Screenplay 2015 Programme

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28 August – 6 September 2015

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Shetland’s annual film festival

Welcome On behalf of Shetland Arts, welcome to Screenplay – that time of the year when you can disappear into a dark space, and emerge ten days later blinking into the daylight, having seen some of the best of what screen culture has to offer.

This year that will include some classic films that are currently enjoying a resurgence of interest, some terrific documentaries and lots of locally made product. As usual we will be waving the flag for UK film and television, and for emerging film-makers from home and away. The craft of short film-making will come under the spotlight and there will be opportunities to learn about film editing and to have a go at simple animation.

We will be catching up with Screenplay friend, director Joshua Oppenheimer in cyberspace again, whilst those visiting us in person include actor Lindsay Duncan, director Carol Morley, producer Cairo Cannon, screenwriter, director and actor Mark Gatiss and musician Candida Doyle.

We would like to thank all our funding partners, and especially Regional Screen Scotland, for their support of the festival. The involvement and support of local companies, groups and volunteers keeps the festival rooted in the community, as do the contributions of local film makers – more power to your creative elbows!

We’d also like to thank those creative individuals and festivals who have so generously provided advice, encouragement and mentoring (especially Mike Tait from the Discovery Festival in Dundee) and the Nordkapp Film Festival in Norway for its contribution to this year’s programming.

Mark and Linda Mark has made his life even more complicated by adding the job of being the Observer’s chief film critic to his portfolio, whilst writing a book with BBC Radio 5 Live co-presenter Simon Mayo.

Linda is busy with her teaching and research work on Calling the Shots about women in 21st century British screen culture, and her forthcoming book on Stanley Kubrick.

Kathy Kathy has failed to find retirement at all, and has been scouring the far north for films made by our Scandinavian neighbours to show at this year’s festival.

“Now,” as they say on Pearl & Dean, “sit back, relax, and enjoy the films!”

Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and Kathy Hubbard

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Contents SHETLAND FILM CLUB

Family Friendly

p4

Documentaries

p8

Made in Shetland p9

Partners

Classic Films

p11

Short Films

p14

Schedule

p16

Guest Films

p19

New Drama

p27

Look North

p28

Participate

p30

Booking Shetland Box Office Mareel & Islesburgh Community Centre

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Venues Mareel

Fair Isle Hall

Bressay Hall

T: 01595 745500 Email: info@mareel.org

Tel: 01595 760228

Tel: 01595 820773

Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0WQ

Fair Isle Shetland ZE2 9JU

Bressay Shetland ZE2 9ER

Film to be confirmed

Family Friendly

Fiddlesticks

(Belle et Sébastien)

Belle and Sebastien

Germany 2014 Suitable 5+ 90 min Dubbed Dir Veit Helmer Cast Pieter Budak, Nora Börner, Benno Fürmann SAT 29 AUG 11:30 Screen 1 SAT 5 SEPT 11:15 Screen 1

France 2013 Cert PG 104 min Subtitles £8/6 £8/6

The Coati Gang - six young children and their pet coati - live in Bollersville, Germany, driving their parents and teachers up the wall with their pranks and antics. But they love their weird and wonderful grandparents, so when a government department opens up in their town insisting that their grandparents have to go into care, the Gang protest and set about making plans to get them back.

Fabulous, exuberant and boisterous, this film is laugh-out-loud fun: kids, be sure to bring your grandparents!

Fiddlesticks has English subtitles, but to make it easier for our young audience, the film will be dubbed LIVE in the auditorium

by John Haswell, Kathy Hubbard and Izzy Swanson - an all-time first for Mareel!

This is going to be so much fun ...

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Dir Nicolas Vanier Cast Felix Bossuet, Tchéky Caryo, Margaux Châtelier SAT 29 AUG 19:30 Screen 2 £8/6 SUN 30 AUG 11:15 Screen 2 £7/5 MON 31 AUG 17:00 Screen 1 £5.50/4.50 TUE 1 SEPT 16:30 Screen 2 £5.50/4.50 THU 3 SEPT 16:30 Screen 1 £5.50/4.50

Based on a much-loved 1960s French TV series this film is set during World War II in the snowy Alps of occupied France.

