The findings of a feasibility study into establishing a moving image archive in the isles are to be presented at the Shetland Museum and Archives.
Click here for full story...Speiliks, the toymakers based in Burra, have branched out and made an animated film featuring their wooden toys and a little plastic pig named Mildred.
Davy Inkster, Susan Timmins and their daughter Freya invited Eva and Leah Cumming to join them to form Speiliks Associates. Freya, Eva and Leah, all pupils at Scalloway Junior High…
Click here for full story...Shetland Film Club will be showing The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas at the NAFC Marine Centre at 7.30pm on Thursday.
Eight-year-old Bruno is the son of an officer and concentration camp commander in 1940s Germany. The family lives in a country house, and although Bruno is forbidden to go near the camp (he does…
Click here for full story...Shetland Amenity Trust has received a grant of £8,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Awards for All programme towards a feasibility study into establishing a moving image archive in the isles.
The project will not be collecting any materials at this stage, instead carrying out research into the quantities and nature of old cine and…
Click here for full story...By PAUL RIDDELL
Crime writer Ann Cleeves’ quartet of novels set in Shetland may be turned into a prime-time television drama series after a leading production company bought the rights to film them.
Mrs Cleeves was in Shetland this week to launch the third of the books, Red Bones, which is set in Whalsay,…
Click here for full story...Readers may recall the Colombian Evening at Baroc a few years ago. Britain’s “Bar Tender of the year” award winner, an expert cocktail mixer and great fan of Fruto Del Espiritu tropical Colombian fruit purees, demonstrated her magnificent cocktail mixing skills and an enthusiastic audience tasted the results free.
At a recent event in Islesburgh,…
Click here for full story...Shetland Arts is showing an exclusive free screening of the film Faintheart at the Garrison Theatre on Monday before it goes on general release in the UK.
MySpace, Vertigo Films, the UK Film Council and Film4 have announced innovative plans for the release of Faintheart, the first user-generated feature film to be screened in the…
Click here for full story...AN ARCHIVE of short films by Orcadian film maker Margaret Tait is to be screened at the Shetland Museum on Saturday, 29th November.
The films, which are housed in the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, will be introduced by Andrew Parkinson, exhibitions officer at the centre.
He said: “Margaret was an incredibly influential filmmaker and…
Click here for full story...THE FIRST conference on Moving Image in Education will be held on Friday in the Shetland Museum.
The conference is a joint initiative by the SIC in partnership with Shetland Arts and will feature a number of presentations.
As well as representatives from schools there will be a presentation from Maddrim Media, the young people’s…
Click here for full story...SHETLAND Arts’ Film Wednesdays season begins again at the Garrison Theatre next week with Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG).
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a romantic comedy about a lost young New York socialite Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) and the would-be writer Paul Varjak…
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