SCREEN SHETLAND’S 8TH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL
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Gruff Rhys: American Interior 4 September
29 AUG - 7 SEP 2014
WELCOME TO SCREENPLAY
Welcome to Screenplay 2014, Shetland Arts’ 8th annual celebration of the moving image. This year, as ever, we are bringing you films old and new, plus workshops, a lecture, a music gig, fun events like The Screenplay Film Quiz and the ‘Spaced Out’ Mixology evening to try and ensure that there is truly something for everyone. There are hundreds of film festivals every year and we want to establish our own unique place on the ‘festival landscape’. To this end we have received a significant grant from Regional Screen Scotland to help us develop the festival, and we are, perhaps naturally, ‘looking north.’ As the UK’s most northerly film festival we will be seeking out partnerships with other festivals that are ‘most northerly’ along the North Atlantic Rim over the next couple of years and celebrating with them the similarities and the differences in our respective screen cultures. This is also the year that Wordplay and Screenplay go their own separate ways. Whilst there have been definite advantages in holding them at the same time, the benefits of allowing them both to ‘breathe’ and expand will, we believe, ultimately afford our audiences more choice. Wordplay will be held later in the year in November. We are lucky to have some excellent guests visiting us this year, including actor Brian Cox and Shetland’s own Steven Robertson. We are also proud to provide the launch-pad for a major new research project headed by Professor Linda Ruth Williams and Dr Shelley Cobb, on the role of women in 21st century British screen culture – ‘Calling The Shots”. British film directors Clio Barnard and Joanna Hogg will be joining Linda and Shelley to launch this prestigious project. As ever, we will be celebrating a wealth of home-grown film talent, which is fundamental to the vision of the festival. We would like to thank most sincerely our funding partners and supporters: Regional Screen Scotland, Shetland Film Club, J.G. Rae’s, Amnesty International Shetland, UNISON, The University of Edinburgh and the Arts and Humanities Research Council have all helped to make this year’s festival special, as have Shetland Island Council Education Department, Shetland Moving Image Archive and Edinburgh Short Film Festival. Special thanks go to the volunteers who commit so much time and energy to Screenplay, and also to our festival curators who work all year to put together what we hope will be an imaginative and exciting programme of events. We hope you will enjoy it.
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Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland, ZE1 0WQ 01595 743843 info@shetlandarts.org www.shetlandarts.org Programme correct at time of going to press. Check online for up to date programme: www.shetlandarts.org/events/screenplay Printed by: The Shetland Times Ltd, Gremista, Lerwick, Shetland
LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams have been curating Screenplay since it started in 2007. Mark has been resident film critic for BBC Radio 5 for twelve years, and also presents on BBC News and The Culture Show, and is chief film critic of The Observer. His ‘cinematic autobiography’, It’s Only A Movie, was published in 2010, followed in 2011 by The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex: What’s wrong with Modern Movies? and Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics in 2013. He has just finished a book about Silent Running, one of his favourite movies. Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film in the English Department at Southampton University, and researches into contemporary cinema, censorship and children in film. With Shelley Cobb she is now running an AHRC-funded research project entitled Calling The Shots: Women and contemporary Film Culture in the UK 2000-2015. She also completing a book on Steven Spielberg, childhood and child performers.
KATHY HUBBARD
Kathy has recently retired as Head of Development from Shetland Arts, where she worked for almost 15 years. Prior to that she worked in the criminal justice systems of England and Scotland as a probation officer, and as Criminal Justice Social Work Manager in Shetland. Born in Manchester, brought up in Wales, she has lived in Shetland for the past twenty-four years. She is now looking forward to spending more time at the cinema, looking after her small flock of ageing sheep, and starting an MLitt at the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Kathy has been involved in Screenplay for the last seven years, and it is rumoured that she has developed rectangular eyes due to excessive exposure to the cinema screen.
Photography: Billy Fox
MARK KERMODE
A WORD FROM THE CURATORS...
So much cinema – so little time! Once again we have been presented with the highly daunting - and very enjoyable – challenge of putting together a programme that will entertain, inspire and inform you, our esteemed audience. We hope you will think our efforts have been worthwhile. Looking north, we have films from Iceland, Denmark and Sweden, from wry, often dark comedies (Of Horses And Men, Either Way) to the latest in Scandinavian noir (Keeper of Lost Causes) to stirring tales of childhood and adolescence (We Are The Best!, We Shall Overcome, Eskil and Trinidad). We have films from award-winning contemporary British directors Clio Barnard (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant) and Joanna Hogg (Exhibition, Archipelago); films about the art of protest (The Bridge Rising, Windfall, Dangerous Acts); animated films (Box of Delights, Wrinkles) and films that can’t fail to inspire you, like the fabulous documentary about teenage poetry slamming, Louder Than A Bomb. This year, thanks to the generosity of sponsors, we are able to offer education screenings at Mareel, introducing children and young people to the best in world cinema. We are also delighted to welcome two visiting youth groups to the festival for the first time – Kirkwall Grammar School Film Club and SKAMM (Scottish Kids Are Making Movies) from Edinburgh. Last year in the audience feedback you asked for lectures and workshops as well as screenings, so this year we are happy to provide both. Screenwriter Norina Mackey will be giving two public seminars on writing and making short films, and there will be an illustrated lecture from Linda Ruth Williams and Shelley Cobb, who will be ‘Calling the Shots’. No Screenplay would be complete without local input, and this year we have films made about Shetland and films made by Shetlanders. Alongside the ever popular Home Made event, we are proud to be screening short films made by Shetlanders for the Glasgow 2014 Festival of the Commonwealth Games (Ebb Tide), a debut film by Bruce Eunson (Dis Quiet), a film about the proposed windfarm in Shetland (Windfall), a short horror film from the peat-hill (Trou), and a film made about one of our best Shetland poets (Nort Atlantik Drift – A Portrait of Robert Alan Jamieson). There will be family favourites, our first ever Young Film Quiz (for 10 – 16 year olds), a come-in-costume screening of Flash Gordon followed by a DJ Mixology event in the cafe bar, and a whole evening in the company of fabulous Welsh singer-songwriter, composer and film maker Gruff Rhys. We are looking forward to seeing you. Even if it’s in the dark. Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and Kathy Hubbard The Curators
No Trailers please note all films start at the scheduled screening time
ANINA
CERT: REC 8 +
78 MINS 2013
SHETLAND BOX OFFICE 01595 745555
OF HORSES AND MEN CERT: 15
81 MINS 2013
DIR: ALFREDO SODERGUIT URUGUAY/COLOMBIA
DIR: BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON ICELAND
FEDERICA LACAÑO, MARÍA MENDIVE, CÉSAR TRONCOSO
INGVAR EGGERT SIGURDSON, CHARLOTTE BØVING, MARIA ELLINGSEN
Subtitled Family Friendly Screening supported by:
Subtitled
Fri 29 Aug @ 19:00 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Sun 31 Aug @ 13:45 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Anina Yatay Salas is a ten-year-old girl who does not like her name. Each part is a ‘palindrome’, which means it reads the same both forwards and backwards. Her schoolmates are always teasing her about this, especially Anina’s arch-enemy Yisel, who Anina sees as an “elephant”. One day, Anina and Yisel get into a playground skirmish, so the school principal disciplines them with a weird punishment: they are both given a sealed black envelope which they are not allowed to open for an entire week. Haunted by nightmares and day-dreams, Anina in her anxiousness to find out what horrible punishment awaits her, will get mixed up in a series of adventures, involving secret loves, close friendships and dreadful enemies. Without her realising it, Anina’s efforts to understand the content of the envelope turns into a journey to understand the world and her place in it. Lovely, family friendly film and a super way to introduce children (and adults!) to subtitled cinema. SCREENPLAY 4
Fri 29 Aug @ 19:30 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Thu 4 Sept @ 14:30 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Mon 1 Sept @ 14:30 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Fri 5 Sept @ 19:00 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Wed 3 Sept @ 19:30 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Sun 7 Sept @ 20:15 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced with immense consequences, and the fortunes of the people are viewed through the horses’ perception. Winner of the Best New Director award at the San Sebastián Film Festival and numerous accolades internationally, Benedikt Erlingsson’s critically acclaimed debut feature is a darkly comedic, episodic tale of the lives of a remote Icelandic community and the deeply intertwined and highly emotive relationships with their horses. Unique, engaging and beautifully shot, it was Iceland’s official submission for the 2014 Oscars and won in six categories at the 2014 Edda Awards (The Icelandic Film and Television Academy), including Director of the Year, Screenplay of the Year and Best Film.