Sebastien is a lonely boy who dreams of the day his mother will return from America – the place that his adoptive grandfather tells him she’s gone. He finds companionship with “the beast” that local farmers are convinced is killing their sheep – an enormous sheepdog that quickly proves anything but dangerous, instead becoming the boy’s best friend and protector. With Nazis rooting out the Resistance fighters helping Jewish refugees cross the border to Switzerland, Belle and Sebastien soon prove their courage to the skeptical villagers.

Shorts for Wee Ones

Song of the Sea

Various countries Suitable 4+ 45 min

Dir Tomm Moore Voice cast David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan

SUN 30 AUG 14:00 Screen 2 WED 2 SEPT 14:00 Screen 2

Ireland 2014 Cert PG 93 mins

£4/3 £4/3

Shorts for Middle Ones Various countries Suitable 7+ 50 min SUN 30 AUG 15:30 Screen 2 MON 31 AUG 17:30 Screen 2

£4/3 £4/3

This year's short animations for children come from the 2014 Discovery Children's Film Festival in Dundee. There are several charming films from different countries, none of which need subtitles. With titles like 'Zebra' (where a clumsy zebra has to re-arrange his stripes after bumping into a tree) and 'Snowflake' (where an African boy receives the gift of a snowflake from a friend far away), these films are a treat for children from 4 to 90.

SUN 30 AUG 16:30 Screen 1 TUE 1 SEPT 13:00 Screen 1 TUE 1 SEPT 17:30 Screen 1 SAT 5 SEPT 17:30 Screen 2

£8/6 £5.50/4.50 £8/6 £8/6

We know many of you missed this during the summer holiday season, so Screenplay is more than happy to provide another chance to see this enchanting film about selkies, myth and magic. Ben and his little sister Saoirse lose their mother, a selkie, when she returns to the sea. Saoirse is part selkie too, and she and Ben must go on a journey to free the faeries, save the spirit world, and in doing so, rescue their family from grief.

The animation is fabulous, and the music and the storytelling is haunting and beautiful.

The story may be set in Ireland but the selkies are part of our folklore as well. This is spellbinding viewing for children and adults too.

We would like to thank the Discovery Children’s Film Festival for their advice and for their support of Screenplay.

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Family Friendly

Internet Cat Video Festival

Lord of the Rings

USA 2014 Suitable for all 70 min

Dir Ralph Bakshi Voiced by Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes

USA 1978 Cert PG 132 min

Producer Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA SUN 30 AUG 14:15 Screen 1 WED 2 SEPT 17:30 Screen 1 SAT 5 SEPT 17:00 Screen 1

£6/4 £6/4 £6/4

Everyone loves a cat video (apart from dogs, probably ...). And research suggests that many of us spend an awful lot of time online watching them. Now, thanks to the sterling efforts of the Walker Art Center, who have trawled the internet so that you don't have to, you can watch a whole programme's worth of feline films. A smash hit at the Glasgow Film Festival earlier this year where they had to put on extra screenings, we think this will be compulsory viewing here in Shetland. Book your tickets early or you may miss out ... which would be a 'paw' show.

The Internet Cat Video Festival is produced and curated by the Walker Art Center.

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SAT 29 AUG 11:15 Screen 2 £7/5 SUN 30 AUG 11:00 Screen 1 £7/5 MON 31 AUG 14:00 Screen 2 £5.50/4.50 THU 3 SEPT 17:00 Screen 2 £8/6 SUN 6 SEPT 11:00 Screen 2 £7/5

A rare chance to see not the Peter Jackson extravaganza, but an animated film by Ralph Bakshi presenting the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's renowned fantasy tale. The wise old wizard, Gandalf (William Squire), entrusts the young hobbit, Frodo (Christopher Guard), with a magical ring. Soon dark forces are after Frodo, so he must leave his peaceful home and travel to the ominous Mount Doom, where the ring must be destroyed.

Accompanied by a trio of hobbit friends, Frodo is also aided by the mysterious Aragorn (John Hurt) and other heroic allies.

Documentaries

The Look of Silence

Alive Inside USA 2014 Suitable 12+ 125 min inc Q&A

Denmark 2015 Cert 15 120 min inc intro Subtitles

Dir Michael Rossato-Bennett With Dan Cohen, Louise Dueno, Oliver Sacks

Dir Joshua Oppenheimer TUE 1 SEPT 20:00 Screen 1

£8/6

SAT 29 AUG 17:30 Screen 1 THU 3 SEPT 19:15 Screen 1

£8/6 £8/6

A welcome return to Screenplay for extraordinary film maker Joshua Oppenheimer. Through his footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions.

