Rams
26 August – 4 September 2016
On behalf of Shetland Arts, welcome to this, our tenth birthday Screenplay festival. How time flies when you are enjoying yourself! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, we have a very impressive line-up of films, events and guests for you. We’ll be ‘looking north’ as usual, with some smashing films from Iceland, Norway and Lapland, and we’ll be waving the flag for Home Made talent with a range of Shetland-made films both long and short. There are premiere screenings from Scotland and Madagascar, preview screenings from New Zealand and the UK, and films which act as a gateway to other art forms such as music and visual art. Opera, world music and beatboxing are all there, plus a very special visit from Sheffield’s musical ‘poet laureate’ Richard Hawley. This year we are waving the flag for those talented individuals behind the scenes – producers, directors, editors and composers, including directors Kim Longinotto, Amma Asante, Iain Softley and Cesar Paes, and producers Sarah Curtis and Marie-Clémence Paes. Old friend of Screenplay, director Ken Wardrop will be joining us in cyberspace and sound artist Jason Singh will be starting his UK tour of John Grierson’s Drifters, for which he provides a live, improvised soundtrack, in Baltasound. Stephen Howarth will be introducing Ni Liv, a film about the true story of the sole survivor of a betrayed Shetland Bus mission, and Dr Andrew Jennings from the UHI will give a presentation on Saami culture prior to a screening of Pathfinder. Together with a busier-than-ever programme of family films, outreach and education events, this is making for a packed nine days. Thanks are due, as ever, to the organisations, community groups, businesses and individuals whose support and generosity means that this festival can happen. Screenplay is essentially a festival for people who love films and who are prepared to be surprised. If you come out of a film thinking “I wasn’t sure what I’d think of this – but I loved it!” our work here is done. So come and celebrate the art of film making with us. Especially as it’s our 10th birthday. Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and Kathy Hubbard
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No Trailers Please note that all films start at the scheduled screening time, without the usual adverts and trailers. You may get an occasional short film ‘bonus’ but the times shown will include this.
Contents
Funders
Look North p5 Family p10 Home Made p14 Hour of Darkness p19 Schedule p20 Fun & Games p22 Documentary p24 Drama p30 An Evening with... p36 Outreach p38
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Kathy Hubbard Kathy has been involved with Screenplay one way or another since its inception in 2007. She is the Festival Director and cocurates the programme with Mark and Linda. Kathy retired from Shetland Arts in 2014, but somehow they just can’t get rid of her. Her love of all things north translates into the annual selection of Scandinavian festival films and her addiction to documentaries makes its presence felt as well.
Cara McDiarmid After co-founding the youth filmmaking group Maddrim Media, Cara has spent the last 10 years volunteering at Screenplay and developing arts opportunities for children and young people. This year she is the festival’s volunteer coordinator and is “super excited” to be education programme coordinator as well.
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Linda Ruth Williams Linda writes and teaches on contemporary British and US cinema as Professor of Film in the English Department at Southampton University. She has been busy with the Calling the Shots: Women in contemporary British film culture project, particularly conducting interviews with female filmmakers working across six key professions; the first project report launched at the BFI Southbank in May.
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Mark Kermode Mark is chief film critic for The Observer, and presents film programmes on BBC Five Live and the BBC News Channel. His most recent book The Movie Doctors, written with Simon Mayo, came out in late 2015. He first came to Shetland to do a talk about horror films at the Wordplay Book Festival in 2006. He and Linda curated the very first Screenplay and have been coming back every year since.
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Virgin Mountain Iceland 2015 Rec 15+ 1h 40m Subtitled Producer Baltasar Kormákur Dir Dagur Kári Starring Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Sigurjón Kjartansson Sat 27 Aug 18:30 Screen 2 Mon 29 Aug 20:30 Screen 1 Thu 1 Sept 19:45 Screen 2
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Fúsi is in his forties, lives with his mother and has yet to find courage to enter the adult world. He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key, and nothing he does is out of the ordinary. When a bubbly woman, Alma, and an 8 year old girl unexpectedly enter his life, he is forced to take a leap into the unknown. But this has consequences for him and for those around him. Gunnar Jónsson and Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir both appeared in the recent television crime series, Trapped, also created by Baltasar Kormákur, which was set in a remote community in Iceland, and was a massive hit in the UK, especially so in Shetland.
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(Birkebeinerne)
Pathfinder
The Last King
Norway 1987 Cert 15 1h 45m inc intro Subtitled
Norway 2016 Cert 15 1h 39m Subtitled
Dir Nils Gaup Starring Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi
Dir Nils Gaup Starring Jakob Oftebro, Kristofer Hivju, Pål Sverre Hagen
Sat 27 Aug 16:15 Screen 2 Fri 2 Sept 14:00 Screen 2
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Set around the year 1000, where for centuries the Saami people had lived alone in the Arctic. When Tchude warriors from the East invade their territory, Saami teenager Aigin arrives home to find his parents, little sister, and the rest of the village, killed by the Tchude. He flees to a Saami camp nearby, but, alarmed that he has drawn the Tchude to them, he decides to stay and fight when the community decamps to the coast. The Tchude capture him, and he is forced to guide them to the new encampment. Aigin now has to figure out how to mislead the Tchude and save the Saami community from slaughter. The film boasts stunning scenery and a chillingly authentic portrait of life in the Arctic at the turn of the first millennium.
Both screenings of Pathfinder will be introduced by Dr Andrew Jennings of the University of the Highlands and Islands, who will give a brief talk about Saami culture and myth.
Screenplay is grateful to Filmkameratene A/S for permission to show this film.
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Sat 27 Aug 20:00 Screen 1 Mon 29 Aug 13:10 Screen 1 Tue 30 Aug 20:30 Screen 1 Fri 2 Sept 20:40 Screen 2
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The year is 1204. Norway is torn apart in a civil war. With the help of the Birch Legs (Birkebeinerne), the Norwegian King is fighting for survival against the Church’s Bishopsmen, who will use any means available to obtain victory. While the King is on his death bed, his only remaining heir is guarded in deep secret. A boy who half the Kingdom wants dead, but two men will sacrifice everything to protect. The two Birch Legs warriors Skjervald and Torstein set out on a perilous journey through the harsh Norwegian winter landscape in order to rescue the two-year-old future king from a terrible fate. Cracking adventure with lots of attention to authentic detail as you would expect from director Nils Gaup, terrific ski-ing and skirmishing scenes and plenty of Icelandic horses galloping through the snow. Not to be missed!
