance/action TV Commercial Directors in the world. He is Australasia's most awarded commercials Director, having over 300, with 8 Cannes Lions, 4 of which are gold, and numerous International and National awards to his credit. He was recently ranked 8th Best Commercial Director of all time, based on Lüzer's Archive. He has continually upheld a Number One Director World Ranking on Best Ads on TV, with Carlton Draught's 'Big Ad' being awarded the Best Beer Ad of All Time. His work has featured at the Super Bowl for 6 consecutive years and he is one of the few Australian creatives to have appeared on the cover of Shots Magazine. At the age of 19, Middleditch's first short film 'Light of the Blade' won Best Direction at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival. His first feature film, Terra Nova, won the first film prize in Montreal in 1999, won Best of Festival at the Edinburgh Film Festival and went on to screen at over thirty festivals worldwide. His second feature, A Cold Summer, premiered in competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and earned him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Director. In 2009, Middleditch completed his third feature, Separation City, a dramatic comedy starring Joel Edgerton, Rhona Mitra and Thomas Kretschmann, which was nominated for 4 QANTAS Awards. His first American feature film for Lionsgate titled Rapture Palooza was released in 2013, starring Anna Kendrick and Craig Robinson. Paul is the first guest on The Imposterous whose bio has been directly lifted from IMDb. This is something we're sure he'll never mention but we will be a #humblebrag in social posts of ours to come.

The Edinburgh Film Festival returns for its 75th anniversary!Dallas and Lee preview the upcoming festival which runs between August 12th and 20th and share their highlights from the 87 new features.

The Edinburgh Film Festival returns for its 75th anniversary! Dallas and Lee preview the upcoming festival which runs between August 12th and 20th and share their highlights from the 87 new features.

