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The Download Horror (Test Screening)
Submitted by robin_m on Tue, 05/06/2012 - 16:59A big thank you to everyone who attended the test screening of The Download Horror at Cineworld Edinburgh on Friday 1st June 2012. We had a great response to the film. If anyone who attended this screening has any further feedback, please contact me at robin@cadies.co.uk
The Download Horror (2012, 70mins)
Dougie and Robbo like nothing more than a night in watching one of Big Al’s latest downloads - especially if it’s a horror film featuring five babes alone in a big house. Big Al is their best friend and they depend on him for a constant diet of blood, gore and nudity and whatever else he thinks will satisfy their craving. Will his latest find, the horror film Sacrificed, live up to Dougie and Robbo’s expectations?
More details later in the year.
Double Bill in Belgrade
Submitted by robin_m on Thu, 17/05/2012 - 15:05Both About A Band and Breadmakers have been selected for the 2012 BOSI FEST Belgrade International Film Festival For and By People with Disabilities. Both films will be screened on Tuesday 22nd May at 7pm and 8pm respectively.
BOSI FEST is an international film festival for and about people with disabilities which was organized for the first time in 2010. The festival's primary aim is to draw public attention to the art and possibilities of the participants, at the same time sending the message that disabled people should enjoy the same rights as other citizens.
More details HERE
Princess Pumpalot (The Farting Princess) COMING SOON
Submitted by robin_m on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 18:35Princess Pumpalot (The Farting Princess) is a new book which will be published in the summer of 2012.
Written by Robin Mitchell, Princess Pumpalot is a children's book aimed at 9-11 year olds.
On the occasion of her 13th birthday, Princess Pumpalot is presented with the key to the cabinet. This is no ordinary key and this is no ordinary cabinet. The cabinet contains 32,141 tins of magic beans . . . beans that make you fart.
Written in the style of a screenplay, Princess Pumpalot (The Farting Princess) is a funny wee story which farts along at a great pace.
Going to a Child Contact Centre
Submitted by robin_m on Fri, 13/04/2012 - 09:36We have just finished our short animation film, Going to a Child Contact Centre which can be viewed HERE.
The film describes the experience of four children attending a Child Contact Centre in Scotland. The Edinburgh animator, Jim Stirk created the animation from a script by Charlene Kelly and original artwork by David Trujillo-Farley.
Going to a Child Contact Centre is one of a series of films we have produced in association with Freedonia Films for Relationships Scotland including Child Contact in Scotland:Supported and Child Contact in Scotland:Supervised.
Full Frame Twice
Submitted by robin_m on Thu, 05/04/2012 - 18:14Our short film, Breadmakers (Dir. Yasmin Fedda, 11 mins) has been selected for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham, North Carolina, USA for a second time.
Previously selected in 2008, Breadmakers has been invited back to the Full Frame Festival to help celebrate their fifteenth year. One short film has been chosen from each year of their previous fourteen festivals and Breadmakers is representing 2008.
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. The festival takes place between the 12th - 15th April 2012.
More details at: http://www.fullframefest.org
And So Goodbye to the University of St Andrews
Submitted by robin_m on Mon, 05/03/2012 - 20:43Our 24-minute documentary And So Goodbye (Dir. Jim Hickey) is to be included in a film project at the University of St Andrews.
Dr Tom Rice, a lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, is currently developing a project that seeks to examine the history of cinema within St Andrews. As part of this project, he is running an honours module, entitled Film and the Archive. The module encourages students to use archival materials and conduct research into local film history.
More details can be found at http://cinemastandrews.org.uk.
The Director of the original And So Goodbye film (Bob Edwards) and its lead actor (Rollo Mitchell) both attended the University of St Andrews in the 1940s. During that time they made several films, generating countless letters, newsletters and scripts which will also be used as part of the film module.
Award Winning in Kathmandu
Submitted by robin_m on Mon, 05/12/2011 - 11:45About a Band has been chosen by an international panel of judges to receive a commendation award at International Folk Music Film Festival, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011 in the longer film category.
The three day festival with the theme “Music for Life, Music for Survival” was hosted by the Music Museum of Nepal in Kathmandu between Friday 25th and Sunday 27th November 2011. Each day was dedicated to a different foreign musicologist.
The Festival is the first of its kind in Nepal.
The 43-minute documentary About a Band, Directed by Jim Hickey, features the Columcille Ceilidh Band which uniquely includes musicians with and without learning disabilities. The band is based at the Columcille Centre in Edinburgh.
About A Band YouTube clip.
Short Films on Vimeo
Submitted by robin_m on Sun, 20/11/2011 - 14:10Our short documentary films The Rest is Silence and Breadmakers can now be viewed on the Scottish Documentary Institute's Vimeo website.
The Rest is Silence follows the course of an unidentified body through its progress from discovery to burial.
Click HERE to view The Rest is Silence.
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city.
Click HERE to view Breadmakers.