DAY 1 -3 at the 12th Edinburgh Short Film Festival Stills

We’ve had a lovely first weekend at the 2022 Edinburgh Short Film Festival and thanks to our colleagues at GMAC for helping with the Low Budget Filmmaking Workshop and for
co-curating our Scottish Shorts programme. Thanks also to visiting filmmakers from far and near including Damon Mohl from Indiana, Tom Lynch from Ireland, Ivar Wigan from LA, a whole heap of Scottish filmmakers, the 7 Second IFF for their micro-highlights, Duncan Cowles for presenting the workshop, […]

By |October 31st, 2022|Uncategorized|Comments Off on DAY 1 -3 at the 12th Edinburgh Short Film Festival Stills
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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 […]

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
 

 

 

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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 

 

 

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Guest Article: Inktip Interviews Screenwriter Mark E McCann

Our friends at the US-Based screenwriters networks have created a couple of guest blogs for us and the first of these is an interview with feature film screenplay writer Mark E McCann discussing
how he started in screenwriting:
Mark E. McCann’s Beautifully Broken Inspires On & Off the Screen

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Shore Scripts Competitions & Edinburgh Shorts

Our writer pals at Shore Scripts regularly offer some of the best film-related prizes around and this year they are putting up awards of between $9,000 –  $15,000 in production funding and equipment hire for the winning screenplay of their latest Short Film Fund competition!
The prize money will be aimed at turning the winning script into a completed short film and we’d be delighted to screen the winning film at next year’s ESFF!
We’re also delighted […]

By |March 17th, 2018|News Posts|Comments Off on Shore Scripts Competitions & Edinburgh Shorts
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Fresh Air FM talks shorts with Edinburgh Short Film Festival!

We’ve been interviewed by Fresh Air FM about this year’s Edinburgh Short Film Festival!

Interview starts at 26:20

 

 

By |October 30th, 2017|News Posts|Comments Off on Fresh Air FM talks shorts with Edinburgh Short Film Festival!
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2017 Preview

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival: Edinburgh’s accessible, friendly and eclectic short film festival, is now in its 7th year!

We’ve an exciting programme lined up for 2017, featuring 32 UK premieres, 28 award-winning short films as well as no less than 20 Scottish-made films, a total of 78 short films from 25 different countries ranging from Chinese drama and German Horror to Greek Sci-Fi, arthouse cinema from the USA and animation from India. There’s award winning […]

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2016 Script Pitch Finalists & MMBF

We’re delighted that our 2016 Script Pitch winner Daniel Brown and runner-up James Hannan, are going to the 2017 London Screenwriters Festival!

Hoping we can send another 2 lucky young, Scottish-based writers to the 2018 LSF!

MMBF and our 2016 Script Pitch winners

 

 

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