Welcome to episode #003 of the FuturePerfect Podcast where we talk with compelling people breaking new ground in art, media, and entertainment. This podcast is produced by FuturePerfect Studio, an extended reality studio creating immersive experiences for global audiences. Episodes are released every two weeks, visit our website futureperfect.studio for more details. The text version of this interview has been edited for length and clarity. Find the full audio version above or in your favorite podcast app.This week Wayne Ashley interviews Liz Rosenthal, curator of Venice Biennale's International Film Festival's Official Selection and Competition program Venice VR.We first met online back in 2020 when we participated as international jurors for the TAICCA immersive grant. And since then I've been following you and impressed with how fully you participate in this expanding field of VR and immersive content production. You're a curator, executive producer, mentor, incubator, CEO, and an international speaker, but you actually started out in film. How did you arrive at VR from your experimental practice in filmmaking?Liz Rosenthal: I got involved in cinema in my late twenties. I started making short films with an ex-partner. Then I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland where the most important film festival in the UK used to be, the Edinburgh Film Festival. And I got a job running the project finance market for the festival and I had to learn everything about the film business. At that time I was watching screeners of British films to include in the marketplace I was running and I found a film by a director called Christopher Nolan that had been made on no budget, and it was brilliant. No one knew about it. I then met somebody who was working with ultra low budget filmmakers in the US as a part of the independent film channel. He'd just met Chris [Nolan], literally hadn't seen the film and was asking me what great films are you seeing? He was running a finishing fund helping first-time and second-time filmmakers to make their first features. His big thing was talking about using digital video instead of using super 16. And thinking about how we could use available tools like these new prosumer cameras and later editing systems, which people weren't using at the time, like Final Cut Pro and Premiere. So I got involved in working with them and we hit it off obviously. We bonded over Chris' first film and we were very much at the forefront of using digital production tools. Then in the beginning of the 2000s, we got interested in what the internet and digital tools were going to do in terms of engagement, distribution, and new forms of creativity. And that's where I took off. When the company got shut down by the film channel we had done 13 feature films. I was excited about this area, because I thought, wow this was the place where it's going to get exciting.You and I talked about how important the internet was to both of our practices. The internet for me changed my whole trajectory. What effect did the emergence of the internet as a public media space have specifically on your practice?LR: Well, I think you'll probably get a clue from the name of my company, which I set up in 2006, called Power to the Pixel. I've always been someone who's interested in working with producers and artists and how they can get their work supported and out into the world and use the best tools, and the best ways to do that from a creative and a sustainability perspective. I was seeing the film business, like many businesses and sectors as they develop, get more and more fragmented and you get people siloed into different parts of these sectors doing different jobs. The relationship between the maker, the producer and the audience is completely distanced. And that's a real problem, both in terms of return-on-investment or impact for the producers, and also in terms of how the form develops. You've got to be in touch with the user and the user experience, or art forms kind of slow down or become irrelevant. So that really changed my practice. Suddenly you've got all these available tools, prosumer then, and now consumer tools. And I was thinking, how is this going to change the way that we make things and engage with audiences? Of course, being someone who's very much a producer and artist focused, I'm always looking at how new ecosystems have to be developed around these things. I take my hat off to people who start experimenting in this area and are curious.In the past, you've discussed VR as the result of a complex stream of influences, most specifically film, theater and video games. How do you see these influences come together in VR?LR: VR and immersive content or XR is the area that I'm now working on that completely consumes me and I don't have enough time to follow all the developments. VR has the cinematic qualities of a big screen in certain circumstances, and that can be both live-action shot 360 video, or it could be animation. The immensity of being in a whole space relates in some way to film. Filmmakers in the film community say: you've gotta see a film on a big screen. With VR it's way beyond that.And then there's a participatory, spatial, and free roam aspect of immersive theater. When you're in a virtual world and characters can interact with you in realtime. If you're designing realtime characters that are going to be interactive in terms of what you do as a player or a user then you're going to have to understand that realtime interactivity. There's also the influence of the interactivity and agency of games, and of course there are people from the visual arts, sound, and all types of interactive designers and UX experts.I'm conflating VR and XR. And I know that VR is only one set of technologies and creative practices within a much larger field. Can you briefly lay out what XR is so that our audiences understand that this is actually quite a complex range of technologies and practices?LR: XR, which often gets mistaken for the environmental movement [Extinction Rebellion], stands for extended reality. I would break XR into three different types of realities. The first type is AR or augmented reality, which you experience on a flat screen like phone or a tablet. This is 2D digital information that's layered over the real world. The second type is MR or mixed reality, that's 3D holographic information that has to be viewed on special mixed reality glasses. So for MR it's really only B2B solutions or enterprise, there's the HoloLens by Microsoft and the Magic Leap, both are very difficult and expensive devices. I've seen beautiful MR projects shown at festivals. With MR you have 3D information that you can move around and interact with, with your hands, and pick things up. It's very exciting, but you need a controlled environment to make it work. New smart glasses are starting to come out, the first big company that are a kind forerunner is Nreal who are doing deals with telco companies. I don't know if it's in the US or Canada yet, but it's in the UK and launched in Germany, Spain, Korea, and Japan. Those are consumer versions of the HoloLens, they're about $500 as opposed to about $2,500 or $3,000. And then the final type is VR or virtual reality, which completely dislocates you from the real world.Many people are going to assume that VR is confined only to a headset and involves a mostly private and singular experience, but you have really opened up quite an expansive range of ways that audiences can encounter this new medium. Layout for us the many forms and contexts that audiences might encounter VR at, for example, the Venice Biennale.LR: Amongst the other things I do, one of my main roles is curating Venice Immersive together with with a dear friend and colleague Michel Reilhac. We handle the immersive content competition section and official selection for the Venice International Film Festival, which is one of the four or five A-list film festivals. We are very lucky that the Venice Biennale, who also run the art and architecture events, but also the film festival, are very excited about embracing the medium. We have our own section and our own island where we can build up an exhibition and show all types of immersive experiences.I'll run through what that means, because I think a lot of people get a chance to see one VR project and they go, that's VR. We are talking about a set of many tools and technologies where you can create all kinds experiences and worlds. VR can be put into kind of two different categories, there's three degrees of freedom (3DOF) and six degrees of freedom (6DOF). In 3DOF, you're basically contained in a sphere. So you put on a headset and you can look around, but the field of distance between your eye and that sphere doesn't change. You kind of have no agency. Sometimes there's a bit of gaze interactivity with eye tracking or head tracking, but let's say you have no agency to change the world. You can't really interact with the what's happening. It plays out in the same way a film would. You have a subsection of 3DOF experiences that are live action. The creator shoots with a 360 camera that's fixed and you stitch together the images in postproduction.We've had some amazing 360 documentaries shown in Venice. For example, one work that's a big hit on the Meta Quest store is called Space Explorers: The ISS Experience by Felix and Paul. They make a beautiful live action documentary that's shot in the International Space Station. It's the biggest media project ever in space, it's quite remarkable. There are four episodes and it is extraordinary. It's 360 video, amazing quality and a moving experience. Moving on to 6DOF because a lot of people say 3DOF is not real VR. With 6DOF you are in a space where you have agency, you can move around the world, interact with things in the world, and be with other people in that world. You feel immersed and have a sense of presence. This is the most powerful thing about this medium is the sense of embodiment and presence. There's a wide range of different kinds of 6DOF experiences. You have single person experiences that have very little interactivity or agency, but you're in a spatial world, like the project Gloomy Eyes. This features beautiful animations and a kind of Tim Burton-esque type story between a zombie and a little girl in an incredible sort of diorama world. There's no agency, your eye is led around and you're in a spatial environment.Then you have things that are very complex, long hybrid kind of narrative games that feature hours and hours of gameplay. One of my favorite projects is Down the Rabbit Hole, which is made by a Swedish studio called Cortopia Studios. It's kind of a prequel to Alice in Wonderland and you're in this unbelievable animated world where you are moving this girl through the environment and she's meeting characters and it's just so much fun. It's puzzle game and it's so beautifully designed.Then the final category I'll go into is multiplayer social VR. This is what I've been doing over the last couple years and for Venice we had to make a completely virtual edition. My favorite platform is VRChat because it's closest to where people imagine the metaverse or this next spatial version of the internet is going. There's live theater performances and live music performances where you're there as an avatar with other people. And there are games, extraordinary art worlds, and performance worlds that can exist on social platforms or you can make a multiplayer standalone app where you can have multiple people in an experience. That's where I'm really excited about VR. When people say, especially cinema people, but it's a singular experience, you're trapped, and dislocated from the world and it's a solitary experience. I always find that weird. I think watching any piece of media that's not interactive is a solitary experience because it's you engaging with the medium. When I go to the cinema I'm not talking to someone asking what are you feeling? What are you doing? What are you feeling now? It's a solitary experience, I happen to be with other people. But in these virtual worlds you are with other people, exploring with them, collaborating, doing incredible things together in amazing avatars of your choice. Can you talk a bit about two other contexts: installation experiences and live motion capture for a virtual audience.LR: In Venice, the great thing is we're showing works that can only be shown on location. They can't be shown through a remote virtual platform. We've shown a number of these types of works that involve building complex sets and having complex technology where people can go into experiences together on site. The way this works is you have a VR headset connected to a backpack which is its own computer. This referred to as free roam, meaning you're free to move around the space and can see other people and interact with them including maybe actors, dancers, and performers. In Venice, I'll give you some examples of the kind of thing I'm talking about.Our biggest production was called The Horrifically Real Virtuality by a French group called DVgroup. They make these incredible experiences which involve actors and haptics and sets. The first experience by DVgroup we showed was called Alice, The Virtual Reality Play. DVgroup invited me to see the work at Cannes Film Festival and didn't tell me anything about. I went to this beautiful park and went through these red curtains into this beautiful room and put on a headset and few minutes into the experience I realized I wasn't talking to an animated character. I was talking to a real person who was represented by an avatar. What's happening is they are being realtime motion captured into a virtual environment that I'm in at the same time. And I'm realtime as well, you can full body track your participants.The second work was The Horrifically Real Virtuality where they led you into the world of American black and white B-movies where you met Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi shooting the last movie they did together. And it was a crazy descent that started in the real beautiful set and they captured images that you were capturing that you then went into through into a theater. We had three physical sets and we put on the VR headsets and then we went crazy down the rabbit hole into these different layers. There were six audience members and three to four actors. It was an hour long and was pretty astonishing.There's another experience I can tell you about called VR_I, it's a dance experience by a Swiss choreographer called Cie Gilles Jobin and Artanim. It was actually the first multiplayer live motion capture experience I tried and he is exceptional about experimenting with this medium. He motion captures his dancers and then there are avatars for six audience members. So what happens is you go into the experience with with a backpack that's connected to a VR headset. You realize you have your own avatar and there are dancers that are not in the same space, but you're not quite sure. You're in the same space with the other audience members and he's playing with scale and embodiment and it's incredible seeing what different audiences do.The dancers are in environments where they're the same height as you then there's moments when they're giants. And they're kind of almost playing with you. And it's an incredible experience. Suddenly being embodied and seeing other people you can interact with. People start dancing together in the scene. He has even the avatar for wheelchair users. The best way to explain these experiences is having a split screen where you've got footage of the person with the headset on and footage of what they see in the headset.In our previous conversations you've mentioned at least two critical reasons why VR and in particular world building is so important to you. One, it's potential for turning taken-for-granted narratives upside down and disrupting commonly held perceptions of our world. And two, the ability to embrace a kind of in-betweenness, this magnet for drawing together practitioners who just don't fit into any single category or role or skillset. Can you say more about this?LR: I came kind of late to this business and it seemed kind of crazy and dysfunctional and was kind of locked in. I could see these [digital] changes happening and how it was gonna blow apart how we engage with each other and how we communicate. So my natural inclination was to say hey everyone, look, this is coming, how can we adapt what we're doing to this? I have always been somebody who gets excited about the new and how it's gonna change and some people aren't. It took me a long while to realize this, that I like things that change. And change is kind of terrifying for some people. I'm not like that. I love the idea that we can adapt as human beings and change. And that's what makes me curious.I feel knowledge is fragmented into silos. And in a way we have loads of things that we can find out now because they're supposedly all online. But in way I sometimes think we've become dumber as human beings because our knowledge is fragmented. When you study now, it tends to be very specific and narrow. You can see that in computer science and also in medicine. When you look at medicine, you go to a doctor and they look at one part of your body. We are a system and we are connected to the outside and everything we do connects. And depending on your philosophy, some people will think, and I very much think this, we are connected to the universe.With world building, we're starting to build spatial environments that we can exist in, and embody, and be present in. We need all kinds of skills to do that. We talked about cinema, immersive theater and games being the three pillars. But we also want to think about how does this affect us? What is it gonna do to us? There are neuroscientists, psychologists, and people thinking about quantum physics, and there's people in healthcare and therapeutics.When you step out of your sector, you get labeled as somebody that doesn't really fit anywhere. I've seen it in people. The digital person at a TV company, or the digital person an arts organization or cultural organization or a big media company or studio, they're always the person who nobody really understands what they do. And they generally aren't given the IT and the operations to do anything creative. When there's a staffing cut or there's a strategy change, they are the first people to go. Or they get so fed up with having to explain things or find a reason to be in a company that they leave. Those in-between people are really needed. Because they help us adapt and view things in a bigger perspective. There are incredible disciplines that have been developed over decades and centuries that we need to respect and lines of thought and social and cultural commentary that is really important that needs to come into this environment. But it's about not seeing these people as peripheral people, but seeing that they are key to any practice or business.20 years ago, I began working with a variety of cultural institutions in the US who were seeking to expand their audiences through selective integration of new technologies into their programs. I experienced a profound resistance, almost a resentment, toward having to contend with these new technologies and creative processes. Have things changed? What are the points of contention that continue to circulate after all this time?LR: I think there's always this fear, fear is one of the things that drives people to do unfortunately, desperate things in the world. Fear of change is always difficult. We don't put these in-between people and really deep and strategic people who have an overview on where things are going culturally, technologically and socially, in the forefront of organizations and support them. It's still not happening because people are still in their media silos. And often what happens is people ask “what's the business model?” And you go, come on, this is the point! What you're doing is going to be severely hampered by not having the foresight and the strategy to develop your organization and practice. They're going to help you define that.I ran a big conference event that was a project finance market, a think tank for commissioners and financiers with leading artists and speakers, and people used to go, why should we fund that? What's the business model? I used to go, well, what's your business model? Because I came from film, I said, that's a destroyed business model. You cannot tell me that it's not. And you know, I'm not going to tell you what the business model is or you'll pay me loads of money, because people always expect you to just, in a networking event, suddenly explain the business model.What happens is obviously things crumble and people get scared. Then when there's money put into something, they generally rush towards it. There's always these hype curves of things and then suddenly traditional sectors go, oh god, we should be doing that. And then they may, but then it's usually a hype for a while and then they go, oh, well that was the load of rubbish, and let's forget about it. So that's what happens, they never give enough longevity or support.Are you experiencing these kind of challenges at the Venice Biennale?LR: The Biennale was amazing to support us in the first place. And that was the president who left a couple of years ago, Paolo Barata, he's a visionary in a way. And Alberto Barbera, who's the director of the film festival, who really listened to Michel and I about where this was going. And Paolo really understood philosophically what this meant and he wanted to be the person getting behind this new exciting art form. At the same point, the Biennale is an incredible organization, but divided into silos as well. I think in every organization it's really hard to do the new thing that kind of fits in-between so many things. We're in the film festival, so a lot of it rotates around the cinema industry. I've worked with a lot of film institutions, and it's always been hard. Outside of the US, in countries that have subsidy (government or soft subsidy for culture and media), it tends to be the film institutes who hold the purse strings. The government gives them their ministry of culture, gives the money to them, and some of them are further along than others, but most of them are thinking in film still, so it's quite hard.Can you discuss any projects, ideas or development that our audiences need to know. Can you tell me about any projects on the horizon that will be critical to this field?LR: It's incredible looking at these studios and artists who are making work, they're using new technologies, which are evolving the whole time. There's no standard business model for them to get financed or distributed or exhibited. And they're working so hard on all these different fronts and it's new creative practice they're developing. You know, it's hard enough making a film. And getting money for it. It's tough because you are putting together support from different sectors.So I'll talk about some areas where there have been some interesting things. I'm mad about social VR and VRChat. And I think it's an incredibly exciting space for people to get involved in. I know this is a very weird analogy because it sounds a bit basic, it's kind of like the YouTube of VR in a way, or the social of VR I should say, because you're on a platform where you can upload a world that you've designed in Unity. Or you can start building your avatars in a selection of different software and there's so much information in groups and the community. You can start by just visiting and getting into it because if you have PC you can go on desktop, but if you have a headset, obviously it's better. And a headset connect to a PC is even better. The world builders are kind of people who wouldn't consider themselves artists, but are doing these spectacular adventures. So now, pioneering artists are watching or starting to work with these mediums. So I'd say the live performance projects in the club scene in VRChat are amazing.Can you tell me about some of the live performances that we should look at or be aware of?LR: There was a work that won one of our main awards, our Lions back in 2020, it was called Finding Pandora X by Kiira Benzing, an amazing pioneering director based out of New York. This was pandemic led, so she'd done some amazing experiments and the year before we had something called Loveseat, it was a live performance for 50 people watching actors who were motion captured into a virtual world that was screened around us. So it was already combining live performance and virtual words. She went a step further with Finding Pandora X, it was a reworking of the myth of Pandora in VRChat in worlds they created. I think there's about 15 audience members and 3 actors who play the gods, so there's Zeus, Hera, and Pandora, and it was just exceptional. I tried it at the beginning of the pandemic and you learn to fly, they have a mechanism for flying. Because there's all kinds of things you can do in VRChat and they have all these plugins that people design and release into the community. So I was stuck in my flat, it was the first awful months in April 2020, and I was flying in VRChat above this amazing world. So we showed that and it was brilliant and won an award. Then something you may be able to see again because it's replaying, is one of the actresses who was in Finding Pandora X, Deirdre Lyons and her partner Stephen Butchko, did this project called Welcome to Respite. It's another performance set in VRChat that may have different runs still. We showed it in Venice last year, it's another beautifully designed world in VRChat.I want to talk about another thing that I love that we had in our events program last year, it was called Mycelia, and it is an incredible performance by a Canadian artist Nanotopia who makes music with mycelia or mushrooms in her studio in Canada. She was performing live into a VRChat world that was designed by an amazing community, it was five people from that community, the Meta Crew South Africa, who designed this incredible crystal light mushroom cave world. And she's performing in this incredible stage in the middle of this cave. They give you mycelia avatars and when you come in the she's performing live in an avatar with her mushrooms and mycelia through a very special MIDI system. And you're there in your mycelia bathing in this incredible world and it's one of my favorite things I've ever seen in VRChat.We talked about world building and I didn't answer that question about how this is really important. What kind of worlds are we going to build? And obviously a lot of what happens in these spaces is driven by dystopic visions from science fiction books and movies. And so many people who are in VR are, you know, huge fans of Snow Crash or Ready Player One. Or there's many dystopic visions we've seen of what's happening in the media, and they're so negative, the views of who we are as humanity. And I sometimes wonder, is our dystopia, the way we are now, have they been designed by artists [laughs]? Have people created them because they've seen them in books and movies? And in a way the architecture that's built, what's happening in the world, the pandemics, all these things, we've seen all these things. I think, why can't you have it a different way? The importance of what kind of worlds you build is so essential, that we think about what kind of virtual spaces we're going to be in. I'm not a technologist at all, my main reason for going into this area is because I was thinking, wow we're going to engage and communicate in such different ways. And it's really important to think ethically, environmentally, aesthetically and therapeutically how that's going to affect us as humans. These spaces are going to be really important. And there's spaces where they have all kinds of uses that help us think out ideas in spatial settings, solve problems, and embody to a certain extent, what it feels like to be in a situation, and give you some kind of insight, or they have therapeutic benefits that are really powerful. And so this is a really exciting space, the space between art and technology, our minds and bodies and the wellbeing of our minds and bodies and the world is really important.I think this is a great place to stop, with some very hopeful words. And Liz, thank you so much for meeting with us and I look forward to a lot more conversation with you.LR: It's a total pleasure. Thank you so much for the great conversation and looking forward to more, this is the beginning of many. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit futureperfect.substack.com

Charles and Graham ponder if the Oscars have lost the plot and look forward to Live at Leeds embracing the open air.  Graham can't let go of Ed Sheeran and the concept of pop plagiarism, which sends him back to a certain Moody Blues song. The duo reflect on the untimely demise of Foo Fighters' drummer, Taylor Hawkins. Charles wonders if Paul McCartney is now loved as the key Beatle as his eightieth birthday approaches. Following on from last week's discussion about where Bono is, well he's busy being a poet, it seems. Graham and Charles end with news about the future direction of the Edinburgh Film Festival..

