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GUESTS 2015 Barbara Rafferty Ian Stephen Karen Krizanovich Perhaps best known for her role of Ellla Cotter in Rab C Nesbit. Barbara is Ian Stephen was born in Stornoway in 1955, and still lives there. His poetry and Karen has been a friend and supporter of the Festival for the last few years. a consumate actress on television/film and theatre. She started her career as short stories have been published internationally since 1979. His first poetry She is a writer, journalist, researcher and broadcaster, voice-over artist, and Woman feeding baby in a graveyard in the cult film The Wicker Man. Since collection was Malin Hebrides Minches, a collaboration with the photographer at one point, she was even an agony aunt in a popular magazine. She is the then she has been on television almost constantly—in sitcoms and dramas— and film maker Sam Maynard, and his next will be Maritime, selected poems honorary secretary of The London Film Critic Circle. Karen will introduce Life including Hamish MacBeth, Taggart and very recently on forty episodes of with images by Christine Morrison. His debut novel A Book of Death and Fish Itself, the moving documentary about the Chicago film critic Roger Ebert.✶ Bafta-winning-series Katie Morag, playing Grandma Mainland. This year she was a book of the year in the Guardian (Robert Macfarlane) and The Herald played a stormer alongside Grigor Fisher in the National Theatre of Scotland (Candia McWilliams). ✶ production Yer Granny. ✶ Iain Smith Bob Last Christopher Hird Iain Smith comes from Glasgow and graduated from the London Film School Bob first worked in the music business establishing the label Fast Product. This Christopher Hird established Dartmouth Films in 2008 to pioneer new ways of in 1971. He worked in London for several years before returning to Scotland brought Human League and the Mekons to prominence in the post-punk era funding, making and distributing independent documentaries and supporting to make My Childhood, the first of the award winning trilogy by the late Bill of the late seventies. He went on to manage abc and Heaven 17 through the the work of new and emerging filmmakers. His previous career had included Douglas. ¶He has since gone on to produce, line produce or executive eighties. ¶He has worked as a music supervisor on numerous films including spells as a stockbroker, journalist (including as editor of the Sunday Times produce some of the greatest British films: Chariots Of Fire, Local Hero, The Orlando, Little Voice and