Film Hub Scotland
Blog
Our members chronicle their journeys, experiences and learnings here in our blog - dip in and find out what they've been up to.
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Blog 08 October 2018
FHS Funded Projects 2018: The story so far
We’re half-way through the first year of BFI 2022 – bringing the BFI’s aims of inclusivity, diversity and supporting independent cinema to Scottish audiences. We are proud to have funded regional activity across Scotland via our Pilot Projects and Pitch Pots. Here’s some of the great audience development projects, screenings, events and programming…
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Blog 13 September 2018
CinemaAttic: Notes from a Spanish-Scottish Sophomore at the Venice Film Festival
Every year, Biennale and Venice Production Bridge partner with CICAE (Confederation of International Arthouse Cinemas) to organise an international training programme for cinema managers and film programmers, and after attending last year as a trainee this was my first experience as part of the organisation. Scotland in San Servolo was represented …
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Blog 12 July 2018
Morvern Cunningham reports from Clore
Freelance Creative Producer Morvern Cunningham talks about her recent attendance on the 54th Clore Intensive Leadership Course (formerly called the Short Course) run by the Clore Leadership Programme for cultural leaders. I recently attended a Clore Leadership Course, a residential two-week course in Hampshire, alongside 23 other participants from …
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Blog 06 March 2018
Exhibitors Days at Glasgow Film Festival - Follow Up
FHS Exhibitors’ Days Follow Up Friday 23 – Saturday 24 February 2017, Glasgow Film Festival With the recent snowpocalypse sweeping the country it's hard to believe that it was a little over a week ago that we hosted our Exhibitors' Days as part of Glasgow Film Festival 2018. We hope you all stayed warm and safe in the meantime and, as everyone is…
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Blog 16 October 2017
ART CINEMA = ACTION + MANAGEMENT in Venice
A bursary from Film Hub Scotland helped Corin Christopher, Assistant General Manager at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh, attend the ART CINEMA = ACTION + MANAGEMENT residential course in Venice this summer. Here she fills us in on an inspiring and enjoyable week...Having heard wonderful things from colleagues who had attended in the past, and having …
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Blog 12 August 2016
If you’re going to steal, steal from the best
We supported Grahame Reid, Film Programmer at Macrobert Arts Centre, to attend Sheffield Doc/Fest this June. It proved an inspiring experience... Earlier this year I was asked by our Artistic Director, Julie Ellen, what I thought was needed to continue the growth and development of film here at Macrobert Arts Centre. For me, the answer was simple. …
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Blog 22 June 2016
Vlogging Workshop at My Flatpack
Maximilian Marshall - a member of the Edinburgh International Film Festival's (EIFF) Young Programmers group - attended a Vlogging Workshop organised by the BFI Film Audience Network at Flatpack Film Festival this April. Here he tells us about his experience... From a networking perspective, it was incredibly useful to meet all these d…
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Blog 12 December 2015
Cinema is where I've learned and unlearned everything about being a person
Georgina Coburn, Arts Writer and Chair of Inverness Film Fans (InFiFa), received a Film Hub Scotland bursary to attend This Way Up 15 - the Exhibition Innovation Conference which took place at HOME in Manchester in December 2015. Here are her thoughts on the event... Cinema is “where I’ve learned and unlearned everything about being a person”. Paul…
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Blog 08 December 2015
I Like it. What is it?