This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

A joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity, Alive Inside chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music. This stirring documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the non-profit organization Music & Memory, as he fights against a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music’s ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. An uplifting cinematic exploration of music and the mind, Alive Inside’s inspirational and emotional story left audiences humming, clapping and cheering at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award.

The screening will be introduced by the director on Skype.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with music therapist Alice Mullay.

Our thanks to Amnesty International Shetland for its support of this film.

Our thanks to Alzheimer's Scotland and UNISON for their support of this screening.

Joshua Oppenheimer Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer is an Oscar-nominated American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Oppenheimer is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award and a 1997 Marshall Scholar.

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Made in Shetland

Tell Wiz Shetland 2015 Suitable for all ages 140 min inc. Q&A SAT 29 AUG 14:00 Screen 1 SUN 6 SEPT 14:30 Screen 1* *There is no Q&A after this screening

£8/6 £8/6

Produced by Shetland Forwirds Stage show directed by Morag Mouat

Script and lyrics by Harry Kay and Ronnie Mathewson Film made by JJ Jamieson

The All-Shetland Musical Show from 1958, depicting in words and music incidents in the life and history of Lerwick during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. With additional script by Laureen Johnson and Davy Cooper, this extraordinary production sold out three nights at The Garrison Theatre in May this year. It is now coming to the big screen, thanks to local film maker JJ Jamieson who recorded it during its rehearsal and stage run. This is good news for the many folk

who were unable to get a ticket in May and for those who want to see it again. Come and see a terrific cast, supported by some excellent musicians, as they take us through what is often referred to as Lerwick's 'Golden Age'.

The 29 August screening will be followed by a Q&A with Mary Blance and various participants.

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Made in Shetland

Home Made

Film Poems and Portraits

by Roseanne Watt

4 Minute Wonders Various Suitable for all 90 min FRI 4 SEPT 17:30 Screen 1

£6/4

The most popular event of the festival every year, this is a chance to see the work of Shetland film makers of all ages and abilities.

This year the films can be no longer than four minutes and can be on any subject and in any genre. We will be asking the audience to choose their favourite - who will it be this year?

5 to 20 Various Suitable 12+ 90 min SUN 6 SEPT 11:30 Screen 1

£6/4

For those local film makers who are ready and able to take on longer 'short films' and perhaps more grown-up themes we have introduced a new category of 'Home Made' this year. These films can be no shorter than five minutes and no longer than twenty. We are looking forward to what will emerge ...

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Scotland 2015 Suitable for all 45 min inc Q&A Dir Roseanne Watt SAT 5 SEPT 13:00 Screen 2

£5

Roseanne Watt is a Shetland-born film-maker and poet, whose work primarily engages with memory and the connections between self and place. She completed an MLitt in Creative Writing in 2014, specialising in filmpoetry, and is currently undertaking an AHRCfunded research project at the University of Stirling, supervised by Professor Kathleen Jamie and Dr Sarah Neely. Her doctoral thesis investigates new ways of negotiating time and tradition within the literature of Shetland – particularly in how to approach writing contemporary poetry. As part of her creative practice, she is creating an archive of ‘film-portraits’ of various Shetlanders and their selection of film-poetry and filmportraits from her Masters and Doctoral theses.

Roseanne, one of the founder members of Maddrim Media, will take part in a Q&A afterwards.

Classic Films

The Black Pirate

Jaws

with live piano accompaniment

USA 1975 Cert PG 124 min

USA 1926 Cert U 95 min

Dir Steven Spielberg Cast Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Dir Albert Parker Cast Douglas Fairbanks Senior, Billie Dove and Sam de Grasse FRI 28 AUG 20:00 Screen 1 SAT 29 AUG 19:30 Fair Isle Hall* *Tickets available at the door

£10/8 £6/4

For the official launch of this year's festival, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. stars as a nobleman who is the sole survivor of a vessel seized by pirates. They blow up the ship, killing everyone on board, including his father.

Fairbanks' character vows revenge and subsequently joins the pirate crew, appearing to aid them whilst plotting their ultimate downfall, and protecting his lady love at the same time. This swashbuckling classic will be accompanied live on piano by Philip Taylor. Come dressed as a pirate! There will be pirate-themed cocktails and mocktails in the cafe bar afterwards to match the mood of derring-do.