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Rams Iceland 2016 Cert 15 1h 45m Subtitled Dir Grímur Hákonarson Starring Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Charlotte Bøving Sat 27 Aug 15:00 Screen 1 Sun 28 Aug 16:00 Screen 2 Mon 29 Aug 20:15 Screen 2 Tue 30 Aug 14:15 Screen 2 Fri 2 Sept 18:30 Screen 2 Sat 3 Sept 14:15 Screen 2
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Who would have thought that a tale about sheep in rural Iceland could bring tears to your eyes? Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams does just that. Majestically shot in a spectacular, weather-swept valley, this wryly observed fable about two brothers who are more obstinate than the sheep they breed begins as a droll comedy about rural life and grows into a graceful and mythic tale about family, community and legacy. Siblings Gummi and Kiddi have been living side by side without speaking to each other for forty years, each tending to their pedigree ancestral flock. When communication can’t be avoided, Kiddi’s dog Somi trots between houses carrying their handwritten notes between his teeth. Their world is upended when the valley comes under threat from infection. While neighbours abandon their land, each brother tries to stave off disaster: Kiddi by taking action, and Gummi by using his wits. As the authorities close in, there’s every reason for them to set aside a lifetime of hostility to save their special breed, and their unique way of life, from extinction. But can they? Hákonarson effortlessly balances humour and pathos to tell a tale that feels both intimate and epic, a loving portrait of both culture and family in a place where change doesn’t come easily. 01595 745555
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Outreach screening supported by
(Ni Liv)
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Nine Lives
Jar City
Norway 1957 Rec. 11+ 1h 50m inc intro Subtitled
Iceland 2006 Cert 15 1h 33m Subtitled
Dir Arne Skouen Starring Jack Fjeldstad, Henny Moan, Alf Malland
Dir Baltasar Kormákur Writer Arnaldur Indriðason Starring Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Fri 26 Aug 19:30 Scalloway Hall* £7/£5 Sun 28 Aug 15:15 Screen 1* £8/£6 Tue 30 Aug 14:00 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50 Nine Lives recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, as part of the Shetland Bus operation, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sail from Shetland for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organise and supply the Norwegian resistance. But before they can make it to the Norwegian coast, they are betrayed, and ambushed by a German patrol boat. Only one man survives: Jan Baalsrud. Pursued by the Nazis, frostbitten and snowblind, he forces his way through blizzards and steep mountain ranges towards the safety of Sweden. The local communities he passes through are determined to help him, even though it will put their own lives at risk. This classic Norwegian film recounts the incredible true story of Jan Baalsrud, and is the ultimate tale of endurance in the face of insurmountable odds. *These screenings will be introduced by Stephen Howarth, whose father David played a key role in the Shetland Bus operation, and on whose 1955 book We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance the film is based.
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Sun 28 Aug 20:30 Screen 2 Tue 30 Aug 21:00 Screen 2
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Based on the first of Idridasson's Erlendur crime novels, Jar City explores how the murder of a former petty criminal and suspected paedophile sparks a search for a long-disappeared hoodlum and an investigation into a rape case from more than 30 years ago. After he discovers a photograph of a gravestone hidden in a drawer, we follow the lonely Inspector Erlendur, estranged from his family, on his quest around this extraordinary island, with its volcanos, its remote and brooding landscapes and its often grim towns. Meanwhile, a grieving father is investigating the death of his young daughter from a rare genetic brain condition. How their stories entwine forms the basis of this original and best 'Scandi noir' film. Director Kormákur creates a vision at once recognisable to Shetlanders with its remote and rain-soaked island settings, but with an intriguing and extreme edge to it that is distinctly different. 'Jimmy Perez' would have found much to empathise with here.
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Shorts for Wee Ones
Shorts for Middle Ones
Various countries 2015 Rec 3+ 50m No dialogue
Various countries 2013-2014 Rec 8+ 50m No dialogue
Mon 29 Aug 16:15 Screen 2 Sat 3 Sept 11:00 Screen 2
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What can be more fun for little ones than a colourful collection of animated stories from around the world? Our friends at Discovery Film Festival have looked high and low and found these wee treasures from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, the USA, France and the UK.
For anyone over the age of eight, our friends at Discovery Film Festival have chosen these short films to entertain you - from a tale of friendship in the garden pond to two boys who discover that age and experience is something to be reckoned with.
You’ll meet a baby lamb who definitely thinks outside the field, an elephant who dreams of riding a shiny new bicycle and a cartoon stickman who refuses to stay on the page. There is a rather vain fox with the most beautiful tail in the world, and a cat and a dog for whom a lightning storm brings amazing changes to their lives. All these short films are in English or are dialogue-free, so will be accessible for everyone.
What happens when the best pizza delivery man in space lands on the wrong planet? Or when a super-fussy inventor has his life turned upsidedown by a stray dog? Can two space travellers from different worlds survive the war that is about to take place between their planets? And two very different tales of the power of art and beauty to change the world around you. Definitely something different!
These magical tales will delight children age 3+ and are a colourful introduction to the cinema experience.
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(Wickie auf Großer Fahrt)
(Operasjon Arktis)
Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods
Operation Arctic Norway 2014 Rec 9+ 1h 37m Subtitled
Germany 2011 Rec 6+ 1h 45m Subtitled/Dubbed into English
Dir Grethe Bøe-Waal Starring Kaisa Gurine Antonsen, Ida Leonora Valestrand Eike, Leonard Valestrand Eike
Dir Christian Ditter Starring Jonas Hammerle, Valeria Eisenbart and Waldemar Kobus Sat 27 Aug 11:30 Screen 1 Sat 3 Sept 10:30 Screen 1
Sat 27 Aug 17:30 Screen 1 Sun 28 Aug 11:00 Screen 1
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Wickie, the little viking with the bright red hair, lives in the village of Flake with his mother Ylva and his father Halvar, the most stubborn Viking Chief of all time. Wickie tries to be like his father and the rest of the tough, strong vikings, but he really prefers to use his brain over brute force. But one day, the village is raided by Sven the Terrible, who kidnaps Halvar and steals his valuable amulet. Wickie is left in charge of the viking tribe, and so leads a host of characters on a daring mission to the terrifying Cape Fear. Will he be able to use his cunning to defeat Sven the pirate, save his father and find the legendary Treasure of the Gods? This hilarious comedy is jam-packed with adventure and laughs, a brilliant cast and uproarious set pieces - a treat for young and old alike.
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Thirteen year-old Julia, her siblings Ida and Sindre, and their mother have recently moved to a small Norwegian town. Desperate to see their father, they break into the local military base and stow away on a helicopter to find him. However, the helicopter changes route and they end up on the deserted Half Moon Island in the northern Arctic Ocean. Lost and alone, enduring blizzards, a dwindling food supply and hungry polar bears on the doorstep, the three must face challenges they had never dreamed of. With no way of getting a message back to their parents, can they survive long enough to figure out how to get home? This is a thrilling adventure story, with excellent performances from the young cast and fantastic cinematography capturing the harsh beauty of the Arctic landscape.
