Posts Tagged ‘film’
Crowd funding campaign launched to help bring derelict Leith theatre back to life
A local non-profit arts festival is setting its sights on raising £20,000 to help restore the old Leith Theatre in Edinburgh to a fully functioning arts and music venue for the city. Hidden Door’s Kickstarter campaign had an initial target of £10,000, representing the bare minimum needed to ensure the theatre is ready to open…
Read MoreBringing a taste of Napa Valley to the UK
VISITING California with the Wine Institute – to learn more about its sense of place, environmental programmes and diversity of styles – demonstrated the sheer variety of quality wines produced in the Golden State. Yet much of the tastiest wine never leaves the United States – or even, in some cases, California. That’s why it…
Read MoreLochaline school children première their short film to conserve rare species
The freshwater pearl mussel is one of the rarest species found in Scotland and has been pushed to extinction on some rivers as a result of illegal pearl fishing, pollution and dredging. However, whilst great effort is directed at conserving cute and fluffy animals here and abroad, the slightly awkward, ugly ones get less attention.…
Read MoreA review of Trainspotting T2
‘First there was the opportunity and then there was the betrayal.’ This is the sentiment which bookends the much anticipated sequel to Danny Boyle’s 1996 black comedy Trainspotting. Twenty years on in T2 Trainspotting, the boys are showing their age. Instead of running down Princes Street, Renton (Ewan McGregor), crawls along on one of Edinburgh’s…
Read MoreBritish Airways has treated a Scottish customer and her friends to a once in a lifetime Las Vegas trip
British Airways has rolled out the red carpet to surprise a young customer and her friends from Scotland, treating them like VIPs on an unforgettable holiday to Las Vegas. Twenty six year-old Hannah Smith from Aberdeen had booked a holiday to the party town to celebrate being cancer-free, after falling ill with a rare malignant…
Read MoreCanary in the coal mine
Mouth of Hell, a short film by award-winning Edinburgh director Samir Mehanovic and Glasgow producer Michael Wilson, along with their Scottish film crew, has been nominated for a BAFTA. The film is set in the Indian town of Jharia, where underground fires rage in the coal fields, swallowing up homes and causing terrible health problems…
Read MoreScottish Wildcat documentary filmed at Aigas Field Centre
A new feature length documentary by Bellatrix Photography and Film Ltd has been filmed at Aigas Field Centre where renowned conservationist John Lister-Kaye, who features in the documentary, and Aigas Staff Naturalist Louise Hughes are leading a captive breeding programme for Scottish Wildcats. Aigas is one of five captive-breeding centres in the Scottish Wildcat Conservation…
Read MoreAnd so to Ayr…
Thursday April 14th – where tomorrow we run Forcefield for the Earley & Macdonald partnership in the 5.05, Lucy rides, 14 run and the ground is on the easy side of good. This is a step up in class and a step up in distance, it is a competitive handicap befitting of the Scottish National meeting…
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