MON 31 AUG 19:30 Screen 1 SAT 5 SEPT 20:00 Screen 2

£7/5 £9/7

When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. But after their first encounter with the beast, they soon realise that they are going to need a bigger boat ...

This is the 40th anniversary of the release of this iconic film, and it still delivers the tension, the drama and the punch (or should we say 'the bite'?)

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Classic Films

Silent Running USA 1972 Cert PG 120 min inc intro Dir Douglas Trumbull Cast Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin SUN 6 SEPT 19:30 Screen 1

£9/7

Silent Running is one of Mark Kermode’s favourite films, and he will give an introductory talk before the screening.

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In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. But not botanist Freeman Lowell who loves the forest and its creatures.

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Short Films

Mark Jenkins

Keeping It Short Various film makers Suitable 12+ 120 min inc Q&A SUN 30 AUG 17:00 Screen 2

£5

Film maker and short film enthusiast Mark Jenkins has put together 90 minutes of his favourite short films (and some of his own, by our request!) and will tell you why short films are such a special art form, pointing up the range and diversity of what can be seen. He will be joined by animator Elizabeth Hobbs, with whom he has collaborated in the past, and whose work features in this screening.

Mark Jenkins has been a film editor for almost 20 years, producing fiction and documentary films that have received over fifty awards and nominations. He teaches the craft of film editing to all levels up to MA Certificate.

Moving to Orkney in 2007 stimulated his film-making practice where he has filmed and directed over twenty short films.

Elizabeth Hobbs Elizabeth Hobbs is an independent animator based in East London.

She trained at Edinburgh College of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and lived in Scotland until 2002. Her short films have been screened widely internationally and won many awards.

Screen Academy

10th Anniversary Shorts Various Suitable 14+ 110 min inc Intro and Q&A Some subtitles Introduced by Professor Robin MacPherson Screen Academy Scotland - Ten Years of Talent WED 2 SEPT 20:30 Screen 2

£5/4

A celebration screening of the highlights from the first ten years of Screen Academy Scotland, a partnership between Scotland’s leading film practice institutions, Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art. This is also a chance to meet the University of the Highlands and Islands' new Chair of Creative Industries who will be based here in Shetland from the start of the new term.

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Robin MacPherson Robin began making films on Standard8 in the 1970s as a teenager. At the Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust he made over a dozen documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC amongst others. After setting up his own production company, he joined Scottish Screen in 1999 as head of development and in 2002 he joined Edinburgh Napier University and began working on the establishment of Screen Academy Scotland of which he has been director for its first ten years.

Flankers & The Alpha Invention Double bill SAT 29 AUG 22:00 Screen 2 SUN 6 SEPT 13:30 Screen 1

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Flankers Newfoundland, Canada 2015 Suitable 14+ 15 min Dir Justin Oakey Cast Joel Thomas Hynes, Monica Walsh, Lawrence Barry

On the eve of a storm in rural Newfoundland, feuding fishermen are forced to set their conflicts aside when an emergency arises.

Justin Oakey Justin Oakey is an award-winning filmmaker from rural Newfoundland, raised on hunting, fishing, and storytelling. His work is atmospheric and tense, with a quiet sense of naturalism. He has worked on a series of music videos before completing his first dramatic short film, The World Is Burning. The following year, he completed his second short film, Flankers. After premiering at the Atlantic Film Festival it has been invited to screen in festivals across Canada, the USA, Europe, Africa, and Australia. Justin is currently developing his first feature film.

The Alpha Invention UK 2014 Suitable 14+ 16 min Dir Mark Towers Cast Billy Boyd

After applying an ingenious method to create artificial intelligence on his home computer, a reclusive programmer is contacted one rainy evening by a suspicious dealer looking to buy the technology from him. However, as the call progresses it becomes clear that neither man is who or what they claim to be.

A science-fiction plot told through a neo-noir convention.

Mark Towers Mark Towers is an independent film maker living in London.

