Article : TF6 'Big Gold Dream' in Sight and SoundsBest of 2015
We're delighted that Tartan Feature TF6 Big Gold Dream is 131 in Sight and Sounds best films of 2015! https://letterboxd.com/russman/list/every-film-receiving-votes-in-sight-sounds-1/genre/documentary/
Big Gold Dream Previewed by BFI
The BFI have previewed Big Gold Dream at EIFF2015 Nostalgia powered two British documentaries, although both were strictly conventional in form and ambition and a bit wistful about changing times. Both also followed the vogue for explanatory titles that might suit a key-word search. Big Gold Dream Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream mapped out the two magnetic poles of the region’s early-1980s music scene: Bob Last in Edinburgh, whose subsequent career involved
Article : TF5 - 'Where Do We Go From Here?' Lauren Lamarr in UWS Alumni
The UWS have a nice overview of what TF5 Producer Lauren Lamarr has been up to since leaving: Former UWS Media Studies student, Lauren Lamarr has Produced her first micro-budget feature film ‘Where Do We Go From Here’, with Scottish Indie Company Worrying Drake Productions. The Romantic Comedy picked up 8 nominations, and won 3 awards at the Sydney Independent Film Festival on the 25th October, including Best Film. Since leaving UWS, Lauren has produced several short films in
Article : TF9 'Con Men' Daily Record Speaks to R Paul Wilson for Con Men Preview
The Daily Record has a piece on Tartan Feature 9 ' TF9 'Con Men' HE MADE his name exposing conmen and taking in audiences and now magician, TV presenter and all-round master of illusion R Paul Wilson has set his sights on the big screen. The Scots star of smash-hit series The Real Hustle has just finished his first feature film, shot in and around his home town of Glasgow earlier this year for just over £3000. Con Men, starring Ae Fond Kiss actor Atta Yaqub, is a mystery thri
Article : TF8 'Night Kaleidoscope' Horror CUlt Films Preview.
HorrorCultFilms have a preview for TF8 Night Kaleidoscope. Scottish vampire flick NIGHT KALEIDOSCOPE has received a psychedelic new trailer. Night Kaleidoscope is the third feature from Award-Winning Director Grant McPhee, and his first foray into the horror genre. Shot in just one week on a shoestring budget, the film punches well above its weight thanks to McPhee’s stunning cinematography and bold vision. McPhee started his career as a cinematographer, and it shows. The fil
Article : TF8 'Night Kaleidoscope' Preview on Horror Cabin
Horror Cabin have written a preview to accompany the TF8 Night Kaleidoscope Trailer release. And an extra mention of Tartan Features. I have to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of vampire movies. I never found then especially scary and with the rise of the teenage, angsty, goth-like variety, I was put off for a long time with these creatures. But then “30 Days Of Night” came out and changed my mind about what a proper, scary, bloody vampire film could be. And, now, it’s ha
Festival : TF6 'Big Gold Dream' wins Coveted EIFF Audience Award 2015
We're delighted that Tartan Feature TF6 Big Gold Dream has won the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award. Thank you everyone who voted. Grant McPhee's Big Gold Dream wins the EIFF Audience Award 2015. The recipient of the Festival’s highly sought after Audience Award was announced during the Closing Gala at Festival Theatre Edinburgh. The Audience Award Nominees If you attended a screening of any of the films below, you were able to rate the film using vo
Article and Interview : TF6 'Big Gold Dream' Pitchfork Interview with Director Grant McPhee
We were lucky to be interviewed by leading music magazine Pitchfork for our soon to be released documentaries TF6 Big Gold Dream and TF11 Teenage Superstars: Q&A: The Sound of Young Scotland Doc Director Grant McPhee by Marc Hogan Scotland was late to receive the punk gospel, but once it got hold, England’s northern neighbor clung tightly to the do-it-yourself mindset. Independent labels such as Edinburgh’s Fast Product in the late 1970s, along with Glasgow’s Postcard at the
Article and Interview : TF6 'Big Gold Dream' in Vice Magazine
Vice Magazine spoke to us for an article on Tartan Features TF6 'Big Gold Dream'. Grant McPhee is the man behind 'The Sound of Young Scotland,' a film exploring Scotland's music scene in the 1970s. By the late 1970s, punk was already showing signs of stagnating. Supposedly radical teens were spending increasingly more time moussing their mohawks and searching for that perfect safety pin for their leather jackets; the Sex Pistols had already said "fuck" on live TV; Sid Vicious
Article : TF6 'Big Gold Dream'
TF6 'Big Gold Dream' has been featured in a BBC Arts preview by Alistair McKay: As that great punk rocker, Marcel Proust noted, remembrance of things past is not necessarily a remembrance of things as they were. Big Gold Dream, a documentary by Grant McPhee, re-imagines the musical history of the post-punk period as it unfolded in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and makes a persuasive argument that something great was happening in the years which followed The Clash’s appearance at the
