film audiences conference - early bird rate

This is your last chance to get the early bird rate for the Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference next March: the discount ends on 30 November 2008.

The event will be truly international: we have contributors from across Europe, and even from down under, talking about audiences from Nairn to Taipei. Papers cover individual films and entire film festivals, the past and the future, babies to baby boomers - but they all focus on empirical film audience research. Take a look at the full programme for all the details.

We have Professor Ian Christie, from the School of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London, as our opening speaker. He is Vice President of Europa Cinemas and a Trustee of the Independent Film Parliament and will provide an inspiring start to the conference.

Our closing speaker is Dr Sean Perkins of the UK Film Council. His extensive experience in audience research will ensure that the conference ends on a high note.

EIFAC takes place in the beautiful city of Edinburgh on Thursday, 26 March 2009 and Friday, 27 March 2009. If you'd like to join us, hurry up and book your place as we are limiting attendance to 75.

scottish animation group news

The lovely Iain Gardner of the Scottish Animation Group has posted a news article about our “best animation” win at Mobifest. Thanks Iain!

best animation

We won "Best Animation" at Mobifest Toronto 08!

Our winning film was About Culross Abbey, which tells the legend of Princess Thenaw and her son Saint Mungo (the patron saint of Glasgow).

Oh, and we had to pre-record an acceptance speech to be shown on the night, which was brilliant but embarrassing:



Thanks to everyone at Mobifest Toronto, and to the good people at Pocket Shorts Scotland who commissioned this film: organisers Jason Hall and Madevi Dailly and funders Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Screen, and NESTA.

Thanks also to our team: to Stephen Gilmour for the genius sound design, and Paul Thomas Hickey for the gorgeous voiceover.

the lost wordle

We’re working hard on pre-production for The Lost Book and will have some exciting visuals to show you over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here’s a flavour of the project in wordle form.

First up, the latest project description:

And, the final draft script for the first episode:

Images created at http://www.wordle.net/.

mobifest 08

Both our About Here films have been selected as finalists for the international made-for-mobile film festival Mobifest Toronto 08!


The screening will be on 19 November. But, if you – like us – can’t make it to Toronto you can watch the two films here. Even better: for the authentic experience on your mobile phone, text ABOUT to 81400 (mobile website provided by the good people at Cymba).

View About Drummond Hill and About Culross Abbey on the Mobifest site.