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Refreshments are available from the Foyer or Cafe Bar
WE ARE THE BEST!
CERT: 15 102 MINS 2013 DIR: LUKAS MOODYSSON SWEDEN LIV LEMOYNE, MIRA BARKHAMMAR, MIRA GROSIN
Subtitled Fri 29 Aug @ 21:30 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Mon 1 Sept @ 21:15 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00 Sat 6 Sept @ 19:30 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Lukas Moodysson's adaptation of his wife Coco's graphic novel about three young misfits growing up in early '80s Stockholm. Pixieish, mohawk-sporting Klara (Mira Grosin) and her best friend Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) are 13-yearold rebels looking for a cause. Despite having no instruments or discernible musical talent, the two put all their energy into forming an all-girl punk band, recruiting their shy, classical guitar-playing schoolmate Hedvig (Liv LeMoyne) as the third wheel. With tender affection for his young characters and the period in which his film is set, Moodysson paints an ebullient and sharply observant portrait of DIY spirit and growing up different. Sweet, empathetic, and shot through with a palpable joy, We Are the Best! offers a tender tribute to the bittersweet tumult of adolescence.
EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION
CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING, 10 YEARS AND OVER 60 MINUTES 2010
DIR: VARIOUS UK
Shetland Arts is grateful to Paul Bruce and the ESFF for enabling this screening. Fri 29 Aug @ 22:00 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.00
Mon 1 Sept @ 18:15 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.00
Sat 30 Aug @ 13:30 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.00
Fri 5 Sept @ 16:00 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.00
Sun 31 Aug @ 19:15 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.00 A selection of short films from the Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2014. “The Edinburgh Short Film Festival began in 2011 – evolving from the Leith Short Film Festival – and has built up a reputation for screening the best contemporary British and International short films, with an eclectic, offbeat and and entertaining programme that has included the first film made in Somalia for twenty years as well as shorts screened in city basements and pavement cafes. The ESFF has often held film exchanges with Italian and other overseas festivals and we’re delighted to be able to present the best films from our 2014 edition for the Screenplay Festival. We hope you enjoy the selection, which includes films from the Caribbean, Italy, and Russia amongst others! ” Paul Bruce, ESFF Director SCREENPLAY 5
BOX OF DELIGHTS CERT: U
Sat 30 Aug @ 11:30 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Thu 4 Sept @ 16:00 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Nine award-winning short films from the British Animation Awards, specially selected for 8-12s. An amazing variety of animation techniques from filmmakers around Europe, exploring stories and themes full of creativity and humour
Sun 31 Aug @ 14:00 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Sun 7 Sept @ 11:15 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
OFFICE NOISE
AKBAR’S CHEETAH
RABBIT RABBIT
NICOLAS AND GUILLEMETTE
LIFELINE
74 MINUTES 2012 DIR: VARIOUS UK
Mads Johansen, Torben Søttrup, Karsten Madsen, Lærke Enemark Denmark 2009 4 min The last thing a busy chicken needs at work is an accident-prone elephant at the next desk.
BETWEEN TWO CRUMBS
Sylvain Ollier France 2005 5 min Watch out, tiny dust mites! Your adventure to find food might get you squished!
Mon 1 Sept @ 16:45 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Iain Gardner UK 1999 6 min The magical tale of a beautiful cheetah who did not want to be the Emperor’s pet all the time.
Virginie Taravel France 2008 9’30 min One night in a shop full of Scooby strings, a little musician character comes to life; can he make himself a friend without getting a bit tangled up?
WHAT LIGHT THROUGH INUKSHUK Camillelvis Thery France 2008 9 min YONDER WINDOW On a hot, sunny day on an island of BREAKS ice, the polar bear and Inuk man peer Sarah Wickens UK 2009 4’30 min Sunlight through a window is transformed together into the deep dark sea. into cheeky shapes and characters, creating havoc in the tidy room.
Daniel Greaves UK 2006 2 min With a jump and a hop and a leap, two rabbits become four and then eight and then more! Angela Steffen Germany 2009 6 min A little girl finds beauty in a leaf but her father sees only decay. Can they find a way to be together?
FLATWORLD
Daniel Greaves UK 1997 28 min For a man and his pet cat and fish, their boring if ordinary life explodes into the anarchy of competing TV channels and characters; he who holds the remote control
ESKIL & TRINIDAD Subtitled CERT: REC 12A
104 MINS 2013
DIR: STEPHAN APELGREN SWEDEN ECFA AWARD - BEST EUROPEAN FILM FOR CHILDREN LINUS OSCARSSON, ANN PETRÉN, TORKEL PETERSSON
Eskil, an 11 year-old boy, moves from town to town constantly with his engineer dad in frigid Northern Sweden. He misses his Danish mother and is hopeless at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age, and his father’s former passion and profession. SCREENPLAY 6
Sat 30 Aug @ 15:15 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Sat 6 Sept @ 14:45 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Things change when Eskil meets a girl who loves hockey but is excluded from the team. Trading places, Eskil is free of his father’s expectations. He befriends an old woman, Trinidad, an unusual character who lives outside society, spending her time building
a wooden ship in a shed to sail south to the Caribbean. Sharing her fascination with boats, Eskil escapes his life to help Trinidad. New and unexpected possibilities begin to open up when Eskil starts to chart his own course and is inspired to pursue his own dreams.
