ESFF at the 10th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival

We’re excited to be presenting a programme at the 10th anniversary edition of Balkans Beyond Borders Film Festival
and looking forward to welcoming them to the 2019 ESFF in November!

We’re delighted to present the work of talented, young Scottish film-makers to audiences at BBBFF 2019,
Our screening takes place on Oct 19th in Athens and the full line up and more details online:
ESFF AT BALKANS BEYOND BORDERS 2019

 

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Preview to the 9th Edinburgh Short Film Festival Oct 24-Nov 10

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival once again is bringing some of the world’s best short films to Edinburgh and is pretty much your only chance to see one of the UK’s strongest short film programmes.

From Academy Award winners to Annecy Animation Festival Winners and Cannes winning shorts, BAFTA winners and winners from San Francisco, Brussels, Rome, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea and beyond alongside the best 2019 Scottish and UK short films.

On Nov 1st, we’re […]

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ESFF 2019 PROGRAMME JUST OUT!

We’re thrilled to have completed the programme for the 9th edition of the Edinburgh Short Film Festival!

Opening night is at the Filmhouse on Thursday October 24th with a programme of shorts, including the 2019 Cannes Best Short Winner, BAFTA Scotland winner and best animation at Fantoche Int. Animation Festival!

There’s a rich and very diverse range of films from Taiwanese animation to Indian romcom to Croatian comedy. There’s 36 UK Premieres, including the 2019 Oscar winning […]

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ESFF Interviews #6: Natalie Oliver & Julian Seager

Another in our film interview series, this time with the very talented actors, Natalie Oliver & Julian Seager whose multi-award winning short horror ‘BAGHEAD’ was screened at the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival!

Natalie & Julian talk about the film and horror acting in general with the ESFF!

Filmed and edited with love and care by Amanda Rogers at RPP Productions!

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ESFF Film-Maker Interviews #4: Barnabas Toth

We were delighted to play host to the very charming Barnabas Toth from Budapest whose short film ‘Chuchotage’ screened at the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival and was also Oscar nominated!

A slyly witty romantic comedy staged with care and attention to detail, Chuchotage was one of our favourite comedies of last year and we interviewed him about the film in Edinburgh!

Video and editing by Amada Rogers of RPP Productions

 

 

 

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ESFF 2018 Highlights

Here’s a short video of some of the highlights from the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival!

Thanks to all the film-makers who participated and looking forward to seeing your next films,

Filmed and edited by the talented and indefatigable Amanda Rogers

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‘Little Shit’ by Richard Gorodecky reviewed by Federica Pugliese

Screened at last year’s ESFF, LITTLE SHIT is a beautifully shot and intense coming of age drama, set amid a

high-rise London council estate. Directed by Richard Gorodecky and reviewed here by our scribe,
the talented Federica Pugliese!

LITTLE SHIT REVIEW

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Pics from our short film screening in Bendigo, Australia

Thanks to Chris Earl at Scots Day Out for sending us some pics of the ESFF screening at the Colonial Theatre in Bendigo!

Looks like a busy night and a very appreciative audience for some fine Scottish-made short films including Not Required Back by Peter Marsden, Close to the Bone by Will Pickering, The Wider Sun by Sophia Carr-Gomm,  Radioactive by Pamela Gray and Lost and Found by Andre Franco.

Looking forward to screening there next year!

 

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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 […]

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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
 

 

 

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