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Labyrinthus Belgium/Netherlands 2014 Rec 10+ 1h 49m Subtitled Dir Douglas Boswell Starring Spencer Bogaert, Emma Verlinden, Felix Maesschalck Sun 28 Aug 18:00 Screen 1
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14-year-old Frikke comes across a computer game and discovers that real children are trapped within, wandering lost around the labyrinth. He befriends Nola, who is caught up in the game, and decides she must be rescued; but the creator warns Frikke that if he loses or quits, Nola will be harmed. As his other friend Markus gets drawn into the labyrinth, can Frikke solve the puzzle and stop the creator? A tense and gripping story, this film uses special effects and virtual worlds to great effect, while providing an interesting perspective on internet safety and gaming technology.
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The Crow's Egg India 2014 Cert PG 1h 50m Subtitled Dir M. Manikandan Starring Ramesh, J. Vignesh, Aishwarya Rajesh Sun 28 Aug 11:15 Screen 2 Mon 29 Aug 17:30 Screen 2 Tue 30 Aug 16:30 Screen 2 Sat 3 Sept 17:45 Screen 2 Sun 4 Sept 15:30 Screen 2
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Near their Chennai slum in India, two young brothers play cricket with their friends on a patch of derelict land – until this is taken over for a brand new shopping mall. Entranced by adverts on local TV for the new pizza parlour, they set out to raise the money required to buy their very own pizza and taste this exotic delicacy for themselves. This touching comedy focuses on the realities of life in a slum community – as the director Manikandan notes: “I wanted to depict life in a slum realistically but also didn’t want to advertise India’s poverty to the world”. Occasionally hard-edged – sometimes laws are not bent, but broken – this film captures the daily challenges the family has to face, but you’ll be cheering the brothers on right to the end.
Noggin the Nog
Long Way North
1959 - 1985 Suitable for all
France/Denmark 2015 Cert PG 1h 30m English dubbed
Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin Sat 27 Aug 10:30 Mareel Auditorium Sun 28 Aug 10:30 Mareel Auditorium
Free Free
Sat 27 Aug 12:00 Screen 2 £7/£5 Sun 28 Aug 13:45 Screen 2 £7/£5 Sun 28 Aug 18:15 Screen 2 £8/£6 Mon 29 Aug 11:00 Screen 2* £5.50/£4.50 Wed 31 Aug 18:00 Screen 2 £8/£6 Fri 2 Sept 16:00 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50 Sat 3 Sept 12:15 Screen 2 £7/£5
“In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale ..." For those of us ‘of a certain age', the sagas of Noggin the Nog (brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin) were a much-cherished part of our television viewing when we were young. The adventures of this gentle Viking ran on the BBC from 1959 to the mid 1980s, and were released on DVD in 2005. It pains us to think that generations of children have been denied the sheer joy of watching Noggin's adventures, so we are going to remedy that by doing continuous screenings in the main auditorium on the opening weekend of Screenplay... absolutely free.
Sacha, a young Russian aristocrat living in Saint Petersburg in the late 19th century, dreams of the Great North and anguishes over the fate of her grandfather, Oloukine. A renowned scientist and Arctic explorer, he is yet to return from his latest expedition to conquer the North Pole. Sacha has always been fascinated by the adventurous life of her grandfather and shares his passion for exploration.
Bring your children (or your grandparents), sit back and be transported to the land of the Nogs. It's a wonderful place. Screenplay is grateful to Daniel Postgate, Smallfilms and The Dragons' Friendly Society for permission to show these films.
Dir Rémi Chayé With the voices of Chloé Dunn, Vivienne Vermes, Peter Hudson
However, Sacha’s parents have already made arrangements for her marriage and strongly disapprove of her plan to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps. Defying her destiny, Sacha flees her home and launches a quest towards the Great North in search of her grandfather and his ship. From one of the creators of previous Screenplay favourites Ernest & Celestine and Song of the Sea, this beautifully animated coming-of age tale is filled with action, adventure and bravery. *Babes in Arms screening
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Dialect Awards
Home Made: 1 - 4 Shetland 2016 Suitable for all 1h 45m Various film makers Fri 2 Sept 18:00 Screen 1
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Always the most popular event of the festival for the past ten years, this is a showcase of Shetland film-making talent from all ages and abilities. This year, the films should be between one and four minutes long and can be on any subject and in any genre. We will be asking the audience to choose their favourite - always a tough job!
Home Made: 7 - 15 Shetland 2016 Rec 12+ 1h 30m Various film makers Wed 31 Aug 17:45 Screen 1
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For those who are feeling confident about making longer 'short' films, we have an additional category this year. These films should be no shorter than 7 minutes and no longer than 15 minutes, and may take on more mature themes. 14
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This year we are delighted to announce that Shetland ForWirds are offering a prize of £100 and £25 (runner up) for the film with the most effective use of Shetland dialect. There are two categories: up to 15 years old, and 16 years and over. This can be awarded to any film using the dialect throughout Screenplay! These awards will be judged by a panel and the winners will be announced at the end of the Home Made 1 - 4 screening.
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librettist Sian Evans, a Welsh playwright and linguist. Hirda premièred in Mareel in November 2015, before touring in Shetland, Edinburgh and Glasgow. It was filmed by JJ Jamieson and 60NTV, and with the kind permission of director Robert Carson, audiences can once again enjoy this thrilling event.
Hirda Scotland 2016 Suitable for all 1h 20m Film maker J.J.Jamieson Opera directed by Robert Carson Mon 29 Aug 18:15 Screen 1 Wed 31 Aug 14:30 Screen 1 Sun 4 Sept 16:45 Screen 1
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Another chance to see Hirda, a new opera for Shetland, which was commissioned and produced by NOISE (New Opera In Scotland Events), supported by Creative Scotland and Shetland Arts. This was a collaboration between Shetland fiddler and composer, Chris Stout, classical composer Gareth Williams, and
The opera, which was written using Shetland dialect (Hirda: chaos or extreme untidiness), tells the story of Alastair, a once successful actor who returns to his island home for the wedding of his brother Iain to Muireall, a young archivist working in the local museum. Everyone’s world is turned upside down when Alastair and his sisterin-law find that they have a strong attraction to each other. This contemporary tale is woven together with another story about a 19th century woman and her sailor fiancé which is told through the letters they wrote to each other. Hirda received a rapturous reception in Shetland and on the mainland. If you saw it in November, you’ll want to see it again. If you didn’t catch it then ... now’s your chance.
Sat 3 Sept 18:00 Screen 1 Sun 4 Sept 13:15 Screen 2
Havera: The Story of an Island Shetland 2016 Suitable for all 1h 20m inc intro Shetland dialect with English Subtitled Dir JJ Jamieson
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A documentary meditation on the island of Havera, the life of its community and its eventual depopulation. Based on a book by Laughton Johnston commissioned by Shetland Amenity Trust, which includes poetry by Christine de Luca, photography by Mark Sinclair and music by Pauline Wiseman, the film incorporates the memories and stories of those who have family connections with Havera, creating both an affecting elegy and a quiet homage to a 01595 745555nowwww.shetlandboxoffice.com 15 community long gone from this lovely island.
