ESFF announces our new Patron and Ambassador: Jamie Robson

We’re very pleased to announce that the talented and award-winning Scottish actor, Jamie Robson is to become our patron and ambassador for ESFF.
We’re proud to have Jamie on-board and looking forward to working with him over the coming years. Jamie has a real love and strong grasp of short film and we’re very excited to be collaborating with him on a number of upcoming projects. Jamie is also preparing for some major forthcoming feature film roles […]

By |February 13th, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on ESFF announces our new Patron and Ambassador: Jamie Robson
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Inktip Interviews screenwriter Lloyd Wagner

We’re delighted to present another in our short series of interviews, published by our partners INKTIP, the screenwriter’s network!

This time with screenwriter Lloyd Wagner, whose feature film ‘Shadow Fighter’ starring Burt Reynolds and Steve Daron, was released in 2018:

 
INKTIP INTERVIEWS LLOYD WAGNER
 

 

 

By |February 6th, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on Inktip Interviews screenwriter Lloyd Wagner
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Cinetopia #6 – Film Podcast

Edition 6 of Cinetopia is out now, featuring reviews of a whole bunch of Queen-oriented films,  Oscar ruminations and
an interview with up and coming Scottish actor, Jamie Robson!
CINETOPIA 6

 

By |January 31st, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on Cinetopia #6 – Film Podcast
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ESFF Screens Animation at Manipulate 2019

ESFF screens a night of some of our best animations from last year’s festival at Manipulate 2019!

There’s winner of our Best Animation award, the stunning Wicked Girl by Ayce Kartal and the atmospheric world of An Island by Rory Byrne
as well as Aspen ShortFest award winner, Coyote by Lorenz Wunderle and a fair old mix of stunning 2D, Stop-Motion, Puppetry and CGI!

Screening starts noon at the Traverse Theatre on Saturday November 9th!

ESFF AT MANIPULATE

 

By |January 26th, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on ESFF Screens Animation at Manipulate 2019
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Firenze Film Corti on the ESFF

Our partners Firenze Film Corti covered our 2018 event on their blogpage;

FIRENZE FILM CORTI & ESFF

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Inktip Membership prizes for this year’s ESFF Best Films

Thanks to our partners InkTip the screenwriter’s network, we’re offering free memberships and featured listings for this year’s winning films!

Inktip is the leading screenwriter’s network and it’s main focuses are:

Help the producer easily find a good script
Save time for the agent and manager in locating the right people for their clients’ scripts, or new clients
Greatly increase exposure for the screenwriter

By |January 19th, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on Inktip Membership prizes for this year’s ESFF Best Films
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Guest Article: Inktip Interviews Screenwriter Kenneth Lemm

Our good friends at the Screenwriters network INKTIP have sent us an insightful interview into the screenwriter’s world with their interview with writer Kenneth Lemm;

Building a Career: How a Full-Time Architect Built a Screenwriting Career From Scratch 

 

 

By |January 9th, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on Guest Article: Inktip Interviews Screenwriter Kenneth Lemm
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Edinburgh Short FF wins Best Festival award from Take One Magazine!

Excited to announce that the Edinburgh Short Film Festival has won Take One Magazine’s Best Festival award for 2018!
We’re obviously delighted and very honoured to have won and very grateful to Take One Magazine staff for
voting for the ESFF for the award and it’s wonderful to have the hard work of all of our staff and volunteers recognised in this way,
so thanks to all the many people who participated in making our 2018 edition such […]

By |January 8th, 2019|News Posts|Comments Off on Edinburgh Short FF wins Best Festival award from Take One Magazine!
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2019 Now Open For Entry!

We’re excited to open our call for entries for our 2019 edition and looking forward to screening another 8 nights of fabulous short film in Edinburgh later this year!

Presenting awards and trophies for the best films selected by our jury for Best Film, & Best Animation & Best Scottish Short

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This year, we’re also excited to be programming films and film partnerships for our 2019 partners:

The Adriatic Film Festival
The Sardinia Film Festival
Fastnet Film Festival
Firenze FilmCorti (Florence)
Puppet […]

By |January 1st, 2019|News Posts, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2019 Now Open For Entry!
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LOOK BACK TO THE 8TH EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

We’ll soon be opening our call for entries for our 2019 edition but before we do so, we thought we’d publish a quick look back to the 8th edition which ended November 10th screening one of the UK’s strongest short film programmes of the year, and we were delighted to have sold out 6 out of 8 of our screening nights at the Filmhouse and Summerhall!

There was a great atmosphere and some packed screenings,  thanks to all […]

By |December 22nd, 2018|News Posts|Comments Off on LOOK BACK TO THE 8TH EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
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