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Village at the The Black Slow West End of the Pirate World p28 p11 p27 11:15

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Lord of the Fiddlesticks Tell Wiz Rings

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Alive Inside

The Black Belle and Pirate Sebastien p8 p11

Lord of the Belle and Rings Sebastien

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Shorts for Wee Ones p4 19:15

Song of the Keeping It Pulp Sea Short

p5 p14

Tue 1 Sept

Mon 31 Aug

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Bear Island p9

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Frame by Frame p28 p30

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Raspberry Flankers & Boat Refugee The Alpha p4 p29 Invention p15

Internet Cat Shorts for Video Festival Middle Ones p5 p6 p5 Village at the Bear Island End of the p19 World p28 p28

Lord of the Raspberry Belle and Rings Boat Refugee Sebastien

p6 p29 17:30

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Shorts for Start Getting Jaws Middle Ones Animated

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Dreams of a Life p11 p25

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Song of the Slow West Village at the Sea End of the

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Belle and Sebastien

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Song of the Raspberry The Look of Sea Boat Refugee Silence p4 p5 p29 p8

Family Friendly Documentaries Made in Shetland Classic Films Short Films Guest Films New Drama Look North Participate

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Shorts for Wee Ones

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Raspberry Dreams of a Boat Refugee Life p5 p29 p25

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Internet Cat Film Dev Under Milk Screen Video Festival in Shetland Wood Academy

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Dreams of a Village at the Belle and Life End of the Sebastien

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Lord of the Alive Inside Screenplay Raspberry Rings Quiz Boat Refugee

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Village at the Slow West Raspberry End of the Boat Refugee World p28 p27 p29 17:30

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Home Made Bear Island An Adventure Slow West 4 Minute in Space and Wonders p10 p28 Time p22 p27 14:30

Bridging the Fiddlesticks Film Poems Le Week-End Bear Island Gap and Portraits

p30 p4 p10 p21 p28 Internet Cat Song of the The Falling Jaws Video Festival Sea

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Lord of the Home Made Flankers & Tell Wiz Rings 5 to 20 The Alpha

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Shooting The Past p9 p20

Young Film Under Milk Silent Running Slow West Quiz Wood

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Guest Films

Pulp

A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets UK 2014 Cert 12A 120 min inc Q&A Dir Florian Habicht Cast Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle SUN 30 AUG 19:15 Screen 1

£9/7

Following a disastrous farewell show in their hometown of Sheffield in 1988, PULP moved to London in search of success. They found fame on the world stage in the 1990s with anthems including ‘Common People’, ‘Disco 2000’ and 'Babies'. In 2012 they returned to Sheffield for their last UK concert: what could possibly go wrong?

Giving a career-best performance exclusive to the film, the band members share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality - and car maintenance. Unveiling the deep affection that the inhabitants of Sheffield have for PULP, and the formative effect the town has had on the band’s music (and frontman Jarvis Cocker’s lyrics in particular) this is a music-film like no other – by turns funny, moving, life-affirming and (occasionally) bewildering.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with band member Candida Doyle.

Candida Doyle Candida Doyle, whose family hails from Shetland, is a keyboard player and vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984. Other artistic members of her family include her actress mother, Sandra Voe, and two musician brothers, including Magnus, who is also in the band. Her grandfather owned a fishing factory in Shetland. Candida has lived in many places: Belfast (where she was born), Manchester, Sheffield from the age of ten (and where Pulp formed) and London.

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Guest Films

Shooting The Past UK 1999 Cert 15 215 min inc a short break Dir Stephen Poliakoff Cast Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Liam Cunningham, Billie Whitelaw SUN 6 SEPT 15:00 Screen 2

An absolute treat - all three episodes of Stephen Poliakoff's extraordinary play for television about a US property developer who realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection. He soon discovers that the archive employees will resort to anything to thwart him. Lindsay Duncan is mesmerising as the curator of the archive, striving to demonstrate the power and the value of the photographic image to a businessman who represents a very different set of values.

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Lindsay Duncan

UK/France 2013 Cert 15 125 min inc Q&A Dir Roger Michell Cast Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum SAT 5 SEPT 14:00 Screen 1

£10/8

In this bittersweet film, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a long-married couple Meg and Nick. They revisit Paris for a long weekend for the first time since their honeymoon, in hopes of either reviving their relationship or possibly ending it. When they run into their insufferably successful old friend Morgan, an American academic superstar with a fancy Parisian address (played with pure delight by Jeff Goldblum) their squabbles rise to a whole new level.

There will be a Q&A with Lindsay Duncan after the screening.