Recorded in Shetland over the summer of 2016, Death & His Mistress merges sequences of filmpoetry, live performance and documentary, all of which forms the backdrop to Howard’s elegiac soundscapes. This screening will include a live accompaniment from The Duke of Norfolk and friends.
Death and His Mistress
Adam Howard
Shetland 2016 Suitable for all 1h inc Q&A
Adam Howard (recording as The Duke of Norfolk) is a peripatetic folk musician from Oklahoma, currently based in Dublin. Having grown up in bluegrass territory
Dir Roseanne Watt Music and sound: Adam Howard
and later studied Sound Design at MSc at the University of Edinburgh, his music nestles somewhere between traditional folk instrumentation and modern electronic folk.
Sun 28 Aug 13:30 Screen 1
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Death & His Mistress is a collaborative project between sound-artist and folk musician Adam Howard and film-poet Roseanne Watt, made as a companion piece to Howard’s sophomore album of the same title. Motivated by the death of Adam’s father, it attempts to explore death and the mysteries surrounding it. The album is punctuated with interim soundscapes composed of field recordings of the sea or of the wind, or of tornado sirens electronically processed and layered with synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and a handful of excerpts from decades of authors approaching a similar subject.
Ragnar
Roseanne Watt is a writer and filmmaker from the Shetland Isles, currently based in Edinburgh. She is undertaking an AHRC funded project, titled ‘Aa My Mindin’, at the University of Stirling, which involves the creation of a series of filmpoems and film-portraits investigating the cultural memory of her home islands. Roseanne was the 2015 winner of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry in Film. Outside of academia, Roseanne is poetry editor for the online literary magazine The Island Review, and one half of Edinburgh-based band Wulver.
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The first short film produced by the Shetland Film Collective. Ragnar is a quirky comedy steeped in Viking lore.
Shetland 2016 Suitable for all 40m inc Q&A Produced by: Shetland Film Collective Dir Stephen Mercer Sat 27 Aug 13:45 Screen 1 Wed 31 Aug 20:00 Screen 2
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A team of around twenty people came together from around Shetland to help make the film. The goal was to make something entertaining using affordable equipment and a zero budget to inspire people to have a go at making their own film.
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Home Made Highlights Shetland 2007 - 2015 Suitable for all 1h 30m Various film makers Sat 27 Aug 14:00 Screen 2 Mon 29 Aug 14:00 Screen 2 Wed 31 Aug 16:00 Screen 2 Thu 1 Sept 16:15 Screen 1 Fri 2 Sept 13:30 Screen 1 Sun 4 Sept 10:45 Screen 2
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Just a taste of some of the weird, wacky and wonderful films made by Shetlanders and shown at Screenplay since the festival began in 2007. All life is here in these twenty short films. Thanks for the memories, Shetland film-makers!
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HOUR OF DARKNESS Total running time 1h 20m Rec 15+
Horror triple bill produced by Shetlanders (and some Scots)... a graduation film by Jordan Thomason, a kidnap heist by Gregor Fergie and a welcome return to Screenplay for JJ and Joanne Jamieson's peat hill shocker.
Sat 3 Sept 22:30 Screen 1 £5 There will be a Q&A with Jordan, Gregor, JJ and Joanne after the screenings.
The Deadly Trou Shetland 2014 Art of 15m Deceit Scotland 2016 20m Dir Jordan Thomason Starring Jennifer Shaw, Chris Geddes, Gordon Slater An unstable PI has kidnapped two apparent gangsters. Using unconventional techniques she will try and learn the truth behind a missing girl, much to the chagrin of her two guests. Are their pleas of innocence genuine or are they hiding something more sinister?
Dir JJ Jamieson Writer Joanne Jamieson Starring Joyce Wark, Davy Cooper, Keith Williamson “On the peat hill ... no-one can hear you scream.” Some of Shetland's finest horror actors come together in this surround sound tale of trow terror. Film makers JJ and Joanne Jamieson set themselves a challenge early in 2014: could they write, direct, edit and produce a fifteen minute horror film? Turns out they could. Don't ever expect to go to the peat hill on your own again.
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The Badger Scotland 2016 18m Dir Gregor Fergie Produced by Madeira Films Starring Gary Lind, Will Samson & Andrew MacDonald Written by Neil McEwan Struggling actor Clarke used to think he was his own worst critic, until, that is, he met The Badger. Unhappy with his portrayal of him in a TV crime reconstruction, The Badger wants to give Clarke a few notes. If Clarke wants to make his exit he’s going to have to give the performance of his life. Lots of blood, violence, swearing, this black comedy from Madeira Films is like ‘Inside The Actor’s Studio’- but with more swearing.