What is it like to give up everything for a dream and what can a tragic Hollywood production teach us? Today we will put headlines aside and pay a tribute to a woman, mother, wife and a cinematographer - Halyna Hutchins. Originally from Ukraine, member of ICG: International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600), she graduated from American Film Institute in 2015. Her graduation project “Hidden”, co-filmed with director Ryan Farzad, was shown at the Camerimage International Film Festival in Poland. In 2018, she became one of the first eight female filmmakers to participate in the Fox DP Lab, which was created to empower female filmmakers. In 2019, American Cinematographer magazine named her a "rising star" of cinema as a Director of Photography. "Darlin'", a horror feature lensed by Hutchins and directed by Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead), has premiered at the SXSW film festival 2019 playing internationally at the Edinburgh Film Festival and received several international film awards. Her work on Adam Egypt Mortimer's art house superhero action film "Archenemy", starring Joe Manganiello, premiered at Beyond Fest 2020 and was in official competition at the Sitges International Film Festival, receiving a nomination for Best Motion Picture. Halyna's recent work also includes "Blindfire", a feature film written and directed by Mike Nell received Best Crime Drama at the Houston International Film Festival, 2020. Halyna Hutchins shot 30 films (short, features, TV series). On Thursday October 21st 2021 while working on the latest feature western film #Rust at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico she received a deadly wound from a shot fired by an award winning #AlecBaldwin (main actor and producer of the film ) with a prop gun that turned out to be loaded with real ammo just before the next take of a film. According to Los Angeles Times the same day a few hours before the incident a group of cinematography union crew members walked away from the set, to protest the working conditions of a low-budget film production. It was also reported that a few days before, the stunt double of Alec Baldwin accidentally fired 2 real rounds, from a prop gun which raised a number of concerns within the crew members, however these concerns were not addressed and production was rushed to continue. Safety protocols standard in the industry, including gun inspections, were not strictly followed (according to the witnesses). Investigation is ongoing with no charges filed as of now. A mother and a wife, Halyna was only 42 at the time. Her story proved that hard work and passion for your craft can make wonders and open many doors in life regardless of where you start from. My heart goes out to her family, friends and co-workers as well as all film industry workers who have suffered major injuries and lost their lives to their profession and a “The Great Silent”.

Dallas and Lee pick their highlights of the recent 2021 Edinburgh Film Festival. We also review and celebrate 'Our Ladies' which finally lands in cinemas this Friday. In 1996, a group of Catholic school girls from the Scottish Highlands town of Fort William get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they are more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition.We dive into the archives this week and share our interview with 'Our Ladies' star Marli Siu who talks about the making of the film with Lee.

Dallas and Lee pick their highlights of the recent 2021 Edinburgh Film Festival. We also review and celebrate 'Our Ladies' which finally lands in cinemas this Friday. In 1996, a group of Catholic school girls from the Scottish Highlands town of Fort William get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they are more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition. We dive into the archives this week and share our interview with 'Our Ladies' star Marli Siu who talks about the making of the film with Lee.

Back for a third time this week, and I'm talking ghost stories, but very much like The Devils Backbone, there's a mystery to solve along the way.  Certainly more Supernatural Thriller then horror, but not in a The Conjuring type way.  However in a very Conjuring 2 / Annabell Creation way, this film has great performances by the two young girls (Kiera Thompson & Sienna Sayer) as both the ghost and the daughter solving the mystery.Hat's off to Ruth Platt for a having a really interesting and original ending - I didn't see it coming, but then I'm thick.  Don't worry though, its not spoiled, so go watch the movie first, then come back here and listen to the show.If you enjoyed the show please leave a review here, it helps us grow.Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/kids-what-are-we-watching-toni-1324747You can also find us in the following places.  Subscribe and join the conversation with our community.Twitter - https://twitter.com/KidsWatching?s=09Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kidswhatarewewatchingtonight/?hl=enLeterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/kwawwtpodcast/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpy3Kz3x-EpsDqKgtGha88AThe Edinburgh Film Festival series:-Absolute Denial LinkPig LinkThe Conjuring Universe Podcast LinkWe hope you have an awesome day wherever you are, and whatever your doing.Andrew, Isla & NieveSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kwawwpodcast)

Another Edinburgh Film festival premier.  I had to stream this one though, using the Film House At Home (Link Below) because I couldn't make the time and the showing had sold out, however I'm very excited to talk about this A.I. goes wrong animation by Ryan Braund.Is it AI goes wrong?  Is it obsession?.  I mean, I love sci-fi, and this covers a whole load of topics, and ideas that appeal to me, and includes a few nods to previous AI's and sci-fi greats.  I talk about the animation and Ryan's work during lock down, as well as Iain M Banks, Pi, Aphex Twins, I fawn over twitter interactions, "Love, Death and Robots" gets a shout out, going mad and that the presence of clarity (that one's a bit deep for me!!)You can find the Filmhouse at home here - https://www.filmhouseathome.com/ - always worth keeping an eye on.If you enjoyed the show please leave a review here, it helps us grow.Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/kids-what-are-we-watching-toni-1324747You can also find us in the following places.  Subscribe and join the conversation with our community.Twitter - https://twitter.com/KidsWatching?s=09Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kidswhatarewewatchingtonight/?hl=enLeterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/kwawwtpodcast/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpy3Kz3x-EpsDqKgtGha88AWe hope you have an awesome day wherever you are, and whatever your doing.Andrew, Isla & NieveSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kwawwpodcast)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Nicolas Kim Coppola, aka, Nic Cage, has returned and he's riding into Tinsel Town on a Pig.While this, on paper, could be seen as a cheap John Wick rip off, it's far removed from the hyper action bullet fest franchise.  Actually it's probably at the opposite end of the spectrum, because not only is it about a man and his pig, its about fathers and son's, happiness, food and cooking.  You never saw John Wick make French Toast, did you?On this episode I'm talking the European Premiere and opening night of the Edinburgh Film Festival 2021.  I try to act all 'established' amongst film high society, my failed attempts to get a press pass, the meaning of success and what Pig is all about.I also think Nic will get an Oscar nomination for this.  Just saying.If you enjoyed the show please leave a review here, it helps us grow.Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/kids-what-are-we-watching-toni-1324747You can also find us in the following places.  Subscribe and join the conversation with our community.Twitter - https://twitter.com/KidsWatching?s=09Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kidswhatarewewatchingtonight/?hl=enLeterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/kwawwtpodcast/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpy3Kz3x-EpsDqKgtGha88AWe hope you have an awesome day wherever you are, and whatever your doing.Andrew, Isla & NieveSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kwawwpodcast)

Dallas and Lee share their must see movies showing at the 2021 Edinburgh Film Festival which is made up of 31 new features.

Dallas and Lee share their must see movies showing at the 2021 Edinburgh Film Festival which is made up of 31 new features.

When editor Jim Page recently tweeted about getting fired for requesting a single mental health day, it caught a lot of people's attention. Depression, long work hours, and burnout are all too common in the entertainment industry. The gig economy and being a freelancer instills fear and insecurity in creative professionals leaving us feeling undervalued and pressured to outperform and outlast. Thread. Please RT. I'm scared to say this publically, but I feel I need to. Recently I was fired from a show on a major TV channel because I needed a day off for mental health reasons. I made the mistake of being honest, instead of pretending to have a physical sickness. — Jimstagram (@iamjimpage) March 17, 2021 My own experience with burnout is what led me to start the Optimizer coaching & mentorship program so I could start to teach people to take positive steps towards healthier lifestyles and improved working conditions. After seeing Jim's tweet, I knew I had to have him on the show to talk about this important topic. Jim Page has been editing for 15 years in the UK cutting features, shorts, documentaries, and many other types of media. His work includes the feature "The Pugilist" which was nominated for the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, while short film "No More Wings" won best film at Tribeca, and "Hair Cut" was long listed for a BAFTA. Like many creatives, Jim is passionate about his work and takes pride in what he does. But the burden of the "The Passion Tax" often becomes too much to bear without sacrificing physical and mental well-being. Jim and I discuss ways in which creatives can take action on their own behalf and embrace the power of saying no. If you have ever felt like the long hours aren't worth the toll on your happiness and health, then this episode will inspire you to take control of your career and bring your life back into balance, not to mention helping you learn how to set boundaries or yourself, even if those boundaries might cost you a gig. Want to Hear More Episodes Like This One? » Click here to subscribe and never miss another episode Here's What You'll Learn: Why Jim calls himself an Award Losing Editor The Twitter post that went viral and got my attention. Jim's history of mental health problems since he was 14 years old. The division between above the line and below the line workers makes change for mental health issues impossible. Jim’s struggle with depression and how he got started in editing. The fear that comes from being a freelancer knowing you can easily be replaced. How to take responsibility of your own mental health. What happened when Jim learned to say no to jobs he didn’t feel passionate about. KEY TAKEAWAY: There’s no shame in saying no to a paycheck job but saying yes out of fear often leads to burnout and unhappiness. The lifestyle changes that Jim has made to improve his mental health. Ways that you can set yourself up for success in your career while balancing your mental health and lifestyle. How to clearly communicate your needs to potential employers so that expectations are set properly from the beginning. What's next for Jim. Useful Resources Mentioned: Jim's Twitter Post About Getting Fired I Was Tired of Putting My Kids to Bed via FaceTime Every Night. Here’s What I Did About It. Ep141: Michelle Tesoro (ACE) On Playing Chess With Your Career (Instead of Checkers) - pt1 Ep142: Michelle Tesoro (ACE) On Playing Chess With Your Health & Well-Being (Pt2) Jim's Facebook Page Jim's Instagram Page Continue to Listen & Learn Ep113: The Importance of Setting Boundaries, Advocating For Yourself, and Asking For Help | with Janace Tashjian Dear Hollywood...We Create Entertainment For a Living. We’re Not Curing Cancer. Dear Hollywood: We Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal." Normal Wasn’t Working. Ep128: How to Have a Successful Career Without Sacrificing Family | with Farrel Levy Ep136: Promoting Mindfulness, Well-Being, and Sanity In the Edit Bay | with Kevin Tent, ACE Tired of Holding it Together All the Time? Here are Five Basic Needs to Get You Back On Track How Total Burnout Led to the Most Productive Year of My Life How to Overcome Post-Production Burnout A Classic Case of Post-Production Burnout Struggling to “Do” It All? Try “Being” First. (Three Strategies to Reclaim Your Time and Sanity When Working From Home) [CASE STUDY] Why I Said No to a Job (A Great One)…During a Pandemic Our Generous Sponsors: Struggling With Real-Time Remote Collaboration? Meet Evercast As work begins to slowly trickle in again, perhaps the most pressing challenge we as creative professionals face in our post-pandemic reality is real-time collaboration. Zoom is great for meetings, but it sure doesn't work for streaming video. Luckily this problem has now been solved for all of us. If you haven't heard of Evercast, it's time to become acquainted. Because Evercast's real-time remote collaboration technology is CHANGING. THE. GAME. → Click here to see a free demo of Evercast in action! This episode was brought to you by Ergodriven, the makers of the Topo Mat (my #1 recommendation for anyone who stands at their workstation) and now their latest product. New Standard Whole Protein is a blend of both whey and collagen, sourced from the highest quality ingredients without any of the unnecessary filler or garbage. Not only will you get more energy and focus from this protein powder, you will notice improvements in your skin, hair, nails, joints and muscles. And because they don’t spend a lot on excessive marketing and advertising expenses, the savings gets passed on to you. Guest Bio: Named a Berlinale Talent in 2021, and a BAFTA Crew Talent for 7 years running, Jim Page has 15 years of experience cutting features, shorts, documentaries. His work includes feature "The Pugilist" which was nominated for the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, whilst short "No More Wings" won best film at Tribeca, and"Hair Cut" was longlisted for a BAFTA. His work has drawn praise from David Fincher, Mark Romanek and David Yates amongst others. In addition to his cinematic work, he is also a respected editor of documentaries. Show Credits: This episode was edited by Curtis Fritsch, and the show notes were prepared by Debby Germino and published by Glen McNiel. The original music in the opening and closing of the show is courtesy of Joe Trapanese (who is quite possibly one of the most talented composers on the face of the planet).

