(in association with Scary Biscuits Promotions) Showcase season of some of the very best music talent in Scotland The Famous Spiegeltent and Scary Biscuits Promotions are delighted to announce some wonderful new additions to its music programme for its beautiful St Andrew Square Gardens hub for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sounds Of Scotland is aContinue reading “Edinburgh Fringe 2025 The Famous Spiegeltent presents: Sounds of Scotland (28 Jul – 27 Aug)”
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Edinburgh International Film Festival Announces 2025 Programme
43 new feature films, 18 feature film World Premieres including 10 World Premieres competing for The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, 6 special retrospective screenings, James Bond on the big screen and a celebration of the work of filmmaker Budd Boetticher; 6 short film programmes including The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence competition, the presentation of new short form workContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival Announces 2025 Programme”
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 to Present World Premiere of NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab Short Films
The NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab is supported by the Sean Connery Foundation Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), the National Film and Television School (NFTS), NFTS Scotland and The Sean Connery Foundation have announced that the six short films created as part of the inaugural NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab will have their World PremieresContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 to Present World Premiere of NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab Short Films”
YOUNG SCOTTISH FILMMAKER WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT 2025 INTO FILM AWARDS
A young filmmaker from Scotland has won the publicly voted Audience Award at the annual star-studded film awards ceremony organised by leading film education charity, Into Film. The prize was awarded to Edward Ryan (14) from Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway at the awards ceremony in London’s Leicester Square by actor Andy Serkis and presenter Edith Bowman. Edward won the award – votedContinue reading “YOUNG SCOTTISH FILMMAKER WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT 2025 INTO FILM AWARDS”
Children’s Theatre Company Catherine Wheels Announces New Development Fund
Scotland’s celebrated producer of work for children and young people, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, announces a new call out with Make Space, whose aim is to appeal to artists and collectives for the research and development of new ideas and new work for children, with a focus on schools. Practitioners can be from any creativeContinue reading “Children’s Theatre Company Catherine Wheels Announces New Development Fund”
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 announces Premiere of Cult Classic Remake The Toxic Avenger
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that the UK premiere of Macon Blair’s gloriously outlandish cult classic remake THE TOXIC AVENGER starring Peter Dinklage, Elijah Wood, Kevin Bacon and Julia Davis will be the closing night film of the Festival’s Midnight Madness strand. Before Deadpool and Venom, there was The Toxic Avenger, the original mutant mop-wielding heroContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 announces Premiere of Cult Classic Remake The Toxic Avenger”
Submissions Now Open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2025
Established in 2019 by the film and theatre production company Popcorn Group, Popcorn Writing Award 2025 is now open for submissions. This unique award celebrates bold, imaginative new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, offering a £6,000 prize fund that goes directly to writers recognised for their notable, groundbreaking scripts. Further to the prize fund,Continue reading “Submissions Now Open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2025”
FILMHOUSE ANNOUNCES OPENING PROGRAMMING DETAILS
From 27 June 2025, Edinburgh’s landmark cinema Filmhouse will re-open its doors with a hand-picked programme of the very best films the cinema missed out on playing during the venue’s two-and-a-half-year closure. The programme will have a strong emphasis on films that did not screen in the city because of its absence. Tickets are on sale nowContinue reading “FILMHOUSE ANNOUNCES OPENING PROGRAMMING DETAILS”
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 Announces World Premiere of Ben Wheatley’s Secret New Film Bulk to Open Festival’s Midnight Madness Strand
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has today announced the world premiere of Ben Wheatley’s ingenious new film BULK as the opening night film of the Festival’s Midnight Madness strand which runs throughout the Festival and unleashes the very best in new genre cinema from around the world. Produced by Andy Starke of Rook Films andContinue reading “Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 Announces World Premiere of Ben Wheatley’s Secret New Film Bulk to Open Festival’s Midnight Madness Strand”
A New Scottish Documentary, Love & Trouble by Amy Hardie, Screens at Cameo
Love & Trouble, the new documentary film from director Amy Hardie goes on general release throughout the UK this June following an outstanding reception to its world premiere screening at Berlin’s Dokumentale’24 festival. The film will hold its Scottish premiere at Edinburgh’s Cameo Cinema with film team guests in attendance including director Amy Hardie and stars of the documentary, Kenny and KerryContinue reading “A New Scottish Documentary, Love & Trouble by Amy Hardie, Screens at Cameo”
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