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Sunday 28 August
Saturday 27 August
Friday 26 August
SCREEN Nine Lives 19:30 – 22:00 Scalloway Public Hall £7/£5
2016 Look North Family Home Made Hour of Darkness Schedule Fun & Games Documentary Drama An Evening with... Outreach
Brass Band Walk 10:30 – 11:00 Market Cross Free
Noggin the Nog 10:30 – 18:00 Mareel Auditorium Free
Wickie 11:30 – 13:15 Screen 1 £8/£6
Long Way North 12:00 – 13:30 Screen 2 £7/£5
Ragnar 13:45 – 14:25 Screen 1 Free
Home Made Highlights 14:00 – 15:30 Screen 2 £5/£4
Rams 15:00 – 16:45 Screen 1 £7/£5
Pathfinder 16:15 – 18:00 Screen 2 £8/£6
Operation Arctic 17:30 – 19:10 Screen 1 £9/£7
Virgin Mountain 18:30 – 20:30 Screen 2 £9/£7
The Last King 20:00 – 21:45 Screen 1 £9/£7
Heart of a Dog 21:15 – 22:45 Screen 2 £9/£7
Noggin the Nog 10:30 – 18:00 Mareel Auditorium Free
Operation Arctic 11:00 – 12:45 Screen 1 £7/£5
The Crow’s Egg 11:15 – 13:05 Screen 2 £7/£5
Death and His Mistress 13:30 – 14:30 Screen 1 £5
Long Way North 13:45 – 15:15 Screen 2 £7/£5
Nine Lives 15:15 – 17:15 Screen 1 £8/£6
Rams 16:00 – 17:45 Screen 2 £7/£5
Labyrinthus 18:00 – 19:45 Screen 1 £9/£7
Long Way North 18:15 – 19:45 Screen 2 £8/£6
Dreamcatcher 20:15 – 22:20 Screen 1 £9/£7
Long Way North * 11:00 – 12:30 Screen 2 £5.50/£4.50
The Last King 13:10 – 15:00 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50
Home Made Highlights 14:00 – 15:30 Screen 2 £5/£4
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 16:00 – 17:45 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50
Shorts for Wee Ones 16:15 – 17:05 Screen 2 £4/£3
The Crow’s Egg 17:30 – 19:20 Screen 2 £7/£5
Hirda 18:15 – 19:35 Screen 1 £7/£5
Screenplay Film Quiz 19:30 – 22:30 Mareel Auditorium £12
Rams 20:15 – 22:00 Screen 2 £7/£5
Virgin Mountain 20:30 – 22:10 Screen 1 £7/£5
Nine Lives 14:00 – 15:30 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50
Rams 14:15 – 16:00 Screen 2 £5.50/£4.50
Shorts for Middle Ones 16:15 – 17:05 Screen 1 £4/£3
The Crow’s Egg 16:30 – 18:20 Screen 2 £5.50/£4.50
For Children/ By Children 17:30 – 19:00 Vidlin Hall £5/£3
Love is All 18:00 – 19:45 Screen 1 £9/£7
Maggie’s Plan 18:45 – 20:30 Screen 2 £7/£5
Richard Hawley in Concert 20:30 – 22:30 Mareel Auditorium £18/£15/£9
The Last King 20:30 – 22:15 Screen 1 £8/£6
Jar City 21:00 – 22:45 Screen 2 £8/£6
Tuesday 30 August
Monday 29 August
Jar City 20:30 – 22:15 Screen 2 £8/£6
*Babes in Arms screening
Wednesday 31 August Thursday 1 September Friday 2 September Saturday 3 September Sunday 4 September
Maggie’s Plan 13:30 – 15:10 Screen 2 £5.50/£4.50
Hirda 14:30 – 15:50 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50
Home Made Highlights 16:00 – 17:30 Screen 2 £5/£4
Home Made: 7 - 15 17:45 – 19:15 Screen 1 £6/£4
Drifters 19:30 – 22:00 Baltasound Hall £8/£6
Ragnar 20:00 – 20:40 Screen 2 Free
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 20:15 – 22:00 Screen 1 £8/£6
Heart of a Dog 21:00 – 22:30 Screen 2 £8/£6
Heart of a Dog 13:30 – 15:00 Screen 2 £5.50/£4.50
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 14:00 – 15:45 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50
Home Made Highlights 16:15 – 17:45 Screen 1 £5/£4
Maggie’s Plan 17:15 – 19:10 Screen 2 £8/£6
Drifters 19:00 – 20:00 Screen 1 Premiere £8/£6
Open Mic Night 19:30 – 22:30 Mareel Cafe Bar Free
Virgin Mountain 19:45 – 21:25 Screen 2 £8/£6
Moon Dogs 20:30 – 22:30 Screen 1 £9/£7
Home Made Highlights 13:30 – 15:00 Screen 1 £5/£4
Pathfinder 14:00 – 15:45 Screen 2 £6.50/£5.50
Long Way North 16:00 – 17:30 Screen 1 £5.50/£4.50
Heart of a Dog 16:15 – 17:45 Screen 2 £5.50/£4.50
Home Made: 1 - 4 18:00 – 19:45 Screen 1 £6/£4
Rams 18:30 – 20:15 Screen 2 £9/£7
Belle 20:15 – 22:30 Screen 1 £10/£8
The Last King 20:40 – 22:20 Screen 2 £9/£7
Wickie 10:30 – 12:15 Screen 1 £8/£6
Shorts for Wee Ones 11:00 – 11:50 Screen 2 £4/£3
Long Way North 12:15 – 13:45 Screen 2 £7/£5
Songs for Madagascar 12:45 – 14:45 Screen 1 £8/£6
Rams 14:15 – 16:00 Screen 2 £7/£5
K-PAX 15:15 – 17:35 Screen 1 £10/£8
Shorts for Middle Ones 16:30 – 17:20 Screen 2 £4/£3
The Crow’s Egg 17:45 – 19:35 Screen 2 £9/£7
Havera 18:00 – 19:20 Screen 1 £9/£7
Hysteria 19:45 – 22:00 Screen 1 £10/£8
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 20:00 – 21:45 Screen 2 £9/£7
Hour of Darkness 22:30 – 23:50 Screen 1 £5
Home Made Highlights 10:45 – 12:15 Screen 2 £5/£4
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 11:00 – 12:45 Screen 1 £7/£5
Young Film Quiz 12:30 – 14:00 Mareel Auditorium Free
Havera 13:15 – 14:35 Screen 2 £7/£5
Mom and Me 14:00 – 16:15 Screen 1 £8/£6
The Crow’s Egg 15:30 – 17:20 Screen 2 £7/£5
Hirda 16:45 – 18:05 Screen 1 £7/£5
Heart of a Dog 18:15 – 19:45 Screen 2 £8/£6
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 18:45 – 20:30 Screen 1 £8/£6
Maggie’s Plan 20:30 – 22:10 Screen 2 £8/£6
Raiders Sun 4 Sept 21:00 – 22:45 Screen 1 £8/£6
Long Way North 18:00 – 19:30 Screen 2 £8/£6
Brass Band Walk Sat 27 Aug 10:30 Market Cross
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Come join us in celebrating the opening of Screenplay in style! We'll be marching from the Market Cross to Mareel in the company of the Shetland Brass Band and as many young Vikings as we can muster. The opening film is Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods, a film about a little Viking with a big personality. This will start shortly after we arrive - once we've all had some cake; it is our 10th birthday after all.
Open Mic Night Thu 1 Sept 19:30 Mareel Cafe Bar
Free
Fun and informal open mic session in the café bar. Sing a song, play an instrument, recite a poem, tell a joke or even do a dance! No instrument? Don’t worry! You can play on our house guitar. Why not go and see beatboxer Jason Singh improvising a soundtrack to Drifters first and then come down to the café inspired?
Screenplay Film Quiz Rec 14+ 3h Mon 29 Aug 19:30 Mareel Auditorium £12 per table up to 6 people Our annual crazy film quiz, where anything could happen - and usually does. Hosted by Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams in the quizmasters' chairs and supported by Mareel's usual quizmaster team, there will be rounds both fun and fiendish. We are hoping to see all our regular teams plus some new contenders so book your table as soon as can, as this is a guaranteed sell-out. Remember, teams of no more than six folk, bring your cinema expertise and your creativity...you are going to need both.
Young Film Quiz Rec 12 - 16 2h Sun 4 Sept 12:30 Mareel Auditorium
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Mareel's monthly film quiz, adapted for young people aged between 12 and 16. The usual rules apply - teams of no more than six to a table, book your table in advance and NO cheating! Take our advice and make sure your team includes a wide range of interests and obsessions if you want to be in with a chance of winning any of the crazy and utterly desirable prizes. The event has been huge fun for the past two years - why not drum up a team from your school, youth club or neighbourhood?