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GREGORY'S GIRL
CERT: 12A 91 MINS 1981
ERNEST & CELESTINE CERT: U
80 MINS 2012
DIR: VINCENT PATAR, STÉPHANE AUBIER, BENJAMIN RENNER FRANCE FOREST WHITAKER, LAMBERT WILSON, PAULINE BRUNNER, LAUREN BACALL
Family Friendly Sat 30 Aug @ 11:00 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Thu 4 Sept @ 16:45 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Sun 31 Aug @ 11:30 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Sat 6 Sept @ 13:15 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Babes in Arms Screening Mon 1 Sept @ 11:00 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Sun 7 Sept @ 13:30 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Tue 2 Sept @ 16:30 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Ernest & Celestine joyfully captures the limitless possibilities of animated storytelling. Like a gorgeous watercolour painting brought to life, a constantly shifting pastel colour palette bursts and drips across the screen, while wonderful storytelling and brilliant comic timing draw up influences as varied as Buster Keaton and Bugs Bunny. Ernest & Celestine was a 2014 Oscar nominee for best animated feature, was awarded 2013 Best Animated Feature by LA Film Critics Association, won the Cesar Award in France, and has played Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and other prestigious film festivals.
DIR: BILL FORSYTH UK JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR, DEE HEPBURN, JAKE D'ARCY
Sat 30 Aug @ 17:30 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Sun 31 Aug @ 11:15 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00 Wed 3 Sept @ 14:00 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 Scottish director Bill Forsyth's first international hit, a typically quirky comedy set amongst the teenagers of a Scottish 'new town'. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is a normal, gangly, hormonally-challenged student who, like his pals, has begun to discover the charms of the opposite sex, particularly those of Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), the new girl in school and a talented football player. Dorothy joins the team, and Gregory instantly becomes smitten with her. Gregory's affections are a given in spite of the fact that Dorothy is a better player than most of the boys on the hapless team, and her presence inspires a great deal of angst and embarrassment. Gregory is prepared to go to humiliating lengths in order to win Dorothy's attention, but it doesn't quite work out as he anticipates. Someone else has eyes for Gregory. Who will be Gregory's girl? Lovely, feel-good family film that is sure to have you grinning as you leave the cinema. SCREENPLAY 7
Shetland Arts is grateful to the University of Edinburgh for their support of this screening.
THE BRIDGE RISING CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING
NORT ATLANTIK DRIFT CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING
100 MINS INC Q&A 2013
DIR: SUSAN KEMP SCOTLAND
DIR: ROBBIE FRASER
Screening followed by a Q&A Sun 31 Aug @ 16:00 Screen 1, Mareel £6.00/£4.00
CANADA/SCOTLAND
Followed by a Q&A session with Executive Producer Lucinda Broadbent Sat 30 Aug @ 13:15 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 The epic, feel-good story of a modern rebellion. The campaign against the tolls on the Skye bridge pitted plucky Scottish islanders against the might of the government and the Bank of America, over the building of a privately funded toll bridge which became the only way on or off the island. Unpacking the twists and turns of this ten year battle, this documentary film tells an untold, bittersweet story of passion, legal challenge and financial wrangling through the testimony of some of those who took part. The story is told with an air of mischief and unfolds against the backdrop of stunning scenery and a powerful musical score.
LUCINDA BROADBENT
Lucinda Broadbent has been making documentary films for over 20 years, specialising in Human Rights themes. She is based in Glasgow, one of the founder members of www.mediaco-op.net.
110 MINS INC Q&A 2014
ROBERT ALAN JAMIESON
OUTREACH SCREENINGS Fri 29 Aug @ 19:30 Sandness Hall £3.00/£2.00 at the door Tue 2 Sept @ 19:15 Fair Isle Hall £3.00/£2.00 at the door Novelist and poet, Robert Alan Jamieson grew up in the crofting community of Sandness, Shetland. This film is based on his collection of poems 'Nort Atlantik Drift', described by Jamieson as originally intended ‘for my three sons, a record of who their father might be and who he once thought he might be. But as with life, the narrative developed in ways I didn’t foresee’. The same could be said of the film as less than a week before filming began Alan's father died at the age of eighty-four – as with life, the narrative of the film developed in ways Alan could not have foreseen. Robert Alan Jamieson and Susan Kemp will attend the screening to participate in a Q&A chaired by Mary Blance of Shetland ForWirds.
ROBERT ALAN JAMIESON Robert Alan Jamieson was
born in 1958, and grew up in Sandness. He studied literature at the University of Edinburgh, after which he was William Soutar Fellow in Perth and Writer in Residence at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. Since 1993, he has pioneered the tuition of Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now a Senior Lecturer. His work includes the novels Soor Hearts (1984), Thin Wealth (1986) – both set in Shetland – and A Day at the Office (1991), and two full collections of poetry, Shoormal (1986) and Nort Atlantik Drift (2007). He has also written for the stage and has edited a number of anthologies. His novel Da Happie Laand was published in summer 2010 by Luath Press, and was shortlisted for a Saltire Award.
SUSAN KEMP Susan Kemp joined Edinburgh
University in 2010 to work as co-director of the new MSc in Film, Exhibition & Curation alongside her jobshare colleague, Jane Sillars. Before that she was a producer/ director working for the BBC, making a wide range of documentary series and factual programmes. Susan has also worked as a film programmer, in particular she worked in a variety of roles for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. More recently Susan has created collaborative opportunities for students to work with two of the UK’s top film festivals and researchers at the University on projects such as, ‘The Stasi Are Among US’, ‘Weimarvellous’, ‘Carnival featuring Black Orpheus’ and ‘Nort Atlantik Drift: A Day of Shetland.’
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Doors open 15 minutes before scheduled screening times
EBB TIDE
CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING 90 MINS INC Q&A 2014 DIR: VARIOUS SHETLAND
There will be a Q&A with the film makers after the screening Sat 30 Aug @ 15:45 Screen 1, Mareel £5.00/£4.00 Eight Shetland based film-makers and artists produced six short films inspired by an artefact or story with a link to a Commonwealth country and Shetland. The films were shown in Glasgow on board the Tall Ship “Glenlea” as part of the cultural programme surrounding the Commonwealth Games during July, and on large screens throughout the city. The filmmakers worked alongside the Shetland Heritage Association to choose which story or artefact they would portray. The Ebb Tide project, a partnership between the Shetland Moving Image Archive, Shetland Arts, the Shetland Heritage Association and Creative Scotland, enabled these artists and film-makers to explore new ways of working and give them the opportunity to have their work shown to a national and international audience in Glasgow. Screenplay is delighted to host the first screenings of the films to a local audience.
