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We are delighted that two Screen Scotland backed films won awards at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022. Winners by Hassan Nazer won the Audience Award and the Powell & Pressburger Award for Best Feature went to Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson’s A Cat Called Dom.
Screen International and Screen Scotland unveiled the first-ever Rising Stars Scotland, a major new talent spotlight for Scottish filmmakers and actors. The line-up features 11 up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the cusp of their first major professional breakthrough.
Screen Scotland was Edinburgh TV Festival's Headline Sponsor for 2022, the first live event since 2019. Screen Scotland produced the Festival’s session with Brian Cox interviewed by Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Angus Robertson, which saw the actor reflect very positively on the significant recent growth in Scotland’s film and TV sectors in the last few years.
Scotland-based production company Synchronicity Films is adapting Andrew O’Hagan’s acclaimed novel Mayflies for BBC One and BBC Scotland. The mini-series will star Martin Compston, Ashley Jensen, and Tony Curran.
Creative Scotland, which Screen Scotland is part of, has made a submission to the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee as part of the Budget Scrutiny 2023-24, looking at funding for culture. Read it on the Creative Scotland website to find out how budgetary decisions may impact the screen sector.
We would like to receive your views on Creative Scotland's draft Gaelic Language Plan for 2022-27 which sets out Creative Scotland’s (and Screen Scotland's) ambitions for supporting Gaelic language and culture.
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