Peerie Mark Bear Raffle We have commissioned a special Burra Bear for Screenplay’s 10th birthday! He is modelled on one of our curators, film critic Mark Kermode, and he would love to come and live with some lucky person, and watch films with them on the sofa. Crafted by Wendy Inkster, hair styled by Rachael Robinson, glasses, collar and tie made by Mike and Gill Finnie, he is a grand example of Shetland creativity ... and DEFINITELY a collector’s piece! Raffle tickets can be bought online or at the Box Office at Mareel or Islesburgh until Saturday 3rd September. The draw will take place at 7.45pm at Screenplay, and there will be other super Screenplay prizes too.
Lottery registration no. S.783 Promoter: Shetland Arts Development Agency All entrants must be over 16 years. Tickets purchased by under 16's will be invalid and cannot be refunded. NOT AVAILABLE TO ANYONE EMPLOYED BY SADA
Dreamcatcher UK/USA 2015 Cert 15 2h 5m inc Q&A Dir Kim Longinotto Sun 28 Aug 20:15 Screen 1
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Kim Longinotto Longinotto studied camera and directing at England’s National Film School, where she made Theatre Girls, documenting a hostel for homeless women.
Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world through the eyes of one of its survivors; and their adversities: Cross and Passion, about Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage women in the Northern Ireland troubles; Eat the Kimono, about prostitute who worked the streets of Chicago, the controversial feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu; Hidden Brenda defied the odds to become a tireless Faces,, about Egyptian women; The Good Wife of Tokyo, which advocate for change in her community. This explores women, love and marriage in Japan. She followed these powerful film explores the cycle of neglect, with Dream Girls, and Shinjuku Boys, about three Tokyo women violence and exploitation which each year who live as men; Rock Wives, about the wives and girlfriends of leaves thousands upon thousands of girls rock stars; Divorce Iranian Style, set in a Family Court in Tehran and and women feeling that prostitution is Gaea Girls, about a young girl’s struggle to become a professional their only option to survive. By following wrestler. Runaway is set in a refuge for runaway girls in Tehran; the very charming, charismatic and truly The Day I Will Never Forget is about young girls in Kenya challenging empathic Brenda, we enter the lives of the tradition of female circumcision; Sisters in Law, set in Kumba, young women and see their realities Cameroon, won two prizes at Cannes. Rough Aunties, about a group of from their points of view, providing an brave women based in Durban, South Africa and Pink Saris, from Northern unflinching exposé which contrasts India followed. Love Is All, an archive film about love in 20th and 21st seeming hopelessness against the century UK films, and Dreamcatcher, about Chicago sex workers will both difference that one person can be shown at Screenplay. make in the lives of many. Many of the films she has made since
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Kate Allen Kate took up her post as Director of Amnesty International UK in early 2000. Amnesty International has nearly 8 million
Followed by a Q&A with director Kim Longinotto & AIUK Director Kate Allen
members, supporter and activists worldwide – over 600,000 in the UK. Amnesty’s global campaigns are Stop Torture, My Body My Rights, Individuals at Risk and Crisis Response. Kate is a member of the Secretary General’s Global Management Team. Before joining Amnesty International Kate was Deputy Chief Executive at the Refugee Council from 1995 to January 2000, where she was responsible for its policy and operational work and headed the UK emergency evacuation programmes from Bosnia and Kosovo.
This screening is supported by Shetland Amnesty International
Heart of a Dog USA 2015 Cert PG 1h 30m Dir Laurie Anderson Sat 27 Aug 21:15 Screen 2 Wed 31 Aug 21:00 Screen 2 Thu 1 Sept 13:30 Screen 2 Fri 2 Sept 16:15 Screen 2 Sun 4 Sept 18:15 Screen 2
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Dogs have had a special place in Screenplay’s heart for many years. This year’s cinematic canine belonged to musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson and her late husband Lou Reed. In this strange and lovely meditation on love, death and loss, using scratch drawings, home movie footage and dreamlike moving imagery, Laurie reflects on the life and death of her terrier Lolabelle, on her often troubled relationship with her late mother, and on the many things that make us human. Although not mentioning her late husband by name, the sense of his loss permeates an affecting film by a great artist.
“Nothing if not original, this is almost certainly the only movie about a terrier that cites the writing of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, the painting of Goya and the wisdom of Jewish grandmothers.” Geoffrey McNab, The Independent 01595 745555
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Following the Fleet: Drifters UK 1929 Cert PG 1h 10m at Mareel 2h 25m at Baltasound Hall Dir John Grierson Sound Artist Jason Singh Premiere Wed 31 Aug 19:30 Baltasound Hall Thu 1 Sept 19:00 Screen 1
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Jason Singh Jason Singh is a musician, composer, sound artist, creative facilitator,
Sound artist and composer Jason Singh performs his live vocal score to John Grierson’s monumental silent film. Drifters, which premiered alongside Battleship Potemkin in 1929, follows North Sea herring trawlermen through their dramatic daily routines as well as documenting the industry’s struggles between tradition, modernity, technology, the environment and nature. Jason’s score is a totally unique performance combining live vocal sound effects, voice manipulation, beatboxing and live sampling to create an exhilarating cinematic experience.
producer and performer whose work features an ongoing exploration and collaboration between the voice, body and music technology to vocally mimic nature, birdsong, wildlife natural phenomena, acoustic and electronic instruments. Collaborations and commissions include the BBC, Tate Britain, English National Opera, Sage Gateshead, Nitin Sawhney, Aidan O’Rourke, Scanner,
This special live event launches “Following the Fleet", a tour of Scotland’s major herring fishing ports produced by Shona Thomson and supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, and by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.
Glastonbury Festival, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, and Celtic Connections.
The event at Baltasound Hall will be followed by a screening of Havera: The Story of an Island.
Songs for Madagascar Madagascar/France/Germany 2016 Suitable for all 2h inc Q&A Producer Marie-Clémence Paes Dir Cesar Paes Research Ulrike H Meinhof With the music of Dama Mahaleo, Erick Manana, Justin Vali and others Sat 3 Sept 12:45 Screen 1
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Songs for Madagascar offers an intimate journey across the island of Madagascar and parts of Europe. It closely follows the creative work of a group of musicians and shows their encounters with local communities. The film allows us to discover the artists’ collaborations, and show first hand their social, cultural and environmental commitment to one of the most endangered islands in the world.
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Born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Cesar He is an author, a director and a cinematographer of documentary feature films where music is both narrative and pretext, and his films have earned him many international awards. Cesar is also a tutor of documentary workshops at FEMIS (Paris), Ecole de la Rue (Dunkerque), Dokanema (Maputo), and Mostra de Cinema Africano (Fortaleza).
Marie-Clémence Paes Born in Antananarivo (Madagascar), Marie-Clémence has a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Marketing &
The soundtrack brings to life the creative work of these artists as they share their songs with one another. The film shows their rehearsals where each composer gives a new shape to his songs, adapting its local roots to new rhythms and instruments.