A PORTRAIT – IN LANDSCAPE 05.10
Ria Bruce & Simon Thompson
OLD ROCK 13.55 Bobby Gear
BUTTERFLY EFFECT 06.52 Tirval Scott
FIERCE WORK 14.44 Harry Whitham
& Floortje Robertson
FLOTSAM 05.06 Clint Watt
ELYSIA 06.16 Greg McCarron
DIS QUIET
CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING 90 MINS INC Q&A 2014 DIR: BRUCE EUNSON, ANDREW LOWES SHETLAND BRUCE EUNSON, RIA MONCRIEFF
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film makers Sat 30 Aug @ 18:00 Screen 1, Mareel Free The film is set on the croft where Samuel Laurence lived and the voe to which he walked. Samuel Laurence is an unpublished Shetland-born, dialect-writing poet, whose diaries and literary output has only now been available to anyone beyond himself. His writing is constantly stepping into Shetland’s landscape, with every word seeking to both describe and catch the beauty available to someone living in Shetland and seeing the seasons pass. The film is a visual poem: always attempting to fully embrace its cinematic potential, as well as being a filmed-version of a literary text. All the narration in the film is taken from the writings of Samuel Laurence, and all of Samuel Laurence’s writings were taken from looking at Shetland. The film asks “What did Samuel Laurence say about Shetland, and how well can we as filmmakers display this on screen?”
SCREENPLAY 9
WE SHALL OVERCOME CERT: 12A
109 MINS 2006
DIR: NIELS ARDEN OPLEV DENMARK
BENT MEJDING, ANDERS W BERTHELSEN, KURT RAVN
Subtitled Sat 30 Aug @ 19:40 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Mon 1 Sept @ 15:45 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 Tue 2 Sept @ 18:45 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00 Wed 3 Sept @ 16:45 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 Fri 5 Sept @ 16:15 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
SCREENPLAY 10
It’s 1969 in provincial Denmark and 13 year old Frits is being bullied by his brutal headmaster as well as trying to cope with his father’s breakdown and keep his family together. Listening to records of Martin Luther King’s speeches gives Frits the inspiration to fight back at the old world repressive regimes at work in his community and spread the winds of change.
This award-winning family film is beautifully acted and sensitively directed, full of exquisite moments both painful and pleasurable and with a central character that we are rooting for all the way. The film will have additional appeal to fans of recent Scandinavian crime drama, featuring performances from Bent Mejding, Anders W. Berthelsen and Kurt Ravn, all familiar faces to fans of The Killing, seen here in a very different 1960s context.
STEVEN ROBERTSON
Shetland Arts is delighted to welcome Steven Robertson to the festival this year. Steven Robertson is from Lunnasting on the north east of mainland Shetland. He attended the Vidlin primary school, Brae Junior High and the Anderson High School. After working locally and then attending college in Fife he was then accepted to train for three years on the BA (Honours) Acting course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since graduating in 2002, Steven has played many roles in theatre, television, radio and film. He has many stage credits and his television credits include Mullet in The Race, The Millbury Twins in Luther, Mr Rook in Being Human, and most recently Sandy Wilson in Shetland. His film credits include, Survivor, The Comedian, The Tourist, Neds, Brighton Rock, Five Days of War, The Boys Are Back, Red Riding, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Sugarhouse, Straightheads, True North, The Kingdom of Heaven, The Libertine, Inside I’m Dancing – which won awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, British Independent Film Awards, IFTA Awards, and London Critics Circle Film Awards – and Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas), which was nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and seven César Awards.
INSIDE I'M DANCING
JOYEUX NOËL
CERT: 15
CERT: 12A
135 MINS INC Q&A 2004
116 MINS 2005
DIR: DAMIEN O'DONNELL UK/FRANCE/IRELAND
DIR: CHRISTIAN CARION FRANCE
STEVEN ROBERTSON, JAMES MCAVOY
STEVEN ROBERTSON, DIANE KRUGER,
AND ROMOLA GARAI
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Steven Robertson Sat 30 Aug @ 20:15 Screen 1, Mareel £9.00/£7.00 Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) is a 24-year-old with cerebral palsy who is a long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled run by the formidable Eileen (Brenda Fricker). His life, mundane and schedule-driven by the institution's authorities, is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea (James McAvoy), who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suddenly moves in. Michael is stunned to discover that fast talking Rory, prone to lewd and/or overt jokes at unpredictable intervals, and who can move only his right hand, can understand his almost unintelligible speech. Rory's dynamic and rebellious nature soon sparks a flame in Michael, introducing him to the wider world outside of Carrigmore.
BENNO FÜRMANN
Subtitled Thu 4 Sept @ 19:00 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00 When war breaks out in the lull of summer 1914, it surprises and pulls millions of men in its wake. Christmas arrives, with its snow and multitude of family and army presents. But the surprise won't come from inside the generous parcels which lie in the French, Scottish, and German trenches. That night, a momentous event will turn the destinies of four characters: an Anglican priest, a French lieutenant, an exceptional German tenor and the woman he loves, who is his singing partner. During this Christmas Eve, the unthinkable happens: soldiers come out of their trenches, leaving their rifles behind to shake hands with the enemy.
SCREENPLAY 11
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Doors open 15 minutes before scheduled screening times
EITHER WAY CERT: 15
85 MINS 2011
DIR: HAFSTEINN GUNNAR SIGURDSSON ICELAND HILMAR GUDJÓNSSON, SVEINN ÓLAFUR GUNNARSSON, ORSTEINN BACHMANN
Subtitled Sat 30 Aug @ 22:00 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Fri 5 Sept @ 14:00 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Mon 1 Sept @ 13:30 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Sun 7 Sept @ 15:45 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Alfred (Hilmar Guðjónsson) and Finnbogi (Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson) work together painting the dividing lines on Icelandic public roads, in a sparse and uninhabited landscape. Having only each other for company – being visited sporadically by a jovial trucker plying them with drink – the two men’s personal differences are the source of equal parts laughter and frustration. Writer/ Director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson has created a carefully paced comedy of opposites – between stillness and slapstick, activity and inertia and silence broken by thumping electro.
THE BOXTROLLS 3D CERT: PG
100 MINS 2014
DIR: GRAHAM ANNABLE, ANTHONY STACCHI USA ELLE FANNING, SIMON PEGG, TONI COLLETTE
This is a special preview by kind permission of the distributors - it will be returning to Mareel in 3D and 2D later in September. Family Friendly Sat 6 Sept @ 11:00 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Sun 7 Sept @ 11:30 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Screenplay is delighted to offer a special preview of the new 3D stopmotion comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class, and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl out of the sewers at night and steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. At least, that’s the legend residents have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells. The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy, Eggs, since infancy as one of their dumpster-diving and mechanical junk-collecting own. The Boxtrolls are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher, who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society. SCREENPLAY 12
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WORKSHOPS & LECTURES NORINA MACKEY
WRITING YOUR SHORT FILM PARAMETERS AND LIMITATIONS
Led by Norina Mackey Suitable for all budding film makers This workshop addresses the difficulties of creating the script for a short film. From the initial concept through to production, the journey of the short script can be altered by complications such as a low budget, limited resources and often limited time. In this workshop we will take a look at these issues and identify ways of using them to your advantage to create a strong short film script. Beneficial for anyone interesting in making a successful short film. Sun 31 Aug @ 11:00 120 mins Green Room, Mareel £10.00
SCREENWRITING SEMINAR Led by Norina Mackey Suitable for beginners to advanced. Whether you have extensive screenwriting experience and want some new tips or you are a complete novice with a curiosity about the craft, this seminar will give you an insight into the process of screenwriting along with some fundamental guidance on the professional techniques of writing your screenplay. Mon 1 Sept @ 19:00 60 mins Green Room, Mareel £7.00
Norina is an Irish writer who graduated with a Masters Degree in Screenwriting from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, in 2011. She has worked on several feature films and short films both as the main writer and as a script editor. Her first produced feature film, “The Floating Man”, screened at the Genesis cinema in London and London’s 15th Rainbow Film Festival as well as being aired on Sky TV. Her short film, “Killer Heels”, which was directed by and starred the high profile stunt actress Amanda Foster, was screened at both Cannes and the Marbella International Film festival and won the Best Newcomer Award at the Portobello Film Festival in 2013. Norina was the assistant producer on the feature length documentary film, “1 Way Up”, which was produced by Jet Set Films and the Oscar winning production company Shine Global.