Much loved Irish actor, voice over artist and entrepreneur, Victor Burke, joins husband and wife duo, Alison Pothier and Jules Williams for this episode of IBULIEVE.  Victor shares the beliefs that have inspired his life and career - from growing up in Dublin through to his lifelong love of acting and many successful business ventures. Victor has been a viewer's favorite during his 25 year tenure in the Irish soap opera, Fair City, where he plays the character, Wayne Malloy.  He has acted in numerous theater productions and received the Award for Best Actor in a Short Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival for his critically acclaimed role in Turnaround. Links referenced in this episode:https://www.ibulieve.com/https://www.alisonpothier.com/https://www.juleswilliams.com/Guest Links:Victor IMDbIBULIEVE Theme Song:Excerpt from the composition by Deepak RamapryianSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/IBULIEVE)

Charles and Graham look back on the year that was in the arts and explore some of their personal highlights. Graham takes a look at what a new Edinburgh Film House might mean for the Edinburgh Film Festival (see more at https://www.filmhousecinema.com/latest/edinburghs-new-home-film) and the duo take a look at what Coventry is preparing to offer arts and culture fans in 2021 (check out https://coventry2021.co.uk/).

Stuart and Eamonn are joined again by writer and critic, Hannah McGill (former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival). This week - the drugs crisis in Scotland, the Scottish film industry (in light of continued discussions about on a new Filmhouse building in Edinburgh) and updates on Christmas and COVID. At the end of the episode, Stuart, Eamonn and Hannah share their personal media recommendations.RECOMMENDATIONS:Stuart: ‘How John Le Carré changed television and paved the way for box-set culture’ - Feature Obituary in The Guardian by Mark Lawson - www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/15/how-john-le-carre-changed-television-and-paved-the-way-for-box-set-cultureHannah: Edna O’Brien’s T.S Eliot Lecture - www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/t-s-eliot-lecture/Eamonn: ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ on Disney+ - www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/the-muppet-christmas-carol/6BumPfZlq5OH‘Hope Christmas Gets You To Me’ song by Lapwing - www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=l5I8jgWXxhISupport the podcast and gain access to bonus content: www.patreon.com/talkmediaKeep up to date with the show on Twitter: @TBLTalkMediaFor more information about the podcast, visit: www.thebiglight.com/talkmedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In today’s you have all the Nasty Gals together with the incredible Rebecca O’Brien. Rebecca is world renowned film Producer. We talk her beginnings in the industry at Edinburgh Film Festival to Channel 4 in its early days, America to setting up sixteen Films with Ken Loach and Paul Laverty to the joys of black cats. Elaine nearly got a kitten in this episode. REBECCA O'BRIEN Rebecca O’Brien began her film life working at the Edinburgh Film Festival. After a short stint in theatre admin at Riverside Studios she took a one week film production course and fell headlong into production. She worked on early Channel Four films and dramas, including “My Beautiful Laundrette” (as Location Manager) and the Michael Rosen inspired multi-cultural kids’ series “Everybody Here”. Her feature film producing debut was “Friendship’s Death” written and directed by Peter Wollen and starring Tilda Swinton and Bill Paterson. Her first film with Ken Loach was “Hidden Agenda” and since then they have made eighteen feature films together and many other documentary and short projects. In 2002 they formed Sixteen Films. Apart from the Loach/Laverty films, Rebecca also produced the “Bean” movie for Working Title, “Princesa” for Parallax Pictures, “City of Tiny Lights” for Sixteen Films and has executive produced for Camilla Bray, Ian Knox and Henrique Goldman. In 2016 she produced “Versus – the Life and Films of Ken Loach” a documentary directed by Louise Osmond. Rebecca has sat on various film industry boards including PACT, the European Film Academy, the UK Film Council and South West Screen. She is currently a board member of the British Screen Advisory Council. Rebecca makes awesome flapjacks. Website: https://www.sixteenfilms.co.uk/ Twitter: @SixteenFilms PAYPAL Paypal Link for those who can donate. A million thanks and love. Resources https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-women-in-film https://www.gofundme.com/f/bme-business-fund https://www.scottishtrans.org/support/support-groups-in-scotland/ https://www.thetrevorproject.org https://bornthisway.foundation/ https://itgetsbetter.org https://www.alerojasmine.com/ https://bespokebinny.com/ https://pelicansandparrots.com/ https://www.matuggarum.com/ https://sheniandteni.com/ https://lihabeauty.com https://ibereapparel.com/ https://blacklivesmatter.carrd.co/ https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://m4bl.org/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd https://justiceforbreonna.org/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud https://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/12570/black-british-owned-businesses-to-buy-from-now-fashion-beauty-design-lifestyle https://theeverymom.com/black-history-month-books-for-kids/ https://themadmommy.com/black-owned-etsy-shops/ Join our Zoom Coffee Morning every Friday at 11am GMT, email persistentandnasty@gmail.com WeAudition offer: For 25% off your monthly subscription quote: NASTY25 Backstage Offers: Get a free 12 months Actor Subscription: join.backstage.com/persistentnasty-uk-12m-free/ Or if you've got a project to cast, you can Post Castings for free: Apply promo code PERSISTENTANDNASTY at the checkout Persistent and Nasty is produced in association with Edinburgh based live-arts production house Civil Disobedience. Civil Disobedience is committed to creating and supporting queer work and theatre and art that addresses issues of inequality and injustice. You can find out more about the Persistent and Nasty project and all the work that Civil Disobedience do by visiting wearecivildisobedience.com. You can also find us on all the usual social media platforms. On Twitter @weareohsocivil On Instagram @wearecivildisobedience And on Facebook at Facebook. com/wearecivildisobedience

Charles Hutchinson and Graham Chalmers get their podcasts careers off to a flying start by discussing some of the burning arts and culture issues in York and Harrogate and general comments about the state of journalism. There is a little bit of reminiscence too as they recall an Edinburgh Film Festival screening.

Jennifer Steinman is a critically acclaimed Award Winning filmmaker with over 20 years experience. She is drawn to social documentaries (e.g. DESERT RUNNERS, MOTHERLAND & SHELIA E) and has a powerful ability to tap into the heart and emotion of a story. We explore what characters & stories she is drawn to; how she chooses her projects - examining her notion of 'ease versus pushing a boulder up a hill' and why she got into the film making industry. She shares her personal journey of motherhood - which includes falling pregnant with a sperm donor only 7 days after her first attempt! As well as the impossibility of staying in NYC as a single working Mum, and her return back to her family roots in Berkeley. There's lots in this episode from the process of shedding materialism to pursuing the career you want. Jen began her career as a staff Editor at CBS, both in New York and San Francisco. Her work has aired nationally on ABC, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, Sundance Channel and many other television networks. Her films have been accepted into many major film festivals including Tribeca, Rotterdam, and Sundance. She won a Telly Award and has been nominated for an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. This conversation also celebrates a decade since she filmed DESERT RUNNERS. We go behind the scenes into the film - from a filmmaker perspective - of what it was like to follow & film four everyday runners (including myself) as they cover 1000kms across the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest deserts on earth. Desert Runners was named by the Huffington Post as one of "The Top 10 Documentaries of 2013." The film screened to sold-out audiences at IDFA and was selected "Best of the Fest" at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at both the Vancouver International and The Hamptons International Film Festivals, and Best Cinematography at the Woods Hole Film Festival. We discuss Jennifer's feature directorial debut 'Motherland' - which explores the timeless subjects of grief and healing. When six women from the US - all of whom have experienced a devastating loss - and travel together to volunteer with children in need in South Africa. This film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, winning the prestigious Emerging Visions Audience Award. The film went on to win several other best-of-festival awards and was voted by fans to return to SXSW in 2012 for an Encore Screening. TO WATCH DESERT RUNNERS MOVIE: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/desertrunners/ (CODE: StuckInside2020)

Jennifer Steinman is a critically acclaimed Award Winning filmmaker with over 20 years experience. She is drawn to social documentaries (e.g. DESERT RUNNERS, MOTHERLAND & SHELIA E) and has a powerful ability to tap into the heart and emotion of a story. We explore what characters & stories she is drawn to; how she chooses her projects - examining her notion of 'ease versus pushing a boulder up a hill' and why she got into the film making industry. She shares her personal journey of motherhood - which includes falling pregnant with a sperm donor only 7 days after her first attempt! As well as the impossibility of staying in NYC as a single working Mum, and her return back to her family roots in Berkeley. There's lots in this episode from the process of shedding materialism to pursuing the career you want.Jen began her career as a staff Editor at CBS, both in New York and San Francisco. Her work has aired nationally on ABC, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, Sundance Channel and many other television networks. Her films have been accepted into many major film festivals including Tribeca, Rotterdam, and Sundance. She won a Telly Award and has been nominated for an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing.This conversation also celebrates a decade since she filmed DESERT RUNNERS. We go behind the scenes into the film - from a filmmaker perspective - of what it was like to follow & film four everyday runners (including myself) as they cover 1000kms across the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest deserts on earth. Desert Runners was named by the Huffington Post as one of "The Top 10 Documentaries of 2013." The film screened to sold-out audiences at IDFA and was selected "Best of the Fest" at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at both the Vancouver International and The Hamptons International Film Festivals, and Best Cinematography at the Woods Hole Film Festival.We discuss Jennifer's feature directorial debut 'Motherland' - which explores the timeless subjects of grief and healing. When six women from the US - all of whom have experienced a devastating loss - and travel together to volunteer with children in need in South Africa. This film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, winning the prestigious Emerging Visions Audience Award. The film went on to win several other best-of-festival awards and was voted by fans to return to SXSW in 2012 for an Encore Screening.TO WATCH DESERT RUNNERS MOVIE: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/desertrunners/ (CODE: StuckInside2020)

