Festival

Our 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

About a Band has been selected and will be screened at the Nepal Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu.

The three day festival with the theme “Music for Life, Music for Survival” will be hosted by the Music Museum of Nepal in Kathmandu between Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November 2011. Each day will be dedicated to a different foreign musicologist.

The festival is the first of its kind in Nepal.

Breadmakers is to be screened at the 9th Sprout Film Festival New York on Saturday 30th April and Sunday May 1st 2011.

The Sprout Film Festival takes place between Friday 29th April and Sunday 1st May 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and this year they will be screening 50 unique films from 16 different countries.

The Sprout Film Festival was founded in 2003 and is programmed and supported by Sprout, a NYC-based non-profit organisation, dedicated to bringing innovative programming to people with developmental disabilities.

You can view Breadmakers at the Sprout Touring Film Festival YouTube page.

About A Band is to be screened as part of Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture Festival.

The Ceilidh Culture Festival brings together a large number of contributors from all over Edinburgh and beyond, for a real celebration of all that is wonderful about the grass roots traditional arts in Scotland. With more than 30 contributing organisations, Ceilidh Culture proudly showcases local talent alongside international acts.

About A Band will be shown at McDonald Road Community Library on Tuesday 12th April 2011 at 10.15am. The screening will be followed by music from the Columcille Ceilidh Band.

For more details click here.

Breadmakers is to be screened at the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival which takes place between the 11th – 20th March 2011.

The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival is a leading European Documentary Festival since its inception in 1999. Through its tributes and retrospectives, the festival focuses on filmmakers with unique cinematic voices, internationally renowned for their contribution to the documentary genre.

Breadmakers Director, Yasmin Fedda, will be travelling to the Film Festival.

A nice review from Alison Rowat of The Herald newspaper dated 17th February 2011.

"Meet another combo, this time a Scots one, in Jim Hickey’s short but uplifting documentary About a Band (***). The Columcille Ceilidh Band from Edinburgh is mainly made up of musicians with learning difficulties. As Hickey follows them from gig to gig it’s plain that, like every other band, the CCB are in it for the sheer joy of playing and the camaraderie of the road. N/C 18+, Wednesday, 1.30pm, GFT."

And So Goodbye is to be screened at Reel Festivals in May 2011. This is a new arts festival hosting cultural exchanges between Syria, Lebanon and Scotland. The festival will begin in Damascus, move to Lebanon and end in Edinburgh with a changing program of music, film and poetry.

Previous Reel Festivals have focused on Afghanistan and Iraq and have been co-ordinated by Firefly International, Afghan Schools Trust and Edinburgh University Settlement.

The festival, supported by the British Council, will take place for three weeks from 7th May 2011, beginning in Damascus, then moving to Beirut before closing in Edinburgh.

Our documentary About a Band will be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival at 1.30pm on Wednesday 23rd February 2011 in Glasgow Film Theatre 2.

The film features Columcille Ceilidh Band which uniquely includes musicians with and without learning disabilities. Interviews with the band members show their working relationship and the inevitable tensions which exist within the band, but also the central role that music plays in their lives.

Glasgow Film Festival, the fastest growing film event in the UK, is dedicated to present the best of international and Scottish cinema to film lovers. GFF offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals within the festival, workshops and the chance to meet filmmakers from Scotland and around the world.

To book tickets click here.

About a Band will be screened at the Picture This International Disability Film Festival, Calgary, Canada on Thursday 17th February 2011.

The film features Columcille Ceilidh Band which uniquely includes musicians with and without learning disabilities. Interviews with the band members show their working relationship and the inevitable tensions which exist within the band, but also the central role that music plays in their lives.

Picture This Film Festival is both a competitive and exhibition festival screening films that are about disability and/or films on any subject that were produced, directed and/or written by people with disabilities. The festival is an initiative of the Calgary SCOPE Society, which is a registered Non-Profit Society.

Breadmakers will be screened at the look&roll short film festival in Switzerland. The festival is organized by Procap, the biggest Swiss self-helping organisation for people with special needs.

look&roll results from a close cooperation with short film festivals all over the world, with universities, distributors and festivals focussing on disability. Out of a shortlist of about 80 entries the programming commission selected 21 contributions from 11 countries.

Breadmakers will be screened on Friday 17th September at 7.30pm and Sunday 19th September at 4.30pm.