CALLING THE SHOTS WHERE (AND WHO) ARE THE WOMEN?
SHELLEY COBB LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS Professor Linda Ruth Williams and Dr Shelley Cobb are leading an exciting new AHRC-funded project, Calling the Shots: Women in Contemporary Film Culture, 2000-2015. Linda is Professor of Film at Southampton University and author of many books and articles on contemporary cinema, gender and culture. In June 2014 she was chair of the Short Films Jury at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Shelley is a lecturer at Southampton University and recently finished her book, Authorship, Adaptation and Contemporary Women’s Film-Making which will be published by Palgrave MacMillan in November. She also writes about celebrity culture and the representation of women in Hollywood.
Shelley Cobb and Linda Ruth Williams are heading up a new four year research project investigating women filmmakers in the UK from 2000-2015, asking why there are so few women in key filmmaking roles, as well as celebrating the fact that women have helmed some of the most successful and innovative British films of recent times. Famous names include Phyllida Lloyd (director of Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady), Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin and Ratcatcher) and Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice), but less wellknown women also directed hugely popular recent titles such as Nativity! (Debbie Isitt) and StreetDance 3D (co-directed by Dania Pasquini). This lively presentation will be illustrated by clips and examples (including the fabulous work of our guests Clio Barnard and Joanna Hogg), and will conclude with a panel discussion and questions. Sat 6 Sept @ 12:00 90 mins Auditorium, Mareel Free SCREENPLAY 13
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FROM SCOTLAND WITH LOVE CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING 70 MINS 2014 DIR: VIRGINIA HEATH SCOTLAND
WRINKLES CERT: 15
Sun 31 Aug @ 18:20 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
89 MINS 2011
DIR: IGNACIO FERRERAS SPAIN MARTIN SHEEN, MATTHEW MODINE, GEORGE COE
Dubbed Sun 31 Aug @ 17:00 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Tue 2 Sept @ 16:45 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Mon 1 Sept @ 18:45 Screen 1, Mareel £6.00/£4.00
Fri 5 Sept @ 14:15 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Martin Sheen (The West Wing, The Departed), Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises, Weeds), and George Coe (Funny People, Archer) lead a cast of eccentric characters who rebel against authority in this wonderfully animated and poignant comedy for adults. The story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. His new room-mate is a wily wheeler-dealer named Miguel, who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more befuddled residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates, and night-time joyrides, as the reality of Emilio’s future life begins to sink in. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles moves freely between the inmates’ daily routines and their more colorful, dementia-induced fantasies, leaving plenty of room for both tears and laughter as it pokes pointed fun at society’s attitude towards the elderly. SCREENPLAY 14
Sat 6 Sept @ 18:10 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00 Sun 7 Sept @ 18:15 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00 Made entirely of Scottish film archive footage, a journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote’s poetic music and lyrics. Part of the Glasgow 2014 Festival.
THE KEEPER OF LOST LOUDER THAN A CAUSES BOMB CERT: 15
97 MINS 2013
DIR: MIKKEL NØRGAARD DENMARK
CERT: REC 12A
99 MINS 2010
DIR: GREG JACOBS AND JON SISKEL USA
NIKOLAJ LIE KAAS, FARES FARES, SONJA RICHTER
Subtitled Sun 31 Aug @ 20:15 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Thu 4 Sept @ 21:00 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Tue 2 Sept @ 14:15 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Sat 6 Sept @ 21:45 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
Senior Screening Wed 3 Sept @ 14:30 Screen 1, Mareel £5 (inc tea or coffee) Following a shootout that left his two partners respectively dead and paralyzed, chief detective Carl Mørck is assigned to the newly established Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. The department consists only of himself and his new assistant Assad. Although they get explicit orders to simply read and sort through the cases, only a single day passes before Carl's stubborn nature throws them headfirst into the mystery of Merete Lynggaard's disappearance; a well-known female politician who vanished five years ago from a passenger ferry. The only witness is her braindamaged brother who was found on the car deck, screaming at the top of his lungs. The case was put to rest as an apparent suicide. Unconvinced by this explanation Carl and Assad venture on a journey that will take them deep into the undercurrent of abuse and malice that lurks beneath the polished surface of Scandinavia. A fine addition to the current raft of Scandinavian noir cinema.
Sun 31 Aug @ 21:00 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Wed 3 Sept @ 17:00 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50
Tue 2 Sept @ 14:00 Screen 2, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 This is a film about passion, competition, teamwork, and trust. It’s about the joy of being young, and the pain of growing up. It’s about speaking out, making noise, and finding your voice. It also just happens to be about poetry. Every year, more than six hundred teenagers from over sixty Chicago area schools gather for the world’s largest youth poetry slam, a competition known as “Louder Than a Bomb”. Founded in 2001, Louder Than a Bomb is a youth poetry slam built from the beginning around teams. Rather than emphasize individual poets and performances, the structure of Louder Than a Bomb demands that kids work collaboratively with their peers, presenting, critiquing, and rewriting their pieces. To succeed, teams have to create an environment of mutual trust and support. For many kids, being a part of such an environment – in an academic context – is life-changing. The film chronicles the stereotype-confounding stories of four teams as they prepare for and compete in the 2008 event. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, it captures the tempestuous lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. This is not “high school poetry” as we often think of it. This is language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance. How and why they do it – and the community they create along the way -is the story at the heart of this wonderful film. We guarantee that you will leave the cinema inspired. SCREENPLAY 15
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YOUNG FILM QUIZ
SHORT FILMS BY ALEXANDRE PHILIPPE CERT: SUITABLE FOR 12 YEARS AND OVER 35 MINUTES IN TOTAL DIR: ALEXANDRE PHILIPPE USA
Sun 31 Aug @ 22:30 Screen 1, Mareel Free
Tue 2 Sept @ 21:45 Screen 1, Mareel Free
Mon 1 Sept @ 20:00 Screen 2, Mareel Free
Sat 6 Sept @ 13:30 Screen 2, Mareel Free
Alexandre Philippe, better known in Shetland for his wry, affectionate documentaries like The People vs George Lucas, The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus, and Doc of the Dead, has another creative life as an award-winning short film maker. In these three elegant and exquisitely shot short films, we see ‘artist moving image’ film-making at its very best.
