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Photos l-r: Visitors to the premiere of American Cousins at Inverness in the Scottish Highlands included veteran Scottish actor Russell Hunter with his wife, Uma McLean; the writer Sergio Casci; actor Kenneth Cranham and the film’s director, Dom Coutts; scene from the film; director Terence Davies and finally from Bafta East Coast, Dr David Starkey accompanied by Jody Sheff and Gillian Rose.
greatest film festivals in the
world, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is a cen- trepiece of the Scottish capital’s sensational season of arts and culture festivals.
For the whole month of August every year Edinburgh become the mecca for artists of all kinds and the ancient streets of the Old Town come alive and overflow with hundreds of per- formers and musicians.
It is a great place to visit and observe as the world’s largest international arts festival unfolds all around you. The standards set by the International Film Festival continue to lead the way to discovery.
New ideas, new films and lots of new talent are on show and, in the words of Festival Director Shane Danielsen: “Many films are assembled here – funny and trag- ic, harsh and beautiful, thrilling and profound... that will haunt your dreams and colour your days... the purpose and the enduring value of art.”
For further information on the Edinburgh International Film Festival contact:
In person: the Box Office at Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh. By telephone: Credit Card Booking Line: 0131 623 8030 Online: www.edfilmfest.org.uk
ries the theme of working class youth in Liverpool, both brought him considerable acclaim.
In his recent adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, House Of Mirth, Terence abandons Liverpool and embraces America – to great effect. Much of the film, which starred Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame, was shot in Glasgow, with some of the city’s famous landmark buildings doubling for Grand Central Station and other major hotels and sites in New York.
He is about to embark on his latest project – an adaptation of one of the best-loved works of Scottish literature – the famous Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel, Sunset Song. So he’ll be back in Scotland filming again very soon.
Terence will be interviewed by Shane Danielsen at the UGC, Fountain Park on August 19 at 2pm.
He’ll be discussing his past work, his influences and experi- ences as a writer, director and passionate cinephile. Funny, can- did and clever, Davies in conver- sation with Danielsen will be sim- ply unmissable.
BAFTA Scotland will have a lim- ited allocation of tickets and invi- tations for this special event and the following reception. They will be issued on a first-come-first- served basis and, as our Festival
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This year, BAFTA Scotland’s special guest interviewee is the ground-breaking British film director, Terence Davies. The traditional and very long-stand- ing relationship with the Edinburgh International Film Festival will be carried on magnif- icently with this event and we are very proud to welcome Terence to our ‘Hall of Fame’.
Set within the context of a really exciting Festival, the BAFTA Scotland event is an absolute must for anyone who loves film.
The list of past participants reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of British Cinema with names like David Puttnam, Lindsay Anderson, John McGrath, Michael Winner, Michael Caton-Jones, Antonia Bird, Alan Rickman, Duncan Kenworthy and, from the US, David Mamet.
Davies has been described as one of the most visionary and sin- gular talents of the British Film industry - perhaps in a similar genre to those other famous Brits - Mike Leigh and Ken Loach.
But his work has equally been linked in style to that of Ingmar Bergman. His wonderful and moving autobiographical, Distant Voices, Still Lives, a family chroni- cle set in the years after the Second World War and, later,