TF 19 - 'Connect' in The Times
We were delighted that Gillian Furnage from The Times came to our recent Beyond Year Zero event to watch Marilyn Edmond's film 'Connect'. She's written a wonderful article about the film here - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/debut-movie-sparks-a-conversation-about-mens-mental-health-bwbpt6d2x Below is a short extract and a cutting of the original article. "It might not sound like the cheeriest of subjects. Connect, the debut feature film from Scottish writer and director
Far From the Apple Tree - Toronto Screening and Review
Tartan 14 - Far From the Apple Tree received it's Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Spring of Horror Festival, at the great Carlton Cinema. https://www.springofhorror.com http://www.springofhorror.com/Films-2019.html#Apple We were also delighted to receive another really great review from Jeff Schmidt at his Nightmarish Conjurings page - http://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/2019/05/15/tish-movie-review-far-from-the-apple-tree-2018/ Words and text (c) Jeff Schmidt
Filmmaker Q&A: May Miles Thomas on the making of Voyageuse
May Miles Thomas's Voyageuse premiered last month at the Glasgow Film Festival, tracing the life of Miles Thomas's mother-in-law, Erica, from her origins in Hungary, from where she fled with her family to England in 1938, through education at Cambridge and Oxford, her struggles in a career as a scientist, to marriage, children and her relationship with her own mother. Without funding and in the absence of a crew, Miles Thomas skillfully pieces together Erica's life through a
Democratising The Filmmaking Process Volume 2: DIY PR – How To Get Your Film Reviewed and Written Ab
DIY PR – How To Get Your Film Reviewed and Written About. Democratising The Filmmaking Process Volume 2. Making a film is but merely one of the many battles involved in the great movie-making wars. If you have already reached this stage you are likely acutely aware that not everyone is currently sharing your unbridled enthusiasm for your efforts. You (and we) know you've created a work of genius but sadly the rest of the world has not been given the opportunity to offer their
Democratising the Filmmaking Process Volume 3 : DIY Distribution : How to Get Your Short or Feature
Democratising the Filmmaking Process Volume 3 : DIY Distribution : How to Get Your Short or Feature into a Film Festival This is our third DIY Distribution guide. Part 1 was how to make your movie available on Amazon Prime and Part 2 was how to get your movie reviewed and written about. Of course there are other options for getting your film seen by the public, and one of the most traditional is Film Festivals. In recent years Film Freeway has become one of the most useful di
Filmmaker Q&A: Tim Fraser-Granados on Blood's a Rover
Blood's a Rover is the debut feature from Tim Fraser-Granados, telling the story of a detective chief inspector, a millionaire's wife, a psychiatrist and a loner whose lives unravel in a labyrinthine plot of murder, blackmail and political conspiracy in Scotland's capital. We chatted to Tim about making a Scottish neo-noir, navigating first-time feature-filmmaking and the possibilities in micro-budget filmmaking shortly after he'd wrapped principal photography earlier this mo
Filmmaker Q&A: Douglas Sannachan on Starcache
Starcache is the debut feature from Glasgow actor Douglas Sannachan (That Sinking Feeling, Gregory's Girl, Taggart). The comedy horror follows the weekend of a group of geocachers (the collective term for a group of people partaking in geocaching - a GPS, smartphone enabled treasure-hunt) on the search for a $1,000,000 cache. The pursuit of the prize soon becomes a battle to stay alive; who is in the woods picking off the cachers one by one? Made on zero budget, with five yea
Filmmaker Q&A - Colin Bell & Gregor Barclay on Ribbons
Tartan Features #17 - improvised psychological thriller, Ribbons - got off to a shaky start earlier this year when the shoot schedule was thrown out the window following the Beast From the East. Starring Robert Jack (BBC's Gary: Tank Commander) and Ali Craig (Outlander, Trust Me and Shetland), Ribbons follows a small group of four very different characters trapped in a confined space - a windowless bunker that pushes relationships to breaking points, and minds to the brink of
Empire of the Sensless: Funding, Promoting and Nurturing Emerging Talent pt1
Yesterday, I identified three problems I see currently facing Scotland's film industry. Today, I want to focus on the first of those problems - funding for emerging talent, and the promotion and nurturing of that talent. RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN My personal belief is that for the film industry to flourish it has to become more accessible – to everyone. Barriers between the Existing Industry and everyone else must be broken. We live in a society where filmmaking is no longer
Filmmaker Q&A: David Newbigging on Darkness Comes
Brand new to Amazon - and Tartan Features - Darkness Comes is David Newbigging's debut feature film. The film's production acted as a crash course in filmmaking for a group of young people local to the film's set in Greenock. We chatted to him about the making of the film and inclusion in the industry. Tell us a little bit about Darkness Comes - how did it come about? Darkness Comes was originally titled Dying Light. I worked for years in community arts companies and third se
