Posts Tagged ‘cinema’

Africa in Motion Film Festival visits Shetland

Posted by Mary Smith on October 27th, 2009 No Comments

Media Release
Some of the best of African film will be screened at the Shetland Museum and Archives on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November, thanks to a collaboration between the Africa in Motion Film Festival, Shetland Film Club and Shetland Arts. Supported by Regional Screen Scotland, the festival proper is taking place in Edinburgh…

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Mark Kermode heads for the UK’s most northerly bus shelter

Posted by Gwilym Gibbons on August 31st, 2009 No Comments

Media release:
Mark Kermode heads for the UK’s most northerly bus shelter before welcoming Terence Davies to the Shetland Film Festival
Shetland young filmmakers group Maddrim Media will welcome film critic Mark Kermode (and his mum) to be guests of honour to the UK’s smallest film festival screening in the UK’s most northerly bus Shelter…

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Planning in earnest for Screenplay 09

Posted by Kathy Hubbard on June 12th, 2009 No Comments

I suspect the word ‘earnest’ should never appear on my news posting – earnestness not being a groovy, cyber-friendly, happening sort of word. But it does go some way to describing the single-minded activity that’s going in to planning for this year’s film festival. There are two strands to the festival this year – the…

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What’s on

Posted by Shetland Arts on June 10th, 2009 Comments Off

Films @ The Garrison
Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th March – The Garrison Theatre, Lerwick. March films at The Garrison are – The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated family film loosely based on E. D. Baker’s novel The Frog Princess, which was in turn inspired by the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale “The…

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Convenor Digs Mareel

Posted by Bryan Peterson on May 29th, 2009 No Comments

Media release:
On a cold, grey, windy night an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the North Ness, Lerwick to see the first turf dug out on the site of Mareel, Shetland Arts’ long awaited Cinema, Music and Education Venue which will be up and running early in 2011.
At 6.30 pm, on Wednesday 25 May, to…

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