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Love Cake screening Aberdeen Film Festival
Love Cake has its next screening on 11th October as part of ‘Best of the Edinburgh Short Film Festival’ at the Aberdeen Film Festival. It’s screening at the mighty Cineworld. More info on the programme here. Violet’s neighbour does not approve…….
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Love Cake at Edinburgh Short Film Festival
Hurrah, Love Cake had another screening at Edinburgh Short Film Festival in June. It’s a boutique fest, with a lovely warm atmosphere, and although there were a couple technical problems at the screening (hey, sh*t happens!), our film was well received, and no-one asked any difficult questions when Director Eleanor Yule and myself were interviewed on…
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EIFF the aftermath
Edinburgh International Film festival flew by, and then I emerged blinking into the real world. Feels like a bit of a blur now, but memories linger of the good times, great chats, boiling weather (!), and especially of some of the amazing films I saw – including Uncertain Terms, and the beautifully crafted I Believe…
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014
Kicked off my attendance at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 (EIFF) today. Actually I sort of started on Wednesday but it’s not a festival until the official lanyard is donned! Wednesday saw the first Scottish Film Summit which brought all kinds of film folk together at Edinburgh College of Art to discuss and debate the future…
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Crossover Scotland Creative Lab
Earlier in March I attended the Crossover Scotland Creative Lab. It’s part of a programme of events and professional training supported by Creative Scotland and Creative Skillset’s TV Skills Fund that aims to enhance the development, vision, connectivity and ambitions of Scotland’s creative practitioners. I applied because not only did it include some incredible learning/mentoring opportunities across media boundaries,…
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Heading to Glasgow Short Film Festival?
If you’re heading along to the GSFF later in February, make sure you pop into their videotheque as Love Cake has been invited to screen in the Scottish Film programme there. Thanks for the opportunity GSFF!
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Creative Futures Lab – Digital Storytelling
Back from an inspiring weekend up in Perthshire looking at “Digital Storytelling… for a Change”, part of Creative Futures, a Creative Scotland talent development programme. It proved to be a really worthwhile, productive and challenging couple of days which encompassed lots of areas including how screenwriting (and other forms of writing) can be used for…
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Love Cake Premieres
Last weekend Love Cake premiered at The Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York – thanks to the ASFF and venue 1331 for the warm welcome! Great to see the film finally out in the world, especially in a Comedy screening of such great UK and Australian shorts. Nice mention here from Screen Academy Scotland: http://www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk/node/1432
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The Last Guest performed at the Village Pub Theatre
The Last Guest, a short play I’ve been working on, was performed ‘script in hand’ along with 5 others at the Village Pub Theatre’s Halloween event in Edinburgh. Great performances from Belle Jones, Sam Watson, Alan McKenzie and Jenny Hulse, resulted in an enthusuastic reception from the audience who also enjoyed some spooky home-backed treats. Masterful…
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Love Cake on Facebook
Follow Love Cake’s journey on Facebook Love Cake now has a dedicated Facebook page, so if you’re interested in following it as it goes out into the big, bad world to spread a little bit of cakey magic then hope you’ll join up by liking it.
mandy lee 