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NEWS 7<br />
17 <strong>Scottish</strong> Shorts on<br />
BBC Film Network<br />
The BBC’s Film Network has a selection of some great short films online to<br />
view (and some to download) with a good batch of <strong>Scottish</strong> shorts in the<br />
mix.<br />
Featuring short films across a range of genres including drama, comedy,<br />
documentary, animation, experimental and music, the website is a rich<br />
resource of over 200 short films.<br />
There are now 17 <strong>Scottish</strong> shorts to view including: Icicle Melt, Ma Boy,<br />
Mono, The Rest is Silence, The Tree Officer and Who Do you Love.<br />
Bryony McIntyre, from <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Screen</strong>’s Market Development team says:<br />
“Previously it’s been pretty hard to see short films on demand. Festival<br />
screenings and monthly short film nights aside, it’s great to see <strong>Scottish</strong><br />
shorts embracing new platforms for distribution and new audiences. It’s<br />
an easy way to see some top new talent from the comfort of your own<br />
computer.”<br />
You can view the films, vote for your favourite, and submit your own short<br />
film.<br />
For more information go to www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork<br />
Icicle Melt<br />
Ma Boy<br />
Mono<br />
The Rest is Silence<br />
The Tree Officer<br />
Who Do you Love<br />
Park Circus win UKFC<br />
Grant for Manhattan<br />
Park Circus, based in Glasgow, and one of the UK’s leading distributors of classic<br />
films, has secured £3,800 through the UK Film Council’s Print & Advertising Fund, to<br />
reissue Woody Allen’s black and white comedy, Manhattan, (pictured below) on new<br />
35mm prints.<br />
Park Circus currently represent over 6000 titles from the Granada International and<br />
MGM/UA film collections for theatrical exhibition in the UK and overseas. Titles<br />
include classic films from the golden age of British and Hollywood cinema, such<br />
as The General, Brief Encounter, The African Queen, Twelve Angry Men, and The<br />
Magnificent Seven, together with modern movie classics, including The Adventures<br />
of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Shawshank Redemption.<br />
Many titles are available in newly restored 35mm prints and the increased use of<br />
digital technology in cinemas will see titles also being released in HD format.<br />
The new print of Manhattan will be shown at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse from 8 until 21<br />
December. For more information visit www.filmhousecinema.com.<br />
For more information about Park Circus visit www.parkcircus.com.<br />
For more information about the UKFC’s Print & Advertising Fund, visit<br />
www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/cinemagoing/distributionandexhibition/pandafund/<br />
SCREENWRITING TRAINING<br />
The University of Edinburgh is offering aspiring screenwriters<br />
the chance to learn how to write an original or adapted<br />
script for film and television.<br />
<strong>Screen</strong>writing 2:<br />
Script Development<br />
now in its fifth successful year, is part of the University’s 27-<br />
week screenwriting programme. This practical course guides<br />
those with a basic knowledge or experience of screenwriting<br />
into more advanced techniques and professional thinking. It<br />
explores craft elements of screenwriting in depth: character,<br />
conflict, theme, subtext, scene and sequence writing.<br />
The course is taught by screenwriter and film producer,<br />
Douglas Dougan, of Edinburgh-based Fluid Eye Productions.<br />
One of their productions, Run Tony Run! won the BAFTA<br />
Scotland award for Best New <strong>Screen</strong>play.<br />
Adaptation –<br />
From Short Story To Short Film<br />
is a new course to the programme. Over 60% of all screen<br />
dramas we watch are adaptations. Using a combination<br />
of practical exercises and discussion of film and prose, this<br />
10-week course will introduce you to the art of adapting<br />
literature for the screen and guide you through the process<br />
of adapting a short story into a short film. Suitable both<br />
for beginners and those with some experience of creative<br />
writing.<br />
Tutor Tracey Emerson is a prize-winning short story writer.<br />
She is currently writing short stories and her first novel, as<br />
well as developing a short film.<br />
<strong>Screen</strong>writing 2: Script Development runs on Monday<br />
and/or Wednesday evenings from 15 January.<br />
Adaptation – From Short Story To Short Film runs on<br />
Wednesday mornings from 17 January.<br />
The final advanced section of the programme, <strong>Screen</strong>writing<br />
3: From Page to <strong>Screen</strong>, runs on Wednesdays from 18 April.<br />
For more details, visit<br />
www.lifelong.ed.ac.uk/cpe/brochure.html<br />
or call 0131 650 4400.<br />
www.scottishscreen.com
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