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Tartan Features
Tartan Features is a filmmaking network and distribution platform based in Scotland. It supports the production of micro-budget feature films. Origin Tartan Features was established in 2013. Its name is in reference to the defunct "Tartan Shorts" filmmaking strand run by the Scottish Screen Production Fund (later Scottish Screen) and BBC Scotland. In February 2014, Tartan Features made their first venture into do-it-yourself cinema distribution. Their first feature, ''Sarah's Room'' (then titled ''To Here Knows When'') was screened at the Edinburgh Filmhouse Cinema via a collaboration with the independent short film night, Write-Shoot-Cut. This was the first opportunity in Scotland for independent filmmakers to have their micro-budget feature films to be screened regularly in a cinema. ''Sarah's Room'' was followed by three other Tartan Features Write-Shoot-Cut collaborations during 2014: ''Skeletons'', ''Take It Back and Start All Over Again'' and ''A Practical Guide to a Specta ...
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Micro-budget
A low-budget film or low-budget movie is a motion picture shot with little to no funding from a major film studio or private investor. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films made on the mainstream circuit with inexperienced or unknown filmmakers can also have low budgets. Many young or first time filmmakers shoot low-budget films to prove their talent before doing bigger productions. Most low-budget films that do not gain some form of attention or acclaim are never released in theatres and are often sent straight to retail because of their lack of marketability, look, narrative story, or premise A premise or premiss is a true or false statement that helps form the body of an argument, which logically leads to a true or false conclusion. A premise makes a declarative statement about its subject matter which enables a reader to either agre .... There is no precise number to define a low budget production, and it is relative to both genre and country. What migh ...
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Found Footage (film Technique)
Found Footage or found footage may refer to: * Found footage (appropriation), the use in a film of footage previously made for another purpose ** Collage film, a film assembled entirely from found footage * Found footage (film technique), a style of film fiction which simulates the use of found footage * ''Found Footage 3D'', an American found footage horror film * Found Footage Festival The Found Footage Festival is an American film festival and live comedy event and featuring unusual and humorous found footage clips and films. History Founded in 2004, the Festival originated in Wisconsin and Minnesota by Joe Pickett, Nick Prue ...
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20th Digital Studio
20th Digital Studio (also known onscreen as simply 20th Digital and formerly known as Fox Digital Studio from 2008 to 2013 and Zero Day Fox from 2013 to 2020) is an American web series and web films production and distribution company founded in 2008 as a digital media, and is a subsidiary of 20th Century Studios, a division of Walt Disney Studios, which is itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. Their focus has evolved to funding and producing short-form genre content by new filmmakers from the digital and film festival worlds. It was established in 2008. It has produced web series such as Vin Diesel's ''The Ropes'', ''Wolfpack of Reseda'', ''Let's Big Happy'', ''Suit Up'', '' Bad Samaritans'', and ''Suit Up 2'', as well as films like ''Shotgun Wedding''. ''Suit Up'', starring Marc Evan Jackson, is the first of the studio's shows to be picked up for a second season. It was produced in partnership with DirecTV. 20th Digital Studio is one of the 21st Century Fox studios ...
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Anna And The Apocalypse
''Anna and the Apocalypse'' is a 2017 British Christmas zombie musical film directed by John McPhail from a screenplay by Alan McDonald and Ryan McHenry based on McHenry's 2010 BAFTA nominated short ''Zombie Musical''. It stars an ensemble cast of largely unknown young talent, including Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Ben Wiggins, Mark Benton and Paul Kaye. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on 22 September 2017. It was released in the United Kingdom by Vertigo Releasing and United States by Orion Pictures on 30 November 2018 to generally positive reviews from critics, commending the performances, musical numbers and characterisation. Plot In Little Haven, Scotland, Anna Shepherd is about to finish school and plans to travel for a year before attending university, much to the displeasure of her widower father Tony. Her friends are dealing with their own issues: her best friend John, an artist, is secretly in love with her, budding fil ...
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John McPhail (director)
John McPhail is a Scottish film director and screenwriter. Life and career McPhail studied Cinematography at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. During his time there he met and formed a close working relationship with Tyler Collins and Andrew Lanni. After graduating from the Conservatoire he worked on the BBC television series '' Waterloo Road'' and was assistant camera operator on the film ''Up There'' by Zam Salim. In 2013 he formed his own production company Worrying Drake Productions and produced a trilogy of short films with Collins and Lanni to produce a trilogy of short comedy films; ''Notes'' was a romantic comedy about a pair of roommates whose relationship develops through a series of post it notes. '' V for Visa'' and ''Doug & Steve's Big Holy Adventure'' completed the comedy trilogy. '' V for Visa'' had its North American premiere at Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Film Centre in New York as part of the Bootleg Film Festival. The film went on to win the Best Directo ...