Stuart and Eamonn are joined by writer and critic Hannah McGill (former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival) to discuss the media's coverage of the Alex Salmond trial, Dorothy Byrne’s resignation from Channel 4, and a new film studio in Leith. Stuart, Eamonn and Hannah also share their media recommendations.Eamonn's recommendation: Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair article ‘A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer’ www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1984/03/dunne198403Hannah: Netflix film ‘Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution’ (RELEASE DATE: 25 March 2020) www.netflix.com/title/81001496Stuart: ‘Old School Flyers’ Twitter page www.twitter.com/oldschoolflyersKeep up to date with the show on Twitter: @TBLTalkMediaFor more information, visit: www.thebiglight.com/talkmedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Chippy Lane’s Podcast, series two the PICTURES / LLUNIAU PROJECT. This series celebrates Welsh and Wales-based writers and their stories. Each episode focuses on a new writer, a personal picture of there’s and a story they want to share with you. So, sit back and enjoy.  ‘SANTIAGO’ Written and performed by Writer / Actress Catrin Stewart  Catrin is a Welsh actress from Cardiff . She graduated from RWCMD in 2010. She attended the Ty Newydd playwriting course in 2018 with Tim Price and Dirty Protest. She is keen to write alongside her acting. As an actress she has worked extensively in theatre and television. Her credits include Romeo and Juliet with Headlong directed by Robert Icke,  Cherry Orchard at The Young Vic with Katie Mitchell, The RSC, Theatre Clwyd and National Theatre of Wales and more recently Valued Friends at the Rose Theatre directed by Michael Fentiman . She played Ruth Jones’ daughter in Stella for Sky 1 for four series and the recurring character Jenny Flint in Dr Who. She won an Edinburgh Film Festival award for Best Performance in a feature film for Euros Lyn’s ‘Y LLyfrgell’.  More recently she has played the lead alongside Jacob Ifan in BAFTA award winning Welsh series ‘Bang.’  She has just finished filming the second series which comes out later this month.  Director: JAC IFAN MOORE  Freelance director and co-director of PowderHouse, company-in-residence at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. Recent work includes For All I Care (National Theatre Wales), Saethu Cwningod / Shooting Rabbits (PowderHouse), Fel Anifail (Sherman Theatre), Nawr yr Arwr / Now The Hero (Associate Director, 14-18 NOW) Milwr Yn Y Meddwl (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), P.A.R.A.D.E (Associate Director, National Dance Company Wales). www.jacifanmoore.com @jacifanmoore This podcast was recorded in CardiffProduced & Edited by Steve Bennett Music by Grand Tradition Chippy Lane's Podcast 2 is generously supported by The Carne Trust, individual donations and the generosity of the creatives giving up their time and talents to this series.  For more episodes subscribe to our podcast on Itunes, Spotify and our website www.chippylaneproductions.co.uk

JULIUS AMEDUME'S film education began with black & white film noirs, comedies and musicals screened on TV each afternoon while he was home schooled due to illnesses as a child. Film became his passion and he made his first short film at the tender age of 16.Years later after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree (BSC Hons) in communication and technology, his passion which was now a hobby transitioned into a career.His first broadcast credit was on CANAL PLUS in Belgium and France for a short documentary about the Cinefondation award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. After founding his production company, AMEDUME FILMS, he wrote and directed three short films (THE MEETING ,THE PHONE CALL and THE VIDEOTAPE) and a low budget feature film shot in two continents. These shorts and the feature attracted a number of nominations and won awards including the Festival Vision Award, Best Feature at The 15th Pan African Film Festival 2007 for his feature film A GOAT'S TAIL.Years later he was awarded a Toledo scholarship to study a Masters in Directing Fiction at the National Film & Television School. During his time there, Julius wrote and directed four short films. MARY AND JOHN was nominated for Best Short at the 2009 Rushes Soho Film Festival and a Golden Lion at the 2010 Taipei county film festival in Taiwan. LORRAINE premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short at the 2010 Rushes Soho Film Festival. MR. GRAHAM premiered at The 14th UrbanWorld Film Festival in New York 2010 and his graduation film PRECIPICE Won Best Short at the 19th Pan African Film Festival 2011 and a African Oscar for Best Diaspora Short at the 2011 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria.Julius was then one of 18 students from the British, French and Polish film schools who were selected by the MEDIA DESK UK to help develop his graduation film into a feature film. He was then selected out of 3,000+ applicants for 1 of the 12 places offered by Channel 4 to work with writers to create an original series or serial for television. Julius has since directed episodes of BBC'S long running series called Doctors, helped create content and develop an application with the BBC R&D department called Perceptive Media, an application which changes its narrative based on your personality in real time.His latest feature, Rattlesnakes won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Pan African Film Festival and won an Independent Film Production Spirit Award at the 2019 SCREENNATION film and television Awards in London. It's lead actor was also nominated for best leading Actor and Julius was also nominated for the Micheal Anyiam Osigwe Award for Best African Director Living Abroad at the 2019 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria.Among Julius's most rewarding work is the mentoring young artists and facilitating workshops in school and community centers. He regularly teaches at the National Film and Television School and has been a judge and panelist at a number of different film festivals.In 2019 Julius was invited to become a member of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.If you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.comAlso, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: www.kweli.tv/programs/the-peopl…xton?autoplay=trueDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram www.instagram.com/damien_swaby_video_producer/Twittertwitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src…erp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorFacebookwww.facebook.com/Damien-Swaby-213805135363397/

JULIUS AMEDUME’S film education began with black & white film noirs, comedies and musicals screened on TV each afternoon while he was home schooled due to illnesses as a child. Film became his passion and he made his first short film at the tender age of 16. Years later after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree (BSC Hons) in communication and technology, his passion which was now a hobby transitioned into a career. His first broadcast credit was on CANAL PLUS in Belgium and France for a short documentary about the Cinefondation award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. After founding his production company, AMEDUME FILMS, he wrote and directed three short films (THE MEETING ,THE PHONE CALL and THE VIDEOTAPE) and a low budget feature film shot in two continents. These shorts and the feature attracted a number of nominations and won awards including the Festival Vision Award, Best Feature at The 15th Pan African Film Festival 2007 for his feature film A GOAT’S TAIL. Years later he was awarded a Toledo scholarship to study a Masters in Directing Fiction at the National Film & Television School. During his time there, Julius wrote and directed four short films. MARY AND JOHN was nominated for Best Short at the 2009 Rushes Soho Film Festival and a Golden Lion at the 2010 Taipei county film festival in Taiwan. LORRAINE premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short at the 2010 Rushes Soho Film Festival. MR. GRAHAM premiered at The 14th UrbanWorld Film Festival in New York 2010 and his graduation film PRECIPICE Won Best Short at the 19th Pan African Film Festival 2011 and a African Oscar for Best Diaspora Short at the 2011 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria. Julius was then one of 18 students from the British, French and Polish film schools who were selected by the MEDIA DESK UK to help develop his graduation film into a feature film. He was then selected out of 3,000+ applicants for 1 of the 12 places offered by Channel 4 to work with writers to create an original series or serial for television. Julius has since directed episodes of BBC’S long running series called Doctors, helped create content and develop an application with the BBC R&D department called Perceptive Media, an application which changes its narrative based on your personality in real time. His latest feature, Rattlesnakes won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Pan African Film Festival and won an Independent Film Production Spirit Award at the 2019 SCREENNATION film and television Awards in London. It’s lead actor was also nominated for best leading Actor and Julius was also nominated for the Micheal Anyiam Osigwe Award for Best African Director Living Abroad at the 2019 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria. Among Julius’s most rewarding work is the mentoring young artists and facilitating workshops in school and community centers. He regularly teaches at the National Film and Television School and has been a judge and panelist at a number of different film festivals. In 2019 Julius was invited to become a member of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. If you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.com Also, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: www.kweli.tv/programs/the-peopl…xton?autoplay=true Damien Swaby Social Media Links: Instagram www.instagram.com/damien_swaby_video_producer/ Twitter twitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src…erp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Facebook www.facebook.com/Damien-Swaby-213805135363397/

Chloe Goodchild in conversation with voice teacher Polly Steele, discussing deep listening, compassionate storytelling, self-enquiry and inherited trauma.The VOCE Dialogues offer a simple, accessible in-depth ground for poets, authors, musicians, visual artists, and visionary teachers to share and disseminate their insights about the transformative practice of contemplative, creative and compassionate communication. Polly Steele is an award winning UK based, independent, film-maker renowned for her ability to tell the most compelling and sensitive stories. She has made films for all of the UK’s major broadcasters, & produced/developed fiction as MD for Rocket Pictures with Elton John and David Furnish and for her own company In Trust Films.She is currently writing a drama series for Deeply Superficial (Thierry Lackar) aimed at the SVODS: Les Femmes de Guerres (women in occupied Paris during WWII). She is also shooting a doc feature: The Cost of Freedom with Mac Maharaj, Mandela's only living cell mate and developing her next feature film: the screen adaptation of Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams which is a best selling Picador classic. Niall has adapted the book with Polly directing. Mark Rylance/Gabriel Byrne/Emily Watson and Michael Gambon are attached as the leads. She wrote and directed Let Me Go starring Juliet Stephenson and Lucy Boynton, with Radioheads Philip Selway composing. It was selected to premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2017 and was released in the UK through Evolutionary Films. It has won several awards and is now to be distributed worldwide by Red Arrow Int.https://www.letmegomovie.com/Documentary directing work has included BAFTA award winning: Video Diaries (BBC),Tantrums & Tiaras the inside story of Elton John’s life, shortlisted for a BAFTA (ITV), Kofi Annan – The Eye of the Storm (BBC2), Extraordinary People – the Worlds Youngest Surgeon, shortlisted for the Grierson Award (five), In the Arctic with Ewan McGregor, (best Indie Documentary), Eastside Story, a revealing portrait of Ray Lewis’s controversial Eastside Youth Leaders Academy (Current TV and Festivals) and most recently a film for BBC2 on Rich Russians in London.http://pollysteele.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollysteele/ Chloe Goodchild is an international singer, innovatory educator, author and founder of The Naked Voice (1990) and its UK Charitable Foundation (2004), dedicated to the realization of compassionate communication in all realms of human life. Deafness in childhood catalysed Chloë’s deep encounter with her inner self, and began a lifetime’s experiential research into the voice as a catalyst for personal evolution and global transformation. https://www.chloegoodchild.com/

This is the first of my recorded interviews from the Edinburgh Film Festival. It was a joy to sit down with Flore Cosquer who heads up the Talent Development department at the Scottish Documentary Institute and manages the Institute’s various training initiatives and industry events, including the Edinburgh Pitch, and oversees the production of the flagship filmmaking program Bridging the Gap. SDI are based at the Edinburgh College of Art and specialise in documentary training, production and distribution, supporting filmmakers through their diverse programme of international activities and training schemes.  Flore and I discuss why she left behind a career in film production as well as the process of producing her first feature documentary Freedom Fields. The film follows three women and their football team in post-revolution Libya, as the country descends in civil war and the utopian hopes of the Arab Spring begin to fade.  Find screenings of the film happening around Europe here: https://www.freedomfieldsfilm.com/screenings 

On this recording Jim was joined by two of BanterFlix's regular contributors Darren Vincent and Caitlain Rafferty as they reviewed Spider-Man: Far From Home, Robert the Bruce and Midsommar.Jim also spoke with Angus Macfadyen about reprising his role as Robert the Bruce ahead of the film's world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/banterflix)

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has been showcasing fantastic films from across genres and around the world for two weeks and Lee Hutchison shares his interviews from the second half of the festival. Due to adverts times are approximated... 00:01:20 - End of Sentence (John Hawkes & Elfar Adalsteins) 00:16:59 - Carmilla (Emily Harris) 00:36:48 - Alice (Josephine Mackerras) 00:51:26 - Masters of Love (Matt Roberts, Ciaran Dowd, Sarah Ovens & Owen Roberts) 01:14:17 - She's Missing (Alexandra McGuinness & Anna O'Malley) 01:33:53 - Mrs. Lowry & Son (Adrian Noble & Timothy Spall)

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has been showcasing fantastic films from across genres and around the world for two weeks and Lee Hutchison shares his interviews from the second half of the festival. Due to adverts times are approximated...00:01:20 - End of Sentence (John Hawkes & Elfar Adalsteins)00:16:59 - Carmilla (Emily Harris) 00:36:48 - Alice (Josephine Mackerras)00:51:26 - Masters of Love (Matt Roberts, Ciaran Dowd, Sarah Ovens & Owen Roberts)01:14:17 - She's Missing (Alexandra McGuinness & Anna O'Malley) 01:33:53 - Mrs. Lowry & Son (Adrian Noble & Timothy Spall)

We are slap bang in the middle of 2019. And how does the movie world look thus far? The Filmotomy 2019 in Film Halftime Report is the topic for Podcast 77. And we have quite a line-up to discuss the ins and outs of the cinema of 2019 at the halfway point. Joining me are Bianca, fresh from the Edinburgh Film Festival, and Doug not long out of the Sydney Film Festival. As well we have Catherine from Shuffle Online, David from Piecing It Together, and recent Cannes attendee, Max. Plenty to digest here. Have a listen, and please keep tabs on us with SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. Film Extracts --- Always Be My Maybe; Her Smell; Late Night; Spider-Man: Far From Home; Stuffed; Under the Silver Lake; Unicorn Store; Us.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has been showcasing fantastic films from across genres and around the world for a week already. In this episode Lee Hutchison and Dallas King share their diverse range of interviews with the writers, directors and talent of the festival so far. 00:01:08 - Astronaut (Richard Dreyfuss & Shelagh McLeod) 00:16:07 - Yesterday (Danny Boyle) 00:20:11 - Love Type D (Sasha Collington) 00:31:27 - The Captor (Robert Budreau) 01:00:12 - Emma Peeters (Nicole Palo) 01:16:00 - Boyz In The Wood (Ninian Doff & Kate Dickie)

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has been showcasing fantastic films from across genres and around the world for a week already. In this episode Lee Hutchison and Dallas King share their diverse range of interviews with the writers, directors and talent of the festival so far. 00:01:08 - Astronaut (Richard Dreyfuss & Shelagh McLeod)00:16:07 - Yesterday (Danny Boyle)00:20:11 - Love Type D (Sasha Collington)00:31:27 - The Captor (Robert Budreau)01:00:12 - Emma Peeters (Nicole Palo)01:16:00 - Boyz In The Wood (Ninian Doff & Kate Dickie)

I return to host the podcast with Bianca away on Edinburgh Film Festival duties in bonny Scotland. Joining me in the summer heat are Pallavi Dandamudi, Jonathan Holmes, Jeremy Robinson, and making her Filmotomy Podcast debut, is Katie Keener. We don our shortest of shorts and head for the beach to celebrate the summer solstice by talking summertime movies. Be it romance, adventure, mystery, vacations, sunning it up, we dive into the bright and the dark side of summer films. Have a listen, leave us your comments, reviews, ratings, and do subscribe via SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher if you haven't already. Movie clips from: Midsommar (2019); Call Me By Your Name (2017); Before Midnight (2013); Rear Window (1954); The Florida Project (2017); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); Almost Famous (2000); Booksmart (2019); Accident (1967); and music track: "Feel Flows" by The Beach Boys (from Almost Famous).

Rachel is the Film Programme Coordinator at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema. Previously she was the Producer of Alchemy Film and Moving Arts Festival, and has also held roles at Film Hub Scotland, Edinburgh Film Festival, BFI Festivals and Picturehouse, and she is also an archive activist. Rachel co-founded a project called Invisible Women that examines how curators can address gendered absence in the archive through public exhibition and looks to reinsert women into cinematic history. Read their manifesto here: https://www.invisible-women.co.uk/manifesto This was succhhh a good chat, I learnt so much and Rachel is incredibly eloquent and intelligent. We talk about the Invisible Women project, particularly some of the women filmmakers that it’s helping to resurrect, programming in the age of Me Too and career pivots. Enjoy!

Black Mirror returns for its 5th season and Lee, Dallas and Kim come together to discuss the three stories from the mind of Charlie Brooker. They also preview the Edinburgh International Film Festival which launches next Wednesday.

Black Mirror returns for its 5th season and Lee, Dallas and Kim come together to discuss the three stories from the mind of Charlie Brooker. They also preview the Edinburgh International Film Festival which launches next Wednesday.

Emmy Winner Kyra Sedgwick talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks about “Girls Weekend” that premiered at Sundance Film Festival in the Indie Episodic section. Sedgwick along with creator Ali Liebegott, producers Valerie Stadler and Meredith Bagby and DP Michelle Lawler were in attendance at Sundance from January 25th - January 31st. “Girls Weekend” tells the story about when a queer daughter (Liebegott) returns home to Las Vegas for a “girls weekend” with her estranged homophobic sister and people-pleasing mother. Her gun-toting dad lets it slip that her mother’s cancer is back with a vengeance forcing her to decide whether or not she can rejoin her family. “Girls Weekend” explores the responsibility family members have to each other. It’s set in a suburban Las Vegas neighborhood and explores themes of LGBTQ acceptance, family, health, class and sacrifice. The cast includes Ali Liebegott, Linda Lavin, Amy Landecker and Ken Jenkins. “Girls Weekend” was produced by Big Swing Productions that was created by Sedgwick, Meredith Bagby and Valerie Stadler in 2017. Big Swing Productions is committed to telling stories that amplify bold new voices including our LGBTQ community in an attempt to bring our divided country together. They believe that when stories with heart and purpose meet talent and opportunity, magic happens. We talked to Kyra about what she hopes to accomplish with “Girls Weekend”, how the “Me Too” and “Times Up” movements have impacted Hollywood, her disappointment that the upcoming Oscars neglected to include a woman in the Best Director category and her spin on our LGBTQ issues. Director and Executive Producer Kyra Sedgwick is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama “The Closer”. In 2018 Sedgwick received a DGA nomination for her directorial debut with the feature “Story Of A Girl” that premiered last summer at the LA Film Festival and Edinburgh Film Festival followed by its TV premiere on Lifetime. Sedgwick is a fierce LGBTQ ally and has served on the board of GLSEN. Currently she is a director on the Netflix comedy hit “Grace and Frankie” starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as well as numerous projects with Big Swing Productions. Ali Liebegott creator and star of “Girls Weekend” is a three-time WGA Award Nominee for her work as Co-Executive Producer on “Transparent”. She currently serves as Co-Executive Producer and Actor on “The Conners” for ABC and is developing a half-hour project for Amazon with Jill Soloway and Michelle Tea. Ali is also an out queer comedian and author who has also earned two Lambda Literary Awards and her next book “The Summer of Dead Birds” is slated to be published by Feminist Press in 2019. For More Info: sundance.org Hear 450+ LGBT Interviews @OUTTAKE VOICES

    EPISODE 6 – DEALING WITH YOUR INNER CRITIC   In this episode, I’ll be talking about negative and debilitating thoughts and how to handle them. Last week I left you with my thoughts on perfectionism and why it’s a really bad thing. I wanted you to stop trying to be perfect and start living your lives. That was your homework. I have a feeling that for those of you who tried it will have given some real results. Are you aware of your inner voice or inner monologue – The part I’m talking about today is more aptly named the inner CRITIC – it’s that voice in your head that will troll you and put you down at every opportunity. It’s talking to me right now, literally right this second. It’s saying. This is a waste of time. No one cares. It’s saying, what if I get this wrong? I don’t know how to launch a podcast. People are not going to be happy about me giving out advice – what makes me so special? It’s saying Film Pro Productivity is a terrible name for a podcast anyway. It’s saying lots and lots of negative things about everything that I do, everything that I plan and everything that I create. It’s more persistent than any internet troll, any annoying idiot on a forum and any film critic out there. The film critics that think they are cutting when they review other peoples work, are nothing NOTHING compared to that inner voice that’s whispering in our ears during every step of the creative process and saying this, whatever it is you are doing – just ain’t good enough. This inner critic can be totally self-destructive. If we listen to it. THE LESSON I have my own opinions about the topics I raise on Film Pro Productivity but I do a good bit of research on them before I bring them to you so that I can bring you a more rounded opinion. On this topic, however – and I think this s particularly relevant to those working in creative industries such as film - there wasn’t much. I mean it’s out there but it’s thin on the ground, it’s sometimes disguised under different headings, but you have to dig. I found good information in some online articles aimed at women as it happens, although this is definitely a problem which both sexes have to face, and I think particularly for CREATIVES. One article details a survey that Activia did where they asked women what was holding them back from reaching their dreams? 80% of the time, the answer was themselves. There are of course positive and negative voices to our inner monologue. On one shoulder we have a devil with a pitchfork and horns but on the other we have an angelic saint wearing a halo. At least that’s what they look like in the cartoons. Each one is saying don’t listen to the other guy, whispering in our ears and influencing our lives. Of course, in truth, they are far more complex characters. I’d go for a sarcastic internet hater (the ones that lurk on forums just waiting for you to say something they can disagree with) versus a sensible guiding mentor, teacher or even a supportive parent but the visuals for them are a lot more complex. If I split our inner monologue into three different parts though: The INNER VOICE – is the positive voice that supports, calms and reassures us - born from our sense of right and wrong and our sense of goodwill, family and friendship. It gives us drive and is fuelled by passion. This inner voice should be considered as our guide. It’s the voice that says Let’s do this. Get up, brush your teeth, pay your bills, write that script, go to the gym, phone your mammy and don’t worry. Everything’s going to be alright. It’s the voice that calms you, allows stress to wash over you and that says well done, good job and sometimes, lets you just walk away. The much quoted Derek Sivers line - if it’s not a HELL YEH, then it’s a No, comes from that inner voice advising us that maybe this job or task or invitation is not good for you – It is looking after your wellbeing. You won’t ever get this voice mixed up with the inner critic as the inner critic will be grabbing you round the throat and whispering poison in your ear - but you might feel that you have lost touch with reality a little and there are solutions to that. I’ll do a future episode on affirmations which will go into this in a bit of detail. Consciously curated affirmations can act as a crutch for those feeling lost out there. The second element would be what I have talked about in detail already - The INNER CRITIC –If we let this bully take control, it will feed our self-doubt, pick on our weaknesses and say we’re not good enough, not worthy enough, not charming enough, not experienced enough and if we start listening to it we are going to stop ourselves before we even start. There’s a third part to this perhaps which I’m going to tackle in a mini-episode which I’ll release just after this and that’s Rumination. It’s like an extreme form of the inner critic but it’s not so much an inner voice, more a replaying of experiences emotions or thoughts in an endless loop that keeps you awake at night and wears away at your soul. I’ll talk about it separately as it needs a bit of time to get into, but we can tackle it and we will. DEALING WITH THE INNER CRITIC The way I see it, there’s a fourth part to all this. The part that listens to the negative voice. The silent partner that passively gives the critic an ear in which to catastrophize... You. Let’s give permission to that silent partner to speak up. My favourite example of a creative overcoming their inner critic is.  JK Rowling - Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers before BLOOMSBURY picked it up for an advance of just £1500 quid. It’s now sold over 450 million copies worldwide. If she’d listened to her inner critic she’d not have persevered and the world would have missed out on an absolutely cracking set of stories. I’m certain that JK Rowling had a few moments along the way where she said to herself – What am I doing? But she persevered, shut down that negativity and drove what she believed into completion. Support this podcast by purchasing anything at all through my affiliate links. The Harry Potter Complete Collection is not a productivity book but it's still awesome... :-)   US: https://amzn.to/2MSFBtk UK: https://amzn.to/2I5bZbh   What can we do to combat the inner critic? It’s easy to say just ignore it, but perhaps trickier in practice – what we can do once we have recognised that it is there is to implement strategies to live with it or disrupt its influence along the way. In time you will build habits that will give you back control. First Things First - How’s about you just give yourself a break? Don’t concede to the enemy within. If you recognise what I’ve been talking about where you can handle it - this podcast will help you to recognise when the critic is in the driving seat and it’s then that you can say no to the negative voice and take over. Building up our belief in ourselves and our self-worth is key. I get a LOT of fight directing work in the UK – It’s how I pay my bills - but it took a visit to China and after just a few minutes of watching the amazing Donnie Yen direct a fight sequence for me to realise - that wow – He works exactly the same way I do. I’d forgotten how good I was as I almost always work on my own. It’s easy to forget how good you are at what you do if you live and work in a vacuum. It’s also too easy to stop yourself before you start. One of the principles of good mental health is to get out there and experience the world. If you find your inner critic gets to be just too much – try going for a walk. Hit the gym. Meet a friend for a coffee. Just the change of environment can make the difference and help you to remember that you are in control. You can also defeat the inner critic before it starts by planning ahead. Define what your tasks are very specific. Plan what you want to achieve and don’t want when you start on something. One article I read said that the inner critic will make incomplete and undefined tasks an “amorphous blob of un-do-ability” which is a wonderful description. That’s what your inner critic will make of unspecific tasks. Listen to my episode on prioritising and use the brain dump technique and prioritising strategies to define exactly what is important. With a written plan you can save yourself a lot of time and give your work focus. That plan might allow you to break larger tasks down into a series of smaller more edible tasks, to effectively make them a sum of their parts. Parts so small that the inner critic will find it harder to combat. Using the techniques from my episode on perfectionism will also allow you move on. Don’t catastrophize! I used to be really bad for this. Stop yourself from dwelling on worst-case scenarios, and all the things that could possibly go wrong and look towards what is realistic. I had an unbelievable conversation with a young assistant director at the Edinburgh Film Festival this year. He’d convinced himself that no one wanted to hire him but the reality was he hadn’t actually sent out a Resume or told anyone out there that he was available for work. It’s amazing how debilitating that critic can be. His solution was to take action, and I advised him to do so. In the words of Winston Churchill – Success is not final – Failure is not fatal – it is the courage to continue that counts. Taking action is my solution to many of these debilitating situations, and to do that you need to develop Drive. A subject which I’ll commit an entire episode to later on. It goes hand in hand with the self-belief that I mentioned a minute ago. Constant unchecked movement will create a snowball effect and allow you to develop a habit of work that your inner critic will be unable to stop. One other action you might take if you have reached an impasse with your inner critic is to share your thoughts with someone else. Getting out of your own head; Like I talk about in my earlier episode on Prioritising in fact, and hearing feedback from someone else that you trust will silence your inner critic quite effectively. Talking it over with a friend will give almost always give you a realistic perspective if what you’ve been doing is catastrophising - presenting a situation as considerably worse than it actually is. SUMMING UP The Psychologist William James said “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” The weapon therefor and the choice of how you wield it is yours - You are the master of our own destiny. CALL TO ACTION Use the techniques I’ve talked about today to tackle your negative inner thoughts and you will find that you will have a more productive and happy life as a result. Next time it happens. Catch yourself and question it. Use your positive inner voice to fuel your drive and put you firmly in the driving seat. ENDING Thanks again for listening - Next episode I’ll be talking about THE PERETO PRINCIPLE and how it can be applied to our work in the creative industries. For now, though, take control of your own destiny, silence those negative thoughts, keep on shootin’ and join me NEXT TIME on Film Pro Productivity. The music for this podcast and that you are listening to right now is Adventures by A Himitsu. You can view the show notes for this episode at filmproproductivity.com/episode5 If you’re struggling with something you think I can help with or would like to tell me how you are getting on then please get in touch via the contact page on the website. 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Dallas has finally seen 'Hearts Beat Loud', did the film live up to Lee's hype? Now they can finally discuss the movie that they've waited all summer to talk about with each other. We're also joined by Bret Haley, director and co-writer of 'Hearts Beat Loud',  who spoke with Lee during the Edinburgh Film Festival about the making of the movie, representation, working with this all star cast and Oscar hopes. Lee and Dallas share what they watched in the past week and the #52FilmsByWomen campaign. This weeks top 5 list have the boys picking their favourite films about bands and musicians. 

Lee Hutchison and Dallas King discuss their second week at the Edinburgh Film Festival and share their experiences and highlights. The duo also review all the movies they watched during the second week of the festival. Dead In A Week: Or Your Money Back, Obey, The Most Assassinated Woman In The World, Flammable Children (Swinging Safari), Life After Flash, My Friend The Polish Girl, Unicorn Store, Baby Gravy, Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis, Hearts Beat Loud, Piercing, What Walaa Wants, Winterlong, Humour Me, The Butterfly Tree, Songbird, Solis, The Parting Glass, Locating Silver Lake, Swimming with Men and Laundromat.Lee and Dallas also share their best 6 movies of the festival.  

Lee Hutchison is joined by writer/director Tom Edmunds and actress, Freya Mavor  to talk about the brilliant original British comedy movie, Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back)  which had it’s world premiere this week at the Edinburgh Film Festival. the film has struck a chord with not just me but audiences and has earned a well earned spot on the best of the fest. After 27-year-old William  fails at his ninth attempt at suicide, he decides to take up a genial 65-year-old hitman, Leslie, on his offer to help out. Leslie has quotas to meet to keep his membership in an assassin’s guild, but when William meets the woman of his dreams  things get more complicated for both men. 

We enter the final weekend of our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage and we've got a bumper weekend of interviews and coverage to come.Lee Hutchison is joined by Travis frontman, Fran Healy who has brought his documentary, 'Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis' to the festival for it's world premiere. 'Almost Fashionable' follows music journalist Wyndham Wallace who has always been clear that he is not a big fan of Scottish band Travis. When lead singer Fran Healy invites Wallace to join Travis on tour in Mexico, the journalist is intrigued and bemused. After soliciting the opinion of other writers, he heads off on tour, filming fans to get their views. A delightful, warm-hearted and tuneful look at Travis, examining why their fans love them, while offering a chance to see if a critic can change his views.

Welcome to the second podcast that’s dropping on day 10 of our coverage of the Edinburgh Film Festival.I’m joined by Anthony Bynre, the co-writer and director of a new thriller, called 'In Darkness'. Anthony Byrne co-wrote this script with his partner and lead actor, Natalie Dormer. Lee's first joined by Anthony and then we have some red carpet interviews with Natalie Dormer and again by Anthony. 'In Darkness' sees Dormer plays Sofia, a blind musician drawn into London’s criminal underbelly when her neighbour Veronique  dies in the apartment upstairs. Initially, police believe it is suicide, but Veronique, the daughter of an alleged war criminal, knew she was in trouble. Caught between the police and criminals, Sofia must try to survive.  

Welcome to day 10 of our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage and we've got a huge interview today.Lee Hutchison is joined by the legenedary director, Joe (Gremlins, The Howling, Piranha, Small Soldiers) Dante to discuss his incredible career and share his advice and insight after decades in the industry.  

Launching out second week of Edinburgh Film Festival coverage, we can share this roundtable interview we took part in with Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Denis O'Hare for 'The Parting Glass'The Parting Glass is a powerful, moving and beautifully structured drama about family, love and loss, and provides a perfect platform for a series of striking performances. Driven by a core team of True Blood alumni (director Stephen Moyer, star Anna Paquin, and writer and star Denis O’Hare), the film follows a family reeling from their younger sister’s death as they embark on a journey to collect the remnants of her life. The family delve into past memories to piece together a portrait of the woman they lost.   The film marks Stephen Moyer’s directorial debut, with the astute script providing a wonderful platform for a talented group of actors. O’Hare, Melissa Leo and Cynthia Nixon star as the siblings who reminisce about their younger sister (Paquin) as they make their way to her apartment to sort through items that spark memories. In a long drive across a chilly landscape, the siblings are joined by the sister’s husband and their father . The film charts how a close-knit family deals with grief and loss – with laughter, tears and muddled memories

Lee Hutchison and Dallas King discuss their first week at the Edinburgh Film Festival and share their expeirneces and highlights. The duo also review all the movies they've watched during the past seven days, Puzzle, Super Modo, Blood Fest, Old Boys, Searching, 3/4, My Name is Myeshia, Lucid, Calibre, Cest La Vie, Ideal Home, The Secret of Marrowbone, Incredibles 2, The Parting Glass, The Eyes of Orson Wells, 12 Point Kill, White Chamber, The Great Buddha +, No. 1 Chung Ying Street, Never Leave Me, Eaten By Lions, In Darkness and Terminal.  

Our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage continues with this very exciting interview.?This week director Adam Morse announced on the eve of the world premiere of his movie, 'Lucid' that he was blind. i’m joined by Adam and actor, Laurie Calvert to discuss this fantastic and inspiring story behind the making of this movie. Timid Zel (Laurie Calvert), adrift in a city with no friends, simultaneously craves and fears intimacy. His eccentric neighbour, Elliot (Billy Zane), offers to help him try and win over dancer Jasmine using an experimental form of dream therapy. While this so-called lucid dreaming helps him change and become more confident, his lust leads him on a dark adventure and the question remains as to whether he can charm Jasmine in reality. ?

Our coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival continues. Up next is an interview with French actress, Eye Haidara who plays Adele, in the fantastic French farce comedy, C'est La Vie.C’est la vie! tells the delightfully sprawling story of a day in the life of an ageing Parisian wedding caterer driven to frustrated distraction as a complex wedding in a 17th-century chateau unravels. Look out for our in-depth reviews early next week as we look back at the first week of the festival. 

Our coverage of the Edinburgh Film Festival rumbles on! Up today, is a bumper set of interviews for the film we highlighted in our preview episode that was Lee's most anticipated film, Calibre. It’s sold out here at the festival and will be dropping onto Netflix worldwide next week on the 29th of JuneI’m joined first by writer/director and Edinburgh legend Matt Palmer. actress Kate Bracken, actor Martin Mccann  and finally, Tony Curran.Calibre is about two lifelong friends, (one of them played by former Filibuster guest Jack Lowden)  who head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. Nothing could prepare them for what follows!Check out Filibuster co-host, Dallas King's FIVE STAR review here - http://championshipcelluloid.blogspot.com/2018/06/calibre-eiff-review.html 

We’re kickstarting our mammoth Edinburgh Film Festival coverage with an interview with one of the most famous producers in Hollywood, he produced Little Miss Sunshine, Safety Not Guaranteed & Everything Is Illuminated, has been nominated for an Oscar and has directed his second feature, the opening movie to this years festival, Puzzle, Marc Turtletaub.'Puzzle' follows Agnes (Scotland's Kelly MacDonald), taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.Book tickets now at www.edfilmfest.org.uk

Alison Becker, Keith Powell, Dan Tetsell and Sophie Duker join host, Dave Holmes, to Discuss monsters, defend (and attack) their home countries and decide what the best way to say certain words is. Alison wants to plug Bubble and Best Worst Week Ever. She recommends the Amazon Prime Show The Patriot. Keith wants to plug Bubble and an upcoming episode of Superstore that he directed. He recommends The Great British Baking Show. Sophie wants to plug her stand up show Diet Woke and recommends the newest Janelle Monáe album Dirty Computer. Dan wants to plug his wife’s upcoming show at the Edinburgh Film Festival and recommends the Netflix comedy series The Letdown. And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes and his book, Party of One is available now in paperback. You can let us know what you think of International Waters and suggest guests through our Facebook group or on Twitter. Written by Riley Silverman and John-Luke Roberts, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and GuiltFreePostin London, produced by Laura Swisher and Julian Burrell.

Lee Hutchison and Dallas King have gone through the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 programme with their highlighters and picked out a selection of movies and events they recommend booking or seeking out when the festival begins on June 20th.You can book tickets or browse the festival programming at http://edfilmfest.org.uk

EPISODE 4 CONTINUES WITH PART 2!   Today's guest is Ryan Denmark. He’s an independent writer, director, and producer of independent films likes Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead and Chase the Slut, both of which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and the recent film Hell’s Heart which is available to stream through Amazon. His short horror-comedy film “Plush” was featured in over 30 international film festivals and his script “Flying Objects” was a semi-finalist at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.    Also an accomplished editor, his feature documentary BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK received nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Gotham Awards in addition to being short-listed for the Oscars.   His editing credits include Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq and Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, along with the upcoming We have Always Lived in the Castle, and the SyFy Network series Happy!   He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.   Here is the link to his website:   https://www.thirdstarfilms.com       Aaron's Horror Show: EMAIL: AARONSHORRORSHOW@GMAIL.COM FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/AaronsHorrorShow/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/AaronHorrorShow Copyright holder is Aaron Frale: All songs provided by Spiral Copyright 2017 Spiral. You can check out their music at http://thespiral.bandcamp.com   Shows on RPA: Monday's: Real Paranormal Activity - The Podcast Tuesday's: Aaron's Horror Show with Aaron Frale Wednesday's: Terry's Mysterious Moments Random Times: The Sandman Lullaby with Patrick Jones (Will put out an announcement when a show will air)   REAL PARANORMAL ACTIVITY - THE PODCAST: Get our new App for iOS and Android! Its FREE! Download it now from the App stores! If you would like to listen to the archives, become a Premium Access member! For $3.99 a month you get unlimited access to the past Bonus, Listener Stories, Interviews and even audio books of Folklore from around the world! We use the funds for the show bills and to improve the show like the Apps! You can go to the website and click on the "Get Premium Access" button or you can register and also log into your existing account through the App! In the App just go to a Premium Episode and in the listing will be a "Padlock" icon. Tap on that and you will be brought into the Register/Login screen! You can then just use the App to log into your account or you can always go to the website! Thank you in advance and please enjoy yourselves!   NEW! Shop for RPA merchandise now: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/RPAPodcast Facebook Page: www.Facebook.com/Rpapodcast/ Website: www.RealParanormalActivity.com Twitter: @RPAPodcast Skype: RPAPodcast Hashtag: #RPAPodcast

Today's guest is Ryan Denmark. He’s an independent writer, director, and producer of independent films likes Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead and Chase the Slut, both of which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and the recent film Hell’s Heart which is available to stream through Amazon. His short horror-comedy film “Plush” was featured in over 30 international film festivals and his script “Flying Objects” was a semi-finalist at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.    Also an accomplished editor, his feature documentary BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK received nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Gotham Awards in addition to being short-listed for the Oscars.   His editing credits include Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq and Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, along with the upcoming We have Always Lived in the Castle, and the SyFy Network series Happy!   He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.   Here is the link to his website:   https://www.thirdstarfilms.com       Aaron's Horror Show: EMAIL: AARONSHORRORSHOW@GMAIL.COM FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/AaronsHorrorShow/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/AaronHorrorShow Copyright holder is Aaron Frale: All songs provided by Spiral Copyright 2017 Spiral. You can check out their music at http://thespiral.bandcamp.com   Shows on RPA: Monday's: Real Paranormal Activity - The Podcast Tuesday's: Aaron's Horror Show with Aaron Frale Wednesday's: Terry's Mysterious Moments Random Times: The Sandman Lullaby with Patrick Jones (Will put out an announcement when a show will air)   REAL PARANORMAL ACTIVITY - THE PODCAST: Get our new App for iOS and Android! Its FREE! Download it now from the App stores! If you would like to listen to the archives, become a Premium Access member! For $3.99 a month you get unlimited access to the past Bonus, Listener Stories, Interviews and even audio books of Folklore from around the world! We use the funds for the show bills and to improve the show like the Apps! You can go to the website and click on the "Get Premium Access" button or you can register and also log into your existing account through the App! In the App just go to a Premium Episode and in the listing will be a "Padlock" icon. Tap on that and you will be brought into the Register/Login screen! You can then just use the App to log into your account or you can always go to the website! Thank you in advance and please enjoy yourselves!   NEW! Shop for RPA merchandise now: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/RPAPodcast Facebook Page: www.Facebook.com/Rpapodcast/ Website: www.RealParanormalActivity.com Twitter: @RPAPodcast Skype: RPAPodcast Hashtag: #RPAPodcast

iTalk movies is a long-form interview series featuring leading members of the film community. In this episode, our host Blake V. interviews Marianna Palka on the Popcorn Talk Network.   Marianna Palka is a Scottish producer, director, writer, and actress. She is the writer, director and star of the film Good Dick, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Palka produced, wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Good Dick opposite her longtime boyfriend at the time, Jason Ritter. The film also featured Martin Starr, Mark Webber, Charles Durning, and Tom Arnold. The film was shot on digital video in the fall of 2006 and had a budget of approximately US$200,000. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and at the 2008 Edinburgh Film Festival and was released in the United States in 2009. At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Palka was a Sloan Juror with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2001, Palka appeared in Pet --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode: Facebook just announced a plan to block ads from pages that repeatedly spread fake news. Phillip and Len discuss Facebook's three key tenants of the plan, what this means for Facebook's ad revenue going forward, and more. Plus, Matt highlights a few key sections of Snapchat's Content Chief Nick Bell's comments at the Edinburgh Film Festival, by Hollywood Reporter's Georg Szalai. Today's cast: Len Ward (Commexis President), Matthew McGrorty (Commexis Videographer/Podcaster), and Phillip Brooks (Lead Digital & Creative Strategist).

'ENGLAND IS MINE' INTERVIEWSWelcome to our final podcast interview from the Edinburgh International Film Festival. we’ve been so lucky to meet with some amazing acting talent and behind the scenes name and i’m excited to share our conversations about movies, the festival and cinema with you.Today’s interviews are the director and stars of ‘England is Mine’ the morning after they closed the Edinburgh Film Festival. Set in the 1970s as Steven Morrisey’s  ambitions to be a musician developed, but before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths, this is Morrissey brimming with youthful arrogance, but searching to find his place in the musical world.Firstly we have writer and director Mark Gill who talks about being nomianted for the Oscar, Morrissey, developing England is Mine, Blade Runner and future projects. Jack Lowden who plays the iconic Steven Morrissey speaks about a Scot taking on this iconic role, his career, working with Christopher Nolan, the need for a film studio in Scotland and his history with the Edinburgh Film Festival.Jessica Brown Findlay who portrays Linder Sterling chats with Lee about strong and complex female characters in cinema, The Beautiful Fantastic, the art that inspires her and her experience working on period pieces like Downton Abbey & England is Mine. Laurie Kyniston starring as Johnny Marr shares his process for taking on this role, the work that is inspiring him, his career and what exciting roles he has ahead of him.I hope you’ll enjoy your discussion and thanks again to Mark, Jack, Jessica and Laurie for joining me. 

‘JUST CHARLIE’ INTERVIEWWelcome to our latest podcast interview from the Edinburgh International Film Festival. we’ve been so lucky to meet with some amazing acting talent and behind the scenes name and i’m excited to share our conversations about movies, the festival and cinema with you.Today’s interviews are the writer and star of Just Charlie, Peter Machen and Harry Gilby who plays the title character Charlie.Charlie, a young football prodigy, has a bright future in front of them. But when they come out as transgender suddenly life for everyone is turned upside down. All Charlie now wants is her friends and family to accept her and to live as her own self, but some people take longer to accept this than others. I hope you’ll enjoy your discussion and thanks again to Harry and Peter for giving up time to talk with me. Enjoy 

'MENASHE' INTERVIEWWelcome to our latest podcast interview from the Edinburgh International Film Festival. we’ve been so lucky to meet with some amazing acting talent and behind the scenes name and i’m excited to share our conversations about movies, the festival and cinema with you.Today’s interview is producer and writer, Alex Lipschultz, who talks to me about his work on the Yiddish-language movie, 'Menashe'.Set In the ultra-Orthodox world of a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, strict religious traditions frown upon a child growing up in a home without a mother. By ignoring the precedent, widower Menashe risks ostracisation from the community he loves; worse, his son Rieven could even be refused access to school. I hope you’ll enjoy your discussion and thanks again to Alex for giving up his time to meet with me .

[Recorded on 29th June 2017] This week, Andrew and Jessica are on assignment at Anime Expo in the USA so you're stuck with Jeremy, Kerry, Keith and Kat to keep you entertained for about 90 minutes of chatter which, to be totally up front, has far less anime talk than usual. Topics covered (but not limited to) include bracing Keith's climate control settings in the van following a convention, the perils of traveling in general, Kerry's adventures at the Edinburgh Film Festival, what show that was simulcast would we like to release if possible, thoughts on Embossments on packaging, our completely hypothetical pitches for an Ultimate Edition release and then to change things up a bit - as if it hasn't been different compared to the norm already - we introduce the random topic generator to proceedings! Then, we conclude the show by bidding farewell to one of Team Anime Limited as they are moving on new ventures. (NOTE from Jeremy: Events from the evening before this podcast was recorded totally don't play into the overall feel of this episode... ;) ) A fun podcast as always! We hope you enjoy listening to it and we'll be back next Friday with another episode for you! NOTE: As always please note this podcast contains strong language and any views expressed by individuals in this podcast do not reflect those of Anime Limited.

This is our premier episode. Hello! How are our identities shaped by our experiences? Dan shares the inspiration for his work on visual impairment in movies as a Keasby Memorial Scholar at the University of Edinburgh. “Movies for blind people” seems to be an oxymoronic statement. Dan’s work led to a thesis for the Edinburgh Film Festival on how producers and directors need to be more aware of the needs of visually impaired people. WHO estimates over 285 million people have visual impairments including 39 million who are blind. Audio description was first used in live theater performances to help visually impaired patrons to participate in the performance. WGBH experimented with audio description in the mid-80s but only over the past decade has the service become available for limited programming on broadcast TV and some movies as an alternate audio channel. Just this year in April 2015 Netflix began to offer audio description for their new series Marvel’s Daredevil. However audio commentary is typically developed without the involvement of the creative team. Should this be the norm? What are the opportunities for audio commentary as an integral component of the story?

Jennifer Steinman is a Film Director, Producer and Editor with over 18 years of experience in television and filmmaking. Her work has aired nationally on ABC, PBS, Discovery, Nat Geo, and a bunch of different festivals like SXSW and Sundance. Jennifer’s most recent documentary film project, DESERT RUNNERS was selected "Best of the Fest" at the 2013 Edinburgh Film Festival. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at both the Vancouver International and The Hamptons International Film Festivals, and was named by the Huffington Post as one of "The Top 10 Documentaries of 2013."

Actor and Director Noel Clarke takes a break from the screenings of The Anomaly at the Edinburgh Film Festival to play in this week's 20 Questions Wrong... the celebrity quiz from Edinburgh Nights on Shore Radio.

America Ferrera joins Robin Milling at the 64th annual Edinburgh Film Festival to talk about her powerful role in The Dry Land, plus her upcoming celebrations both personally and professionally.