Advertising CELSA Diploma (Sorbonne). In 1988, she created Laterit Productions, an independent production company based in Paris, which is also committed to music publishing and distribution. Her aim is to produce ambitious films that highlight and promote a better cross-cultural understanding and her previous productions have won top awards at various festivals and have been screened by dozens of broadcasters. She has been developing documentary projects through lectures and workshops internationally and has been a jury member in several
Screenplay is proud to be screening the international premiere of this lovely documentary.
documentary festivals.
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof Ulrike Hanna Meinhof is a professor at the University of Southampton and director of its Research Centre for Transnational Studies. Her
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Cesar and MarieClémence Paes, and with Ulrike H Meinhof.
EU and AHRC-funded research has focused on cultural identities ranging across such diverse subjects as the life stories of people in European border communities, in multicultural cities and regions, and in migrant networks, and has led to a whole series of publications and joint projects with film-makers and musicians.
Festival Director's Choice
Mom and Me Eire 2015 Cert PG 2h 15m inc Q&A and supporting short films Dir Ken Wardrop Producer Andrew Freedman Sun 4 Sept 14:00 Screen 1
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Ken Wardrop is making a very welcome, if virtual, return to Screenplay. We last saw him here in 2006, introducing his deeply affecting first documentary His & Hers, along with showing some of his wonderful short films. These included the unforgettable Useless Dog, which gained Shetland cult status after a screening to 35 dogs and their owners at the Shetland Marts. Needless to say, we will be showing it again... Oklahoma has recently been voted the manliest state in the US. With Mother’s Day coming soon, radio show host Joe Cristiano wants to investigate if the manliest men, in the manliest state in the Union, are willing to call in and discuss their mothers on air. Mom and Me is a
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” Oscar Wilde
creative documentary that delicately challenges the familiar love story shared between a son and his mother. It is a story that reveals comedy in the everyday and misery on some other days. Tough guys from all walks of life talk with and about their mothers, who are often revealed to be the real ‘tough guys.' This film is the Festival Director's Choice, and Kathy Hubbard will be talking to Ken on Skype. Her advice is to bring your tissues.
We couldn't think of a more joyful way to end the festival than this genuinely unique hymn to film fans wherever and whoever you may be.
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
In 1982, three 11-year-olds in Mississippi set out to create a shot for shot remake of their favourite film: Raiders of the Lost Ark. With the help of all their friends, it took them all the seven summers of their youth to create in their basement... except for one scene: the airplane scene. Twenty five years later, they set out to finally complete their fan film and fully realise their childhood dream. This is the story behind the making of what is known as the greatest fan film ever made.
USA 2015 Rec 12+ 1h 46m Dir Jeremy Coon, Tim Skousen With Eric Zala, Chris Strompolos and Jayson Lamb Sun 4 Sept 21:00 Screen 1
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Raiders! has been taking the international festival scene by storm for the past year and we are delighted to be able to bring it to a Shetland audience. Thirty years to follow your dream ... You have to admit, THAT is dedication.
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Moon Dogs Scotland 2016 Rec 15+ 2h inc Q&A Producer Kathy Speirs Dir Philip John Writers Derek Boyle, Raymond Friel Starring Jack Parry Jones, Christy O'Donnell, Tara Lee Thu 1 Sept 20:30 Screen 1
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An anarchic, funny, sexy coming-of-age movie, following two teenage step brothers (Jack Parry-Jones and Christy O’Donnell) on a road trip across Scotland and the enigmatic girl who comes between them. This is Philip John's feature debut (he directed episodes of Outlander and Downton Abbey) and it makes the very best of some stunning Scottish locations - including Shetland. Cameos from Denis Lawson and Shauna Macdonald and Anton Newcombe’s soundtrack add much to the film, which was a big hit at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and which has been garnering awards on the festival circuit. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the producer Kathy Speirs and the writers Derek Boyle and Raymond Friel.
Hysteria UK 2011 Cert 15 2h 10m inc Q&A Producer Sarah Curtis Dir Tanya Wexler Starring Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett Sat 3 Sept 19:45 Screen 1
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Sarah Curtis Sarah Curtis has been an independent feature and tv producer for 18 years. Her previous productions include box office hit Run Fat Boy Run (2008), starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton and directed by David Schwimmer, and On A Clear Day (2005), starring Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn and Billy Boyd which opened won two Scottish BAFTAS in 2006 (Best Screenplay and Best Film). Further film credits include Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett and Billy Crudup) for director Gillian Armstrong;
In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville, sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' out-moded methods,gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages. The handsome young doctor attracts a large female clientele and gets engaged to Dalrymple's studious younger daughter Emily but his treatment method brings on a carpal injury and he is sacked. Fortunately an enterprising inventor friend has come up with a power operated feather duster which will soon be transformed into a vibrator and make Mortimer a fortune. He also has to contend with Emily's older sister Charlotte, an outspoken suffragette who runs a home for disadvantaged women in London's East End.
Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park; The Governess (Minnie Driver and Tom Wilkinson) directed by Sandra Goldbacher; Mrs Brown, (Judi
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer Sarah Curtis
Dench and Billy Connolly) directed by John Madden; Christopher Monger’s The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Ian McNiece and Colm Meaney). Her most recent film Coalition, made for Cuba Pictures and Channel 4 told the behind- the-scenes story of the formation of the recent coalition government and won the 2016 RTS award for Best Single film.
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople New Zealand 2016 Rec 12A 1h 41m Dir Taika Waititi Starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata Mon 29 Aug 16:00 Screen 1 Wed 31 Aug 20:15 Screen 1 Thu 1 Sept 14:00 Screen 1 Sat 3 Sept 20:00 Screen 2 Sun 4 Sept 11:00 Screen 1 Sun 4 Sept 18:45 Screen 1
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Winner of the Audience Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Ricky Baker (Dennison), a defiant young city kid, is sent by child welfare services to live in the country with foster aunt Bella and cantankerous foster uncle Hec (Neill). When Bella suddenly passes away and child services decide to take Ricky back to a care home, Ricky runs away into the bush with uncle Hec in pursuit. Child services arrive to find the house empty, and come to the conclusion that a bereaved and mentally unstable Hec has abducted Ricky. A national manhunt ensues, and the two have to get over their differences to survive. This warm and affecting film is a comedy with a serious message. It premiered at the Sundance Festival this year and quickly became a box office smash in new Zealand. Waititi is one of New Zealand's most lauded film makers, and his next venture will be directing the Marvel action film Thor:Ragnarok. Screenplay would like to thank film distributors Vertigo for permission to screen this film ahead of its UK release.