Lindsay Duncan’s most recent work in theatre includes Claire in A Delicate Balance (Broadway), Elizabeth for The Royal Ballet, Hayfever in the West End, That Face and Private Lives at The Royal Court and West End (for which she won Olivier, Tony, Variety Club, Drama Desk and Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress). Her TV credits include Close To The Enemy, Sherlock, You, Me & Them, The Honourable Woman, Wallander, Lawless, White Heat, Richard II, Merlin, Marple, Margot, Doctor Who, Lost in Austen, Longford, Spooks, Poirot, Perfect Strangers, Oliver Twist, Shooting the Past, and Jake’s Progress Her films include Alice Through The Looking Glass, Birdman, Le Weekend, About Time, Last Passenger, Alice in Wonderland, Afterlife, Under the Tuscan Sun, Mansfield Park, An Ideal Husband, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prick Up Your Ears, Samson and Delilah and Loose Connections.

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Guest Films

Mark Gatiss

An Adventure in Space and Time UK 2013 Cert PG 120 min inc Q&A (155 with additional screening) Writer Mark Gatiss Dir Terry McDonough Cast David Bradley, Jessica Raine, Roger May, Brian Cox FRI 4 SEPT 20:00 Screen 1

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A special one-off drama that travels back to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling.

Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer Mark Gatiss and a late night screening of The Tractate Middoth, which was directed

by Mark for television.

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Mark Gatiss is an actor, screenwriter and director. He is a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen alongside Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and co-writer Jeremy Dyson, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock (which he co-created along with Steven Moffat). Other television work includes Nighty Night, Jekyll, The Wind in the Willows and Game of Thrones.

He made a three-part documentary series for the BBC on The History of Horror and a documentary about the acclaimed writer of the supernatural, M.R.James. Most recently he appeared as Stephen Gardiner in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Mark has worked extensively in radio, television and theatre, as writer, actor and editor, and Screenplay is delighted to showcase two of the best of his creations for television at the festival.

The Tractate Middoth UK 2013 Cert PG 35 min Dir Mark Gatiss Cast John Castle, Louise Jamieson, Eleanor Bron

The chilling story of Dr Rant, whose wicked streak continues from beyond the grave.

Based on a ghost story by MR James.

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Guest Films

The Falling

Carol Morley

UK 2014 Cert 15 130 min inc Q&A Producer Cairo Cannon Dir Carol Morley Cast Maxine Peak, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh SAT 5 SEPT 19:30 Screen 1

£10/8

Curator's choice! Mark Kermode named this as one of his Films of the Week on his BBC blog, and it was equally well received by other respected critics, with The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw giving it five stars.

It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved. "...beguiling and disturbing, a beautifully made and very subtle affair that combines melodrama, rites of passage and supernatural elements in an utterly intriguing way." Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent There will be a Q&A with the director and producer after the screening.

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Carol Morley made the BAFTA nominated, Grierson award winning documentary The Alcohol Years, a film that masqueraded as autobiography but became as much about the people in it as Morley herself. Her critically acclaimed hybrid feature Dreams of a Life, about thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent, who lay dead in her flat unnoticed for nearly three years was released in the UK, USA and Australia in 2012. Her most recent film The Falling, set in a 1969 English girls’ school and starring Maisie Williams, Maxine Peake, and Greta Scacchi, was released in Spring 2015 in the UK to critical acclaim. She is currently developing her new film project with the BFI and BBC Films and her semi autobiographical novel 7 Miles Out is being published by Blink in September.

Cairo Cannon Cairo Cannon runs Cannon and Morley Productions (CAMP) with writer/director Carol Morley. She has produced Carol Morley’s The Falling with Luc Roeg, Dreams of a Life with James Mitchell, Edge and the award winning The Alcohol Years along with numerous short films.

Dreams of a Life UK 2011 Cert 12A 95 min Producer Cairo Cannon Dir Carol Morley Cast Zawe Ashton, Alix Luka-Cain MON 31 AUG 20:00 Screen 2 £7/5 WED 2 SEPT 15:30 Screen 2 £5.50/4.50 THU 3 SEPT 14:00 Screen 1 £5.50/4.50

Would anyone miss you? Nobody noticed when Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003.

Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by the Christmas presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on.

Newspaper reports offered few details of her life not even a photograph.

Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce's life, Dreams of a Life is an imaginative, powerful, multilayered quest.

It is a film about urban lives, contemporary life, and how, like Joyce, we are all different things to different people. It is about how little we may ever know each other, but nevertheless, how much we can love.