LEFT
An impressionistic short film largely inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s paintings Christina’s World and Helga, LEFT centres around the heartbreaking separation between a woman and the man she loves. Devoid of dialogue, this haunting and operatic film poetically reveals the grief of a woman trapped by the memory of her husband’s departure in the midst of windswept grasslands.
THE SPOT November 22, 1963. A day that America and the world will never forget. Four decades later, as Dallas makes strides as a 21st century city, the spot where President Kennedy was shockingly assassinated remains eerily and forever frozen in time. With a unique emphasis on evocative imagery and sound design, THE SPOT impressionistically and voyeuristically exposes the strange happenings taking place every day around Dealey Plaza (Dallas, Texas) – a prosaic site, made significant by the event that has come to define it. THE SPOT was actually shot in one day, from dawn ’til dusk.
INSIDE Experienced through the distorted lens of its ten year-old protagonist, INSIDE explores the subtle emotional damage caused by a reckless extramarital affair on a child left in its wake. Allegorical, dreamlike and atemporal, this tragic coming-of-age story dramatizes the painful wait of a little girl ultimately forced to repudiate her father, and speaks of the devastating consequences of the carelessness of adults.
SCREENPLAY 16
(10 - 16 yrs) Mareel’s infamous monthly film quiz designed for the first time for young people aged 10 – 16. The usual rules apply – teams of no more than six to a table and book your table in advance. Head-scratching questions and fun activities! Take our advice and make sure your team includes a wide range of members and film interests …. you will need all the help you can get. Daft prizes (it’s the glory that counts) and lots of fun. Why not get a team together from your school, youth club or neighbours? See you there! Sun 31 Aug @ 14:30 120 mins Auditorium, Mareel Free
FESTIVAL FILM QUIZ
Mareel’s monthly film quiz gets a special festival makeover, with Screenplay curators Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams in the quizmasters’ seats. We’re hoping to see all our regular teams, plus some new contenders, for an evening that will be both fiendish and fun. Book your table quickly as this is always a popular event – the Quiz Team are promising something extra special and you can be a contender! Teams of no more than six, bring your wit, your cinema know-how … and your imagination. Wed 3 Sept @ 19:30 195 mins Auditorium, Mareel £5.00 per table
DANGEROUS ACTS STARRING THE UNSTABLE ELEMENTS OF BELARUS CERT: 15 76 MINS (120 MINS WITH Q&A) 2013 DIR: MADELEINE SACKLER USA THE BELARUS FREE THEATRE COMPANY
Some subtitling Shetland Arts is grateful to Amnesty International Shetland for their support of this film.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Pasquale Iannone Tue 2 Sept @ 19:15 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Wed 3 Sept @ 21:30 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Thu 4 Sept @ 21:45 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Creating provocative theatre carries great personal risks: emotional, financial and artistic. For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, there are additional risks: censorship, imprisonment, and worse. Director Madeleine Sackler goes behind the scenes with the acclaimed troupe of imaginative and subversive performers who, in a desolate country choked by censorship and repression, defy Europe’s last remaining dictatorship. When authorities forbid critical examinations of such topics as sexual orientation, alcoholism, suicide and politics, the Free Theatre responds by injecting these taboos into performances that are staged 'underground'. And yet, because of the power of their message, they receive critical acclaim overseas.
DR PASQUALE IANNONE Dr. Pasquale Iannone is a film academic and critic based in Edinburgh. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound as well as various BBC Radio programmes. His film curation work includes seasons at BFI Southbank, Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
This documentary picks up the story in 2010 when the KGB is cracking down on dissenters, sixteen years after Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko takes power during the breakup of the Soviet Union. Now, as a dubious new presidential election looms, the KGB targets the Free Theatre's founders Nicolai Khalezin, Natalia Koliada and Vladimir Shcherban, who, along with their colleagues, find themselves torn between fighting for their art and for their and their families’ safety. Comprised of smuggled footage and uncensored interviews, Dangerous Acts gives audiences a front row seat to a resistance movement as it unfolds both on the stage and in the streets. As the members of the Free Theatre confront the choice of either repression at home or exile in the US and the UK, Dangerous Acts reconfirms our belief that the power of art and hope can indeed change the world. SCREENPLAY 17
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EXHIBITION
ARCHIPELAGO
DIR: JOANNA HOGG UK
DIR: JOANNA HOGG UK
VIV ALBERTINE, LIAM GILLICK, TOM HIDDLESTONE
TOM HIDDLESTON, KATE FAHY, LYDIA LEONARD
CERT: 15
CERT: 15
104 MINS 2013
Mon 1 Sept @ 21:00 Screen 1, Mareel £6.00/£4.00
Wed 3 Sept @ 20:00 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
When artists D (Viv Albertine) and H (Liam Gillick) decide to sell the beautiful Modernist home they have loved and lived in for two decades, they begin a process of saying goodbye to their shared history under the same roof. The upheaval causes anxieties to surface, and wife and performance artist D struggles to control the personal and creative aspects of her life with H. Dreams, memories, fears, have all imprinted themselves on their home, which exists as a container for their lives and has played such an important role in their relationship. Shot in Hogg’s characteristic sustained, wide takes, and acted with astonishing candour, this is a profoundly engaging exercise in intellectual secondguessing as the characters keep their emotions all but completely in check. It’s also a stylish take on the single-location drama, in which the framing and editing match the architectural minimalism of a house full of clues to its inhabitants’ inner lives.
JOANNA HOGG
Joanna Hogg is a London based filmmaker. She started her career as a photographer, before studying at the National Film & Television School. After ten years directing television drama she made her feature debut with Unrelated (2007), winning numerous awards including the FIPRESCI prize at the London Film Festival, the Guardian First Film Award, and Most Promising Newcomer at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.
140 MINS INC Q&A 2010
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Joanna Hogg Sat 6 Sept @ 15:15 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Archipelago is a quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis. Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell trip to say goodbye to Edward. Hired cook Rose (Amy Lloyd) and painting teacher Christopher (Christopher Baker), though bought in to help, only serve to bring the family’s anxieties into sharper focus. When Edward’s father is delayed, the unspoken forces of absence and loss bring the family’s buried anger and repressed tension to the surface. Sad, funny and wise in equal measure, Archipelago finds writer-director Joanna Hogg in incredibly strong and confident form.
Her second film Archipelago (2010) received a Special Commendation at the London Film Festival for their Best Film award. It was greeted with similar critical enthusiasm upon its release through Artificial Eye, and provoked much comment and debate. In 2011 she co-founded the collective A Nos Amours, dedicated to programming overlooked, under-exposed or especially potent cinema. She has completed her third feature film Exhibition (2013) starring Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick.
