Filmmaker Interview #51 – Mark J Blackman

20130615-113735.jpgMark J Blackman makes films that I like. Dark drama. It’s a cliched genre, that’s hard to get right without people calling it miserablism. Luckily Mark’s films are neither cliched nor miserable (well not always miserable), they are intriguing insights into real life, taken from a point of view that not everyone is comfortable with. As a director he is bold and calculated, and it won’t be long before we see a feature from this man.

Check out the films below and read what Mark has to say. He lives and breathes cinema (as we all should do) and make sure to check out his website for more info. Read more of this post

Films Screened in June 2013

Poster for The Tropic of Capricorn

Poster for The Tropic of Capricorn

Another packed house at the Banshee this month. Thank you to everyone who came along. It was particularly nice to see so many new faces as well as new regulars who have continued to come along the past few months and all the old faces too – you guys rock! Read more of this post

Short Film #61 – Domestic Wrestling (2013) Neil Rolland

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Podcast #6 – Grant McPhee

wsc-podcast-logo1Neil interviews Edinburgh based filmmaker Grant McPhee who has worked across various roles in the camera and DIT department on films and TV series such as World War Z, The Angel’s Share, Citadel, Shell, Cloud Atlas, Case Histories and Sunshine on Leith, as well as having just directed his debut feature film.

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Trailer #1 – To Here Knows When – Feature Film

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Short Film #60 – Thrown (2011) Ryd Cook

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June Screening 2013

WSC June

June is ‘film month’ in Edinburgh and we are delighted to be a part of it.

This month’s screening is a belter, filled with a diverse range of short films; everything from first-time filmmakers to VFX spectaculars, experimental drama to time-lapse photography.

Write Shoot Cut is a part of Screen Education Edinburgh, and as such we are taking an opportunity this month to showcase a film made by young first time filmmakers. Louis Clark‘s The Man With No Name was made through a project we did called Xpress Yourself and is one of 9 short films made by young people aged 12-19 from across Edinburgh. We are releasing all 9 films online, one a day, from Monday 10th June in the lead up to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. You can catch them all at the Screen Education Edinburgh website.

Following this we have Matt Cameron‘s VFX drama Falling Out, Catriona Ruth Paterson‘s Weird Science-esque Girl TM, the BAFTA Scotland Award Winning short film RED from filmmaker Simone Smith, Screen Academy Scotland MA short film The Sun Does Not Exist from Adria Reina and finally, the World Première of the time-lapse landscape beauty that is The Tropic of Capricorn from German based filmmaker and photographer Greg Kiss (who we are also delighted to say is travelling from Munich to attend, along with the composer, Perth-based Philip Curran).

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