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New Drama

Slow West

Under Milk Wood

UK 2015 Cert 15 84 min

UK 2015 Cert 15 88 min

Dir John Maclean Cast Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn

Dir Kevin Allen Cast Rhys Ifans, Charlotte Church, Steffan Rhodri

FRI 28 AUG 20:30 Screen 2 TUE 1 SEPT 14:00 Screen 2 FRI 4 SEPT 14:30 Screen 1 FRI 4 SEPT 20:30 Screen 2 SUN 6 SEPT 20:00 Screen 2

WED 2 SEPT 20:00 Screen 1 SUN 6 SEPT 17:00 Screen 1

£9/7 £5.50/4.50 £5.50/4.50 £9/7 £8/6

Directorial feature film debut for Scottish film maker John Maclean, Slow West premiered at the 2015 Sundance Festival where it was awarded the Sundance Institute's World Jury Prize for drama. Described by the Daily Telegraph as 'the perfect Western', it is the tale of a young Scottish man who travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide. "...John Maclean, the former keyboard player with The Beta Band [is] ... one of the most exciting young British filmmakers working today....Maclean’s film swaps between tones with consummate ease, and does it quickly enough to keep us on our toes: it’s one of the many reasons Slow West feels like the real deal, rather than film-school homage."

Robbie Collins, Daily Telegraph

£8/6 £8/6

Under Milk Wood as you have never seen it before. Barnstorming and raunchy, ushered in by Verdi and a Welsh male voice choir, this is an utterly beautiful vision of Dylan Thomas' magical prose poetry. Starring Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church, the film is elegantly directed by Kevin Allen, who directed Ifans on the 1997 Welsh cult film, Twin Town. This lush, enthralling production beautifully compliments the lyricism of Thomas’ masterpiece with its bold, dreamlike imagery. Erotic, surreal and hugely cinematic. Thanks to distributors Metrodome, this is a special opportunity to see the film before it goes on general release later this year.

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Look North

Village at the End of the World UK 2012 82 min Cert 12A Subtitles

SUN 30 AUG 19:30 Screen 2 TUE 1 SEPT 15:15 Screen 1 THU 3 SEPT 14:30 Screen 2 FRI 4 SEPT 13:00 Screen 2

£6/4

£8/6 £5.50/4.50 £5.50/4.50 £5.50/4.50

Documentary. Lars is the only teenager in a community of hunters who doesn't want to hunt. Niaqornat in North West Greenland has a population of only 59, and with no local industry people are being forced to leave to find jobs in the nearest town. Whilst the community fights to re-open the fish-factory, Lars begins to plan his escape. Niaqornat, like many communities on the edge, is under pressure. The ice is melting and the government no longer wants to subsidise the supply ship that brings the food that can’t be hunted locally. Ultimately it is a film that reflects the dilemmas of many small communities all over the world (including our own); this one just happens to be in one of the remotest spots on earth.

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Bear Island Norway 2014 Suitable 12+ 78 min Subtitles

Dir Sarah Gavron Cast The people of Niaqornat, Greenland FRI 28 AUG 19:30 Fair Isle Hall * *Tickets available at the door

(Bjørnøya)

Dir Inge Wegge and Edda Grjotheim Cast Håkon Wegge, Inge Wegge and Markus Wegge SAT 29 AUG 14:30 Screen 2 SUN 30 AUG 21:30 Screen 2 FRI 4 SEPT 18:00 Screen 2 SAT 5 SEPT 14:30 Screen 2

£7/5 £8/6 £8/6 £7/5

A documentary about three brothers who finally realise their long-held ambition of travelling to the uninhabited Bear Island in the Svalbard archipelago to surf in the freezing waters of the Barents Sea. For the weeks that they are there the island becomes their playground, not only for surfing but for snowboarding, skiing, paragliding and abseiling, interspersed with soul-searching campfire discussions - they also carry out a Redd-Up wherever they go on the island. With extraordinary go-pro filming and the stunning scenery of Bear Island, this exhilarating film sparkles with the joy of being alive, and of following your dreams wherever they may take you.