GRUFF RHYS IN CONCERT: AMERICAN INTERIOR Doors 8.00pm. Start 8.30pm Thu 4 Sept @ 20:30 Auditorium, Mareel £16.00/£14.00
AMERICAN INTERIOR CERT: 12A 120 MINS INC Q&A 2014 DIR: DYLAN GOCH UK
GRUFF RHYS
Includes Q&A with Gruff Rhys Thu 4 Sept @ 18:00 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Welsh cult musician Gruff Rhys documents his latest musical odyssey, retracing the fantastical American journey of his 18th Century relative, the explorer John Evans. In 1792, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether there was, as widely believed, a Welsh-speaking Native American tribe – The Madogwys – still walking the Great Plains. During the course of an extraordinary adventure, Evans wrestled the largest river reptiles ever seen in the Mississippi, hunted bison with the Omaha tribe, defected to the Spanish in St Louis, discovered imaginary volcanoes in Missouri, annexed North Dakota from the British, and created the map that guided Lewis and Clark on their legendary expedition. In the summer of 2012, over two hundred years later, Gruff retraced his (extremely) great uncle’s route through the heart of the continent by means of an “Investigative Concert Tour ™” – a series of solo gigs that saw him accompanied by little more than acoustic guitar, PowerPoint presentation and a three-foot high felt avatar of John Evans. Starting at Yale University’s Beinecke Library where Evans’ famous map is said to reside, Rhys fully immerses himself in concerts, recording sessions, and conversations with journalists, academics, psychiatrists, and locals on Evans’ route. From Baltimore to St. Louis, up to the Mandan Reservation of North Dakota and down the Mississippi basin to the Old Governor’s house in New Orleans. Rhys investigates Evans’s significance in American history, the true circumstances of his death, and the lost location of his final resting place. American Interior is an exploration of how wild fantasies interact with hard history and how myth-making can inspire humans to partake in crazy, vain pursuits of glory, including exploration, war and the creative arts.
GRUFF RHYS
Gruff has played in numerous bands, but is probably best known for his work with Super Furry Animals. Alumni of the Welsh-language music scene of the 1980s, Super Furry Animals (SFA) came together in 1993. The band members – Gruff Rhys, Dafydd Ieuan, Cian Ciaran, Huw Bunford and Guto Pryce – often swap roles in the studio, chopping and changing musical styles with the same cheerful abandon, and often within the context of a single song. Signing to Creation Records, the home of Oasis, in 1995, SFA managed to swerve every dull Britpop cliché to which their label-mates fell victim. Over the rest of the decade and on throughout the next they delivered a string of critically acclaimed albums, mixing classic songwriting with a healthy disregard for the conventions of the industry. Along the way they outlasted their label (Creation went under at the turn of the millennium), scored the biggest-selling Welsh language album of all time (until Bryn Terfel brought out his Christmas album later that year), turned down a seven-figure offer for the use of their song “Hello Sunshine” in a Coca-Cola commercial (citing alleged malpractice and suppression of workers’ rights on the part of the drinks firm), and bought an Army surplus armoured vehicle, which they painted blue and refitted with speakers for use as a “techno tank” at festivals. Alongside his SFA commitments, Gruff has released a series of well-received solo albums. He has collaborated with, amongst others, Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz project, Mogwai, Sparklehorse and Manic Street Preachers. Gruff certainly flies the flag for Wales, its language and its culture, however far it takes him. He set out in search of one of his distant relations to South America in his first film, ‘Separado’. An even more remote ancestor, the eighteenth-century cartographer John Evans of Waunfawr, was the inspiration for Gruff’s latest project, American Interior.
SCREENPLAY 19
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HOME MADE
FLASH GORDON
CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING
CERT: PG
SAM L JONES, MELODY ANDERSON, MAX VON SYDOW, BRIAN BLESSED
90 MINUTES 2014
Fri 5 Sept @ 20:00 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00
DIR: VARIOUS SHETLAND
Fri 5 Sept @ 18:00 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 The annual Screenplay celebration of Shetland film makers is always an audience favourite. This year’s crop of films no longer than five minutes each is as varied and as interesting as ever, from film makers of all ages. It will also include Maddrim Media’s Film Made in 24 Hours on a theme selected by an audience the previous day, and this year they will be joined by SKAMM, a visiting group of young film makers from Edinburgh. Don’t miss it!
111 MINS 1980 DIR: MIKE HODGES USA/UK
In this gloriously kitsch update of the 1930s comic strip, Flash Gordon (Sam L Jones) is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Hans Zarkov’s rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden (Melody Anderson). The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, ruled by Emperor Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow). Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming’s daughter, and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world. With a fabulous soundtrack from Queen, this is a hugely enjoyable film that has acquired cult status. There will be a ‘Spaced Out’ themed Mixology event in the Mareel Cafe Bar afterwards, with cocktails, mocktails and spacethemed sets from DJ Lyall and DJ John Collins. Come dressed as whatever space or science fiction character you choose! And get ready to kick some Flash… you only have fourteen hours to save the Earth! Fly, my brave Hawkmen!
TROU CERT: NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN 30 MINS INC Q&A 2014 DIR: J.J. JAMIESON WRITER: JOANNE JAMIESON SHETLAND JOYCE WARK, DAVY COOPER, KEITH WILLIAMSON
Showing as part of Screenplay's annual "Fleeting Horror" series. There will be a Q&A with JJ after the screening Sat 6 Sept @ 23:00 Screen 1, Mareel Free "On the peat hill, no-one can hear you scream." Some of Shetland's finest horror actors come together in this surroundsound tale of trow terror.
SCREENPLAY 20
Shetland film makers JJ and Joanne Jamieson set themselves a challenge earlier this year: could they write, direct, edit and produce a fifteen minute horror film? Turns out, they could. Come and see what they did, but don't expect to go to the peat hill on your own ever again.
Frederik Subei is a 33 year old documentary filmmaker. Originally from Germany he lives and works in Glasgow. He studied Journalism and Broadcast Production in Scotland and graduated last year with a first class honours degree. His graduation film ‘Windfall’ has been nominated for 4 awards and won the Creative Scotland Student Media Award in the category Best Factual Film & TV. He is also the chairman of a charity called ‘Earthmovies’ whose aim is to raise awareness about environmental isses and related subjects by showing and producing documentary films.
Photo Iman Tajik
FREDERIK SUBEI
THE EDGE OF THE WORLD CERT: U
80 MINS 1937
DIR: MICHAEL POWELL UK NIALL MACGINNISS, JOHN LAURIE, BELLE CHRYSTALL, KITTY KIRWAN
Sat 6 Sept @ 17:30 Screen 2, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Sun 7 Sept @ 18:30 Screen 1, Mareel £7.00/£5.00
Michael Powell based this, his first really personal film on the true story of the evacuation of thirty-six people from St. Kilda, an island one hundred miles off the west coast of Scotland, on 29 August 1930. The film was made over four months during the summer of 1936 on the island of Foula in Shetland. Powell was adamant that local people be in the film, and that it all be shot on location (which, except for some pick-up shots back at the studio, turned out to be the case). Powell himself told the story of the filming in his first book, 200,000 Feet on Foula. The film is a mixture of documentary and drama, location footage and studio filming, and has both professional and non-professional actors. Despite its simple and rather melodramatic story, The Edge of the World still stands up today, particularly for its stunning location cinematography, as well as the film’s opening scenes in which we see various ghostly apparitions on the now deserted island. Also notable is John Laurie’s brooding, yet sympathetic performance as Peter Manson, the film’s most complex role, one which is shown to be inextricably linked with the fate of the island itself. Powell’s script and direction also give the first real indication of the love of nature and his mystical use of landscape to shape and comment upon human stories, which would be developed further in his celebrated collaborations with Emeric Pressburger.
