Folk Cinemas
@FolkCinemas
Forum to explore the radical history + potential of a folk cinema in a global context. AHRC-funded. @FFGEdinburgh w/ @transgressnorth. Insta @folkcinemas
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📽️Next week! Sat 15th July: we're looking for a few more volunteer audience extras to help shoot the final scenes of the film Mysterious Object by Transgressive North at Scottish Storytelling Centre. Enjoy some live #storytelling on the day. Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/z1XyTwfGGyhVBx… Thank you🙏
A final post from FolkFilmGathering 2023. Thanks all who have attended and participated. We have 2 screenings to go. Our Ukrainian films close with AMULET (19:00, Grassmarket Community Project). Tomorrow Luke Fowler's BEING IN A PLACE screens (19:00, Scottish Storytelling Centre) with music from Bell Lungs.
This story in #Gaelic is featured on the #mapofstories website 👉 mapofstories.scot/the-story-of-b… Transgressive North TobarDualchais TRACS
If you missed our show on EHFM last week, you can catch it out now in pod form. This month we cover the 2023 Sheffield DocFest as well as interview Paul Sng director of TISH, Dr Jess Brough from Fringe of Colour and Rohan from Folk Cinemas
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The Scottish Storytelling Centre host a poetic tribute to the filmmaker Margaret Tait & the landscape of Orkney on Thursday, with Luke Fowler's Being in a Place (part of Transgressive North's Folk Film Gatherings). With experimental music from Bell Lungs, and musician-Orcadianist Sarah McFadyen
Can you help out with a new #folkcinema project? We're looking for a volunteer audience to help shoot the final scenes of the film 'Mysterious Object' by Transgressive North at Scottish Storytelling Centre, Sat 15th July 👉 forms.gle/z1XyTwfGGyhVBx… RTs v. welcome! 🙏
Caithness Makar George Gunn tells a story of how a mermaid decides to teach her greedy lover a terrible lesson. The tale is associated with Dunnet Head.
You can watch this story here 📽️👉mapofstories.scot/the-story-of-t…
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Can you help out with a new #folkcinema project? We're looking for a volunteer audience to help shoot the final scenes of the film 'Mysterious Object' by Transgressive North at Scottish Storytelling Centre, Sat 15th July 👉 forms.gle/z1XyTwfGGyhVBx… RTs v. welcome! 🙏
So @FFGEdinburgh2023 is almost at an end. Just 2 screenings to go. On Weds 28/06 at 19:00, you have a 2nd chance to see the Ukrainian film AMULET Grassmarket Community Project. And on Thurs 29/06, at 19:00 Luke Fowler's Margaret Tait film BEING IN A PLACE closes the festival Scottish Storytelling Centre
Do not miss the chance to catch Mykola Rasheev's rarely screened, folk-horror infused film AMULET about two brothers navigating the grey spaces in Kyiv after the collapse of Communism. The Cameo, Edinburgh (17:45, 23/06) Dead By Dawn Fest AllNiteHorrorMadness Edinburgh Horror Festival LetsMakeAHorrorMoviePodcast Ginger Nuts of Horror
Many thanks to Elzara Batalova for her powerful introduction to the first Ukranian film of the festival at the weekend, The Cameo, Edinburgh 'Voice of Grass' AUGB Edinburgh 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Folk Cinemas TRACS
The June edition of our Cinetopia show is airing on @EHFM_live at 12-2pm today featuring reviews of Sheffield DocFest films TISH, Your Fat Friend Film #TheCastle and #LonelyOaks + interviews with Fringe of Colour Dr Jess Brough,TISH director Paul Sng & Rohan from Folk Cinemas
#Onlineshowcase Second Sight, former preacher Donald Angus MacLean searches for the paranormal on the Isle of Skye, on the trail of Sligachan's infamous ghost car. Folk Cinemas Film Hub Scotland North Edinburgh Arts TRACS Edinburgh International Film Festival Folklore Film Fans 🇺🇦 Creative Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre
#Edinburgh folk, is anyone able to help out with this exciting film project by Transgressive North? We're looking to create a lively audience at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for the film's final scenes. Shooting Sat 15th July - more info here. RTs welcome! @ffgedinburgh @tracscot
4 films available to stream during the core festival dates (16th - 30th June) Suggested donations of £3/£6/£9/£12 with our Pay-What-You-Can structure Folk Cinemas Film Hub Scotland What's On Edinburgh AUGB Edinburgh 🇺🇦🇪🇺 EVOC Edinburgh International Film Festival The Skinny
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