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National Museum Of Scotland
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in 1866 as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, renamed in 1904, and for the period between 1985 and the merger named the Royal Museum of Scotland or simply the Royal Museum), with international collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures. The two connected buildings stand beside each other on Chambers Street, by the intersection with the George IV Bridge, in central Edinburgh. The museum is part of National Museums Scotland. Admission is free. The two buildings retain distinctive characters: the Museum of Scotland is housed in a modern building opened in 1998, while the former Royal Museum building was begun in 1861 and partially opened in 1866, with a Victorian Venetian Renaissance facade and a gr ...
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Rose McDowall
Rose McDowall (née Porter; born 21 October 1959) is a Scottish musician, forming Strawberry Switchblade with Jill Bryson in 1981. History McDowall was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1959. Her first venture into music was in the Poems, an art-punk trio formed in 1978 with her then-husband Drew McDowall. She then formed Strawberry Switchblade in 1981 with Jill Bryson. After signing with Warner Bros. Records, they enjoyed chart success with their single "Since Yesterday" in 1984; however, later singles and an album did not sell as well as expected. This and internal problems led to an acrimonious split in 1986. For the next six years, McDowall was primarily a guest vocalist or "floating member" of several different alternative bands, particularly in the neofolk genre. She contributed backing or lead vocals for Coil, Current 93, Death in June, Felt, Alex Fergusson, Into a Circle, Megas, Nature and Organisation, Nurse with Wound, Ornamental, Psychic TV and Boyd Rice on recording ...
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Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City. Founded in 1977, it was originally known as Kino International until it was acquired by and merged into Lorber HT Digital in 2009. It specializes in art house films, such as documentary films, classic films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema. In addition to theatrical distribution, Kino Lorber releases films in the home entertainment market and has its own streaming services for its digital library. History 1977–2008; Founding as Kino International Kino Lorber was founded as Kino International in 1977 by Bill Pence. It was then purchased by Donald Krim who at the time worked for United Artists as the head of the nontheatrical department. It began by importing and releasing international films that may have not otherwise reached the market in the United States. One of the first films imported under Krim was ''Ballad of Orin''. In 1977, the company acquired rights to t ...
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The Innocents (TV Series)
''The Innocents'' (stylised as ''The Innøcents'') is a British supernatural television series created by Hania Elkington and Simon Duric. The series premiered on 24 August 2018 on Netflix. Premise Two teenagers, June and Harry, run away together. However, June starts displaying abilities that throw them down a dangerous path. Cast Main * Sorcha Groundsell as June McDaniel, a woman with supernatural, shapeshifting abilities known as a "shifter" * Percelle Ascott as Harry Polk, June's boyfriend, who runs away with her * Sam Hazeldine as John McDaniel, June's stern, overprotective step-father * Nadine Marshall as Christine Polk, Harry's mother and a police officer * Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as Steinar, Halvorson's troubled right-hand man * Laura Birn as Elena Askeland, June's mother and a shifter who struggles to control her power. * Ingunn Beate Øyen as Runa Gundersen, Halvorson's wife and patient, who is suffering from the early onset of dementia * Arthur Hughes as Ryan ...
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Sorcha Groundsell
Sorcha Groundsell (born 15 February 1998) is a Scottish actress. She starred in the Netflix series ''The Innocents (TV series), The Innocents'' (2018) and the independent film ''Far From the Apple Tree'' (2018). Early life Her father was a graphic designer, and her mother worked in marketing. Groundsell grew up in Ness, Lewis, Ness on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides until she was nine. A fluent Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic speaker, she attended the Glasgow Gaelic School upon moving to the city. She took drama classes at the Citizens Theatre and later the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She left school at 16 to pursue acting as career and moved to London at 18. Career In 2015, Groundsell made her feature film and stage debuts as Sarah in ''Iona (film), Iona'' and Amy in ''Stain'' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival respectively. She received an RTS Award nomination for her role in ''Sleeping Lions''. The following year, she starred as Jane Muncie in the ITV true crime miniseri ...
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Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ...
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Starburst (magazine)
''Starburst'' is a British science fiction magazine published by Starburst Magazine Limited. ''Starburst'' contains news, interviews, features, and reviews of genre material in various media, including TV, film, soundtracks, multimedia, books, and comics books. The magazine is published quarterly, with additional news and reviews being published daily on the website. Publication history ''Starburst'' was launched in December 1977 by editor Dez Skinn with his own company Starburst Publishing Ltd. The name ''Starburst'' was settled on after rejecting other names, including ''Starfall'', as Skinn considered it too negative. ''Starburst'' was taken over by Marvel UK with issue #4, as part of deal whereby Skinn was put in charge of the UK comic reprints division. Marvel put the title up for sale in 1985 and it was bought by Visual Imagination and published by them from issue #88. Having reached issue #365 in 2008, the magazine ceased publishing due to Visual Imagination folding. I ...
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