Chloe Milne, Marketing Officer at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), took part in The Audience Agency's Grow: Strategic Audience Development course with the help of a Film Hub Scotland bursary. She shares some of her learning here... It was so good to hear where other organisations were in terms of their research, audience data and audien…
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Blog 10 November 2015
Field notes from an experimental adventure
Lydia Beilby, part of artists' collective Screen Bandita and Short Film Curator for Edinburgh International Film Festival, took a trip to the BFI London Film Festival to attend some of the Experimenta screenings this October. Here are her highlights from the programme... As analogue technology ambassadors, working primarily with archiv…
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Blog 08 October 2015
British Silent Film Festival
Alison Strauss, Director of Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema in Bo'Ness, attended the British Silent Film Festival in September to catch up with the films, programmers and musicians that will inform her own festival...The British Silent Film Festival was established in 1998 as a feisty riposte to the widely-held perception at the time, even amo…
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Blog 24 August 2015
Stay Curious
Jane Hartshorn, Marketing and Press Coordinator at Glasgow Film, attended the Arts Marketing Association Conference in Birmingham in July with the aid of a Film Hub Scotland bursary. Here are some key ideas that she took away with her... We are in the relationship business, not the transaction business, and communities are our active …
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Blog 17 August 2015
Developing Your Film Festival in Motovun
Morvern Cunningham, who is involved in the management of a variety of Scottish film festivals, received a Film Hub Scotland bursary to attend ICO's Developing Your Film Festival course in Croatia this July. Here she tells us what she got from the experience... Of particular use to me was the notion of strategising in all areas of oper…
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Blog 05 August 2015
It is good for the future of cinema that Africa exists
Deborah May, Shadow Curator at Africa in Motion Film Festival, made good use of a Film Hub Scotland bursary to visit Durban International Film Festival in July 2015. She reports back on her experience here... I have been absorbed throughout my festival experience by conversations on the current state of African cinema at home and abro…
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Blog 29 May 2015
EYE on film heritage
Emily Munro from the Scottish Screen Archive (National Library of Scotland) took advantage of a weekend getaway to Amsterdam to visit EYE Film Institute and find out why it has so quickly gained an international reputation. EYE’s Head of Education, Florine Wiebenga, showed her around. Away from the cobbled streets, leaning buildings a…
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Blog 20 April 2015
Be passionate, imaginative and ambitious: Cultural Cinema Exhibition
We offered Neil Hepburn, Marketing Manager at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh, a bursary to attend the ICO’s Cultural Cinema Exhibition course in London in April 2015. Here is his insight into the course… Distributors need to continue to develop more innovative, multi-platform release strategies. Exhibitors need to protect and support i…
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Blog 30 March 2015
A magical queer film-land
Helen Wright, founder of SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival), received a Film Hub Scotland bursary to attend BFI Flare in London in March 2015. Here’s how she got on… A year ago, I attended BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival for the first time. The trip partly inspired the formation of SQIFF. So, I was very happy to have the chanc…
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Blog 20 December 2014
This Way Up, what next?
Mark Jenkins is chair and programmer for West Side Cinema in Stromness, Orkney. He received a bursary to attend This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation, the conference we hosted with our colleagues from Film Hub North and North West Central at Tyneside Cinema on 2 & 3 December 2014. Here are his thoughts on the experience… The individ…
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Blog 16 December 2014
This Way and That Way
Richard Warden, Film Curator for the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, received a bursary to attend This Way Up: Exhibition Innovation, the conference we hosted with our colleagues from Film Hub North and North West Central at Tyneside Cinema on 2 & 3 December 2014. He tells us what he got from the experience… Is ther…
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Blog 20 October 2014
SQIFF attends Iris Prize Forum on programming LGBT cinema
Morvern Cunningham, a member of the team behind the new Scottish Queer International Film Festival, received a Film Hub Scotland bursary to attend a forum on Programming LGBT Cinema at the Iris Prize Festival in Cardiff in October. She fills us in on her experience… At the start of this year, I and a bunch of like-minded individuals from various b…
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Blog 16 October 2014
An Outrageous Pilgrim’s Progress
Shona Thomson is a freelance film festival programmer/producer currently working with Falkirk Community Trust to produce the fifth Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema taking place in March 2015 in Bo’ness. We offered her a bursary to attend Branchage Festival on Jersey in September and this is what she had to say about it… “Branchag…
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Blog 27 September 2014
Working together at Cinema For All's national conference
We offered Sue Scott, Cinema Manager of Dunlop Community Cinema, a bursary to attend Cinema For All‘s National Conference for Community Cinemas in September 2014. This was her experience… The weekend offered a great opportunity to explore new ideas around involving your audience, marketing, and film programming. …
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Blog 27 September 2014
Cinema really is for all, and there are people across the country making it so!
Making good use of a Film Hub Scotland bursary, Laura Dolan, Lifelong Learning Assistant at Glasgow Women’s Library, attended Cinema For All's National Conference for Community Cinemas in September 2014. She tells us what she thought… Throughout the weekend it was great to hear what other groups are doing – what works and what doesn’t…