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Belle UK 2013 Cert 12A 2h 15m inc Q&A Dir Amma Asante Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson Fri 2 Sept 20:15 Screen 1
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Amma Asante BAFTA award winning writer/director Amma Asante attended the Barbara Speake stage school in London, where she trained as a student in dance and drama. She began her career as a child actress, appearing as a regular in the popular British school drama Grange Hill. In her late teens, she made the move to screenwriting with development deals from Chrysalis, Channel 4 and the BBC. Amma’s 2004 feature film, A Way of Life, was her directorial debut (she also wrote the screenplay) and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival winning Amma 17 international awards for her writing and directing and Newcomer Awards for writing and directing from the BFI London Film Festival and the prestigious South Bank Show Awards’ The Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year. At the 2005 BAFTA Film Awards Amma received the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a writer/ director in a debut film. Amma’s second feature film, Belle, opened to phenomenal success worldwide, releasing first in the U.S and taking a
Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Captain. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson), Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the colour of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar's son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.
higher per-screen average than Spiderman 2 in its opening weekend, and went on to become one of the highest grossing independent
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Amma Asante.
films of 2014. Her next film, A United Kingdom, which tells the true story of Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo, who also Executive Produces), the King of Botswana who falls in love with London office worker Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), will open the BFI London Film Festival in October 2016.
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K-PAX USA 2002 Cert 12A 2h 20m inc Q&A Dir Iain Softley Starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack Sat 3 Sept 15:15 Screen 1
After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, Prot is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell attempts to cure him of his apparent delusions. However, Prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX, and its civilizations.
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Iain Softley Iain Softley has made a wide range of International films as director, writer and producer. His first film, Backbeat (1994), which he wrote and directed, opened the Sundance Film Festival and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Film. Iain went on to make Hackers (1995) starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie in her feature film debut. The Wings of the Dove (1997) starred Helena Bonham Carter and Linus Roache and earned four Academy Award
The other patients at the Institute all believe that he is indeed from K-PAX, and they each ask if they can go with him when he returns, on a date which he has already chosen. Dr. Powell believes this to be a significant date in Prot's life, a day on which he suffered a severe psychological trauma. He decides to subject Prot to regression hypnosis, which indicates that there may be another explanation for Prot's story.
nominations, as well as winning two BAFTAs and multiple acting honors for Bonham Carter. Iain’s next two films (for Universal Studios) topped the US box office: K-PAX (2001) starring Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges and The Skeleton Key (2005) with Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands and John Hurt. Other film credits include Inkheart (2008) from Cornelia Funke’s best-selling book, with Helen Mirren, Paul Bettany and Jim Broadbent. He has recently completed the thriller Curve with Julianne Hough which will be released
A poignant and moving tale, with great performances from Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
in Autumn 2016. Iain’s current projects include One Foot In Eden with Jeff Bridges and Ben Whishaw, Icarus, the dramatic true story of British American
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Iain Softley
astronaut Mike Foale, and a film version of Sadie Jones’ latest novel, Fallout.
Maggie's Plan USA 2015 Cert 15 1h 38m Dir Rebecca Miller Starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore Tue 30 Aug 18:45 Screen 2 Wed 31 Aug 13:30 Screen 2 Thu 1 Sept 17:15 Screen 2 Sun 4 Sept 20:30 Screen 2
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Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?
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Love is All UK 2014 Cert 12A 1h 40m inc Q&A Dir Kim Longinotto Soundtrack Richard Hawley Tue 30 Aug 18:00 Screen 1
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Love is All takes us on a journey through the twentieth century, exploring love and courtship on screen in a century of unprecedented social upheaval. From the very first kisses ever caught on film, through the disruption of war, to the birth of youth culture, gay liberation and free love, we follow courting couples flirting at tea dances, kissing in the back of the movies, shacking up and fighting for the right to love. This is the celluloid story of love and courtship since the birth of the movie camera, told with spellbinding footage from the British Film Institute archive and Yorkshire Film Archive and many more, and set to a stunning Richard Hawley soundtrack. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Kim Longinotto and Richard Hawley
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Richard Hawley performs an intimate acoustic set with his guitarist Shez Sheridan. Born into a musical family, it seemed inevitable Richard Hawley would become a musician. The former Pulp guitarist and Longpigs member began his solo career in 2001. Since then he has released eight studio albums, the most recent of which is titled Hollow Meadows. The Sheffieldborn musician has twice been nominated for a Mercury prize and once for a Brit Award. During his solo career he has collaborated with Jarvis Cocker, Lisa Marie Presley, Arctic Monkeys and Paul Weller. Richard will be in Shetland as part of Screenplay, where he will take part in a Q&A with director Kim Longinotto following a screening of Love Is All, which Kim directed, and for which Richard provided the music. A rare opportunity to see a much-admired musician and songwriter. And Screencard holders get in for half price!
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For Children/ By Children Suitable for all 1h 30m Various film makers Tue 30 Aug 17:30 Vidlin Hall
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A screening of short films made for children, with help from our friends at Discovery Children’s Film Festival - and some films made by children, some of them here in Shetland!
This year we have a fantastic collection of films for all ages from all over the world for our Screenplay Education Programme. These include the tale of three siblings on an Arctic adventure, battling blizzards and polar bears (Operation Arctic), two brothers in Chennai who just want their first taste of pizza (The Crow’s Egg), and the fantastical tale of Frikke, caught up in a dangerous computer game (Labyrinthus), to name but three. We are looking forward to welcoming pupils from many different schools to these screenings. Our sincere thanks go to EISS for their support of this year’s education programme.
Come and watch a small boy being befriended by a special puppy, an elephant yearning for a bicycle, a lamb who doesn’t see the need to be a sheep, what happens when you take a holiday in Unst - and lots more. Grab your juice and biscuits and settle down to watch. Maybe you will make the next film?
This year’s outreach programme, undertaken in partnership with Shetland Film Club, includes a visit to Scalloway Hall with a screening of Nine Lives (Ni Liv), the true story Jan Baalsrud, the only survivor of a betrayed Shetland Bus operation. This will be introduced by Stephen Howarth, son of David Howarth who was in day-today operational charge of the WW2 spy operation known as ‘The Shetland Bus’, maintaining connections between Britain and Nazi-occupied Norway. David’s book The Shetland Bus has never been out of print since its publication in 1951. Stephen will also be available for informal discussions after the screening.
We will be visiting Baltasound Hall with the opening event of a national tour of Following the Fleet: Drifters, where sound artist Jason Singh will improvise a live soundtrack onto the 1939 John Grierson classic silent film about the North Sea herring fishing fleet. There will be screenings of J.J. Jamieson’s new film Havera: The Story of an Island at care centres in Baltasound, Mid-Yell and Levenwick, and at the other end of the age range, we will be at Vidlin Hall with a programme of films made for children and by children, to inspire a generation of future film makers. Shetland Arts is very grateful to Scott Murray of Virtuo Wealth Management Ltd for his support of this year’s outreach programme.
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