WINDFALL CERT: SUITABLE FOR GENERAL VIEWING 45 MINS INC INTRODUCTION 2013 DIR: PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, RESEARCH, CAMERA AND EDIT BY FREDERIK SUBEI SCOTLAND
The film will be introduced by Frederik Subei Sun 7 Sept @ 14:00 Screen 1, Mareel Free With the controversy about the proposed windfarm for Shetland still ongoing and likely to be for some time, here is a chance to see some of the main movers and shakers talking to film maker Frederik Subei. “Windfall is a documentary about a controversial windfarm to be built on Shetland. While it is supposed to be the most productive windfarm in the world, some local residents fight fiercely against the project. Shetland is the windiest place in the UK and therefore a real asset for the Scottish Government to reach its ambitious climate change targets. But as the issue has largely divided the local community, the opposition group Sustainable Shetland challenged the project with a judicial review.” Frederik Subei 2013 In this, his graduation film, Subei explores the potential environmental and community impacts of the proposed windfarm. SCREENPLAY 21
THE ARBOR CERT: 15
94 MINS 2010
DIR: CLIO BARNARD UK MANJINDER VIRK, CHRISTINE BOTTOMLEY, NATALIE GALVIN
Tue 2 Sept @ 21:00 Screen 2, Mareel £6.00/£4.00 Thu 4 Sept @ 14:00 Screen 1, Mareel £4.50/£3.50 Fri 5 Sept @ 21:15 Screen 2, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Andrea Dunbar wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate in Bradford and was described as ‘a genius straight from the slums.’ When she died tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, her daughter Lorraine was just ten years old. The Arbor revisits the Buttershaw Estate where Dunbar grew up,
CLIO BARNARD
Clio Barnard was named one of Variety’s “Top 10 Directors to Watch in 2013”. She is currently adapting Rose Tremain’s bestselling novel TRESPASS for Left Bank and Film 4, which she will direct. Her second feature, THE SELFISH GIANT, premiered as part of Cannes Director’s Fortnight 2013 and won the Europa Cinema Label’s Best European Film. The film was released by Artificial Eye in Autumn 2013. It went on to be nominated for Outstanding British Film in the 2014 BAFTA Awards. Additionally,
thirty years on from her original play, telling the powerful true story of the playwright and her daughter Lorraine. Also aged 29, Lorraine had become ostracised from her mother’s family and was in prison undergoing rehab. Re-introduced to her mother’s plays and letters, the film follows Lorraine’s personal journey as she reflects on her own life and begins to understand the struggles her mother faced. Artist and director Clio Barnard also grew up in the Bradford region and in making the film, Barnard wanted to revisit the estate to see how it had changed in the two decades since Dunbar’s death. Barnard recorded audio interviews with Lorraine Dunbar, other members of the Dunbar family and residents from the Buttershaw Estate over a period of two years. These interviews were edited to form an audio ‘screenplay.’ which forms the basis of the film as actors lip-synch to the voices of the interviewees.
the film was nominated for 7 BIFAs including Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best British Film. THE ARBOR, her first feature-length documentary film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, received huge critical success on its release in 2010, and numerous awards including The Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), Best Screenplay at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, Best British Newcomer at the BFI London Film Festival, Best New Documentary Filmmaker at Tribeca and The Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary.
THE SELFISH GIANT CERT: 15
135 MINS INC Q&A 2013 DIR: CLIO BARNARD UK CONNOR CHAPMAN, SHAUN THOMAS, SEAN GILDER
The screening will be followed by Q&A with the director, Clio Barnard Sat 6 Sept @ 20:00 Screen 1, Mareel £9.00/£7.00 A contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrap dealer - the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten - keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, becoming more like Kitten. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event, which transforms them all. Starkly emotional and beautifully directed, The Selfish Giant uses a lovely script and powerful performances to present some of the best that modern British cinema has to offer.
BRIAN COX
Brian Cox was born in Dundee, and joined the Dundee Rep at the age of fourteen. From there he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, after which he joined The Lyceum in Edinburgh, the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Shakespeare Company. A long and varied career in theatre, film, television and radio followed, his most famous film appearances including those in Rob Roy, Braveheart, The Ring, Manhunter, Troy, The Bourne Supremacy, X2, Red, The Escapist and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. He has recently been in the islands, appearing in the television crime series, Shetland. Brian is a patron of the Scottish Youth Theatre and Rector of the University of Dundee. He is married, has two grown-up children, and lives with his wife and youngest children in New York City.
BELIEVE
MANHUNTER
CERT: PG
CERT: 18
135 MINS INC Q&A 2013
DIR: MICHAEL MANN USA
DIR: DAVID SCHEINMANN UK
WILLIAM PETERSEN, BRIAN COX, KIM GREIST
BRIAN COX, NATASHA MCELHONE,
The screening will be introduced by Brian Cox Sun 7 Sept @ 20:30 Screen 1, Mareel £9.00/£7.00
JACK SMITH
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Brian Cox Sun 7 Sept @ 15:30 Screen 1, Mareel £8.00/£6.00 Set in 1984 and inspired by true events, Believe is a funny and touching fictional tale about the legendary Manchester United football manager Sir Matt Busby, who helps a wayward boy fulfill his dream. An act of petty crime by 11 year old Georgie becomes a collision of fate as Sir Matt tracks him down, only to discover that the boy is an extraordinarily gifted footballer and captain of a team of unruly talents. Having lived with football all his life and survived the tragic 1958 Munich plane disaster, in which eight of his young players were killed, Sir Matt is still committed to continue his work of 'training lads for life' and so begins a thrilling adventure as Sir Matt Busby comes out of retirement to transform a young group of scallywags into a dream team.
140 MINS INC INTRO 1986
Will Graham (Petersen) is a former FBI agent who has retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a ‘profiler’; one who profiles criminal’s behavior and tries to put himself into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the ‘Tooth Fairy’, who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has to meet with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Cox), a charismatic but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer whom Will captured years earlier, an episode which nearly drove him insane and that nearly cost him his life. William Petersen has become synonymous with his television character Gil Grissom in ‘CSI’, but is exceptional here as the haunted agent, whilst Brian Cox plays Lecktor with a chill that is deeply disturbing. The film is based on Thomas Harris’ novel, Red Dragon. SCREENPLAY 23
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