
A New Model For Micro Budget Film Distribution.
A New Model For Micro Budget Film Distribution. Short Circuit The Film Industry As has become fairly apparent to anyone reading our occasional musings we are more than a little enamoured by a niche area of the music industry, the 1970s/80s independent record scenes of the UK. A period where amateur musicians, non musicians, outsiders, weirdos and mavericks – all those outside the established music industry suddenly found a voice and created some of the most inspired records o

Review: TF11 - Teenage Superstars by The List
Thanks to Eddie Harrison for this review. Original article is here: https://film.list.co.uk/article/92608-teenage-superstars/ EIFF 2017: Lucid and entertaining exploration of the 90s Scottish music scene, from Grant McPhee 'Artful desperation' is how Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore neatly characterises the Scottish music scene of the early 90s in one of the key interviews featured in Grant McPhee's documentary. Teenage Superstars is McPhee and co-writer Angela Slaven's follow up

Review - TF11: Teenage Superstars from The Next Big Thing
Original article here: http://nextbigthing.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/teenage-superstars-screening-eiff-71.html Thanks to Lindsay Hutton for this review. TEENAGE SUPERSTARS SCREENING - EIFF 71 Saw Teenage Superstars yesterday, the second instalment of Grant McPhee’s two part document of Scottish music’s formative years and its connection with further afield. Indeed, I gave a lot of this local produce the rubber ear in the early days. A mixture of being obsessed with American “pun

Review - TF11 : Teenage Superstars - The Skinny
Original article here: http://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-releases/teenage-superstars Thanks to Rachel Bowles for this review. Lively doc from Grant McPhee (Big Gold Dream) exploring the Scottish music scene from the mid-80s to the early 90s Teenage Superstars is Grant McPhee's follow up to 2015’s Big Gold Dream, which charted the unlikely, near-mythical success of a pair of Scottish record labels – Postcard Records in Glasgow and Fast Product in Edinburgh. That initial film