What is the future for the Edinburgh International Film Festival?

Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2019

The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen have all stopped trading with immediate effect. The parent charity that runs them — Centre for the Moving Image — announced it had called in administrators after what it described as a “perfect storm”. It said it had seen sharply rising…

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Angus Macfadyen is Robert the Bruce: Exclusive Interview on Location

Robert the Bruce. On location in Scotland. Photo by David Ho.

 WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Angus Macfadyen talks to David Petherick of EdinburghFestival.org about his role in the forthcoming film ‘Robert The Bruce’. Originally playing the role of Robert The Bruce in 1995’s Braveheart, Angus talks on location in Scotland about the long journey towards making this movie, the snows of Montana, a conversation with a spider…

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Meeting Jim

Meeting Jim

I’ve invited myself to Sunday dinner at Jim Haynes’ Montparnasse Atelier several times.  Hold on. What kind of jackass invites themselves to dinner? Well, since he first started his dinners in 1978, there have been about 200,000 such jackasses visiting Paris by Jim’s reckoning. He says he has a mission to introduce everyone to each…

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Angus Macfadyen is Robert the Bruce: Exclusive Interview on Set

Robert the Bruce

UPDATE 02-March-2018 13:14 GMT: At the Production’s request, we’re delaying the release of our exclusive interviews to better time with the film’s distribution. WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Angus Macfadyen talks to David Petherick of EdinburghFestival.org about his role in the forthcoming film ‘Robert The Bruce’. Originally playing the role of Robert The Bruce in 1995’s Braveheart, Angus…

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