(Hallonbåtsflyktingen)

Raspberry Boat Refugee Finland 2014 Suitable 12+ 94 min Subtitles Director Leif Lindblom Cast Jonas Karlsson, Josephine Bornebusch, Frida Hallgren SAT 29 AUG 20:30 Screen 1 £9/7 MON 31 AUG 14:30 Screen 1 £5.50/4.50 TUE 1 SEPT 19:30 Screen 2 £8/6 WED 2 SEPT 14:30 Screen 1 £5.50/4.50 THU 3 SEPT 20:00 Screen 2 £8/6 FRI 4 SEPT 15:30 Screen 2 £5.50/4.50

Mikko Virtanen is nationally conflicted. He feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees the Swedish social democracy as heaven. Happiness is to exchange Finnish

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silence, knife fights and vodka with health insurance, Volvo and ABBA. Upon meeting the Swedish suicidal psychologist Mikael Anderson, he eyes an opportunity for an identity switch. He becomes saddled, however, with a senile mother, innumerable cultural traps, and an angry, beautiful sister who awakes more than brotherly feelings in Mikko. For those of us who have struggled with our own national identities this past few years, this film should definitely resonate.

Participate Frame by Frame The Craft of Editing with Mark Jenkins Lecture 90 min inc Q&A. SAT 29 AUG 17:00 Screen 2

£5

Ever wondered how directors choose what to show us from the hours of footage that they take? Film editor Mark Jenkins will take you through the main aspects of the craft of film editing - the importance of emotion, story, rhythm and structure, why and when to ‘cut’ and the technical aspects of the job. Mark will use the film Jaws to illustrate the classic three act structure - a film that will be screened at the festival on 31 August and 5 September.

Mark is a film maker, editor and Film Representative for Orkney Arts Forum, and Chair & Programmer of West Side Cinema in Stromness.

Film Development in Shetland

Bridging the Gap

a conversation with Graeme Howell

Open to film-makers at any level 135 min SAT 5 SEPT 10:00 Screen 2

All welcome 60 min WED 2 SEPT 18:30 Screen 2

Free

As part of an ongoing series of conversations about the work of Shetland Arts Development Agency we would like to invite you to discuss what the future development priorities for film in Shetland should be with Shetland Arts' General Manager, Graeme Howell.

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Documentary Workshop

Free

The Scottish Documentary Institute is hosting a workshop to help film-makers prepare for submissions to Bridging the Gap – Scotland’s flagship short documentary film scheme for new talent. Every year, the initiative provides training and mentorship as well as an £8k budget to get your film made. The workshop will explain the aims of the scheme, will provide tips on how to improve your chances of being selected and will offer you a chance to pitch your short documentary idea informally and receive feedback.

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Start Getting Animated Workshop leader: Elizabeth Hobbs Animation Workshop Suitable for all 150 min MON 31 AUG 18:30 Auditorium

ÂŁ10

A workshop for absolute beginners or those who already have an interest in animation. You'll start with little loops of drawn animation using the zoetrope, and move on to flip books in which each person works on a sequence of 25 - 50 images of their own. Elizabeth will film each page or frame under her rostrum camera so that it can be screened. There will be an opportunity to see your animation on the big screen during the Home Made event later in the week.

Screenplay Quiz

Young Film Quiz

Suitable 14+ 180 min

Suitable 12 - 16 120 min

THU 3 SEPT 19:30 Auditorium* * The ticket price is for a table of up to six people

ÂŁ8

Mareel's monthly film quiz gets the special Screenplay treatment with Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams in the quizmasters' seats, ably supported by your faithful quizmaster team. Amongst various fun and fiendish rounds will be, by popular demand, the return of the Film Quiz Kazoo Orchestra....prepare to be swept away on an ocean of musical rapture. We're hoping to see all our regular teams plus some new contenders. But book your table ticket quickly, as this will be a guaranteed sellout. Teams of no more than six, bring your cinema know-how and your creativity!

SUN 6 SEPT 15:30 Auditorium

Free

Mareel's monthly film quiz, adapted for young people aged between 12 - 16. The usual rules apply - teams of no more than six to a table, book your table in advance and NO cheating! Take our advice and make sure your team includes a wide range of interests and obsessions, if you want to be in with a chance of winning any of the crazy and utterly desirable prizes. This event was huge fun last year - why not drum up a team from your school, youth club or neighbours?

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“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this”.

Martin Scorsese

Federico Fellini

“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

Kathryn Bigelow

“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”

Jean-Luc Goddard

“If my film makes one more person miserable, I’ve done my job.”

Woody Allen

“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.”

James Cameron

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