Become part of our Short Film Database Project. We need your help! Something we always aimed for was a comprehensive database of Scottish Short Films. Why? 1) Well, it's interesting. 2) For funded schemes it can show how effective they are/were, 3) It can show a progression in individual or group skills and careers. 4) Film is an effective medium for showing historical and social changes or developments in culture. A database gives immediate access to anyone wishing to resear

We Are Time Tartan Features - Third Annual Report Prologue – In the Beginning There Was... They gave us five years. We said, “That's not a lot.” They said, “Five years. That's all you've got.” This is the first three, this is. A contrary, contradictory yarn about how an ironically named idea called Tartan Features became the – deep breaths and drum-rolls, please - Official-Advocate-of-New-and-Emerging-Talent-Within-the-Scottish-Film-Industry. Or... The not so secret origin of

Tartan Features 4 – "Wigilia, A Christmas Eve Story" will be screened as our Alternative Christmas event in December. More details to follow.... In the run up we thought we'd share part of our Q+A with it's director Graham Drysdale. The Q+A is part of our ongoing 'How We Made...' series which we will post after the screening. It will contain a whole lot of information that should hopefully help you when you make YOUR Micro Budget Feature. And making your Micro Budget Feature

Where did the idea come from? Sheepo came about in quite a long-winded way. Archie is and old school friend, and he’s a sheep shearer, many of my friends are sheep shearers. He always wanted to travel the world shearing sheep and seeking his fortune. I was in my early twenties and Archie had spent two or three years on the global sheep shearing circuit. He was home for a summer to shear in the UK. We met up for a few pints as old friend do, and we got talking. We drank some m

SHEEPO (2015), Whaam! Shorts Two. The next Whaam! Short is 'Sheepo', a fantastic documentary from director Ian Robertson and producer Steven Donnelly on a very unusual subject – sheep shearing. Speed, precision, endurance. Sheep-shearing can be cut-throat and one sheep behind may as well be one hundred. Plunged into the moment, shearer Archie Paterson shares the intensity of the challenge and his searing competitive streak. Another highmark of the 'just-get-out-there-and-do-i

Whaam! Shorts Tartan Features has been a little quiet of late. Other than being very busy with our other lives there's a good reason for this – we've been expanding. Tartan Features, under the Year Zero Filmmaking umbrella now has a little sister. We've called her Whaam! Shorts. Whaam! Shorts shares the same ideology as Tartan Features – films made with the same DIY spirit, uncompromising attitude, a vision to think big and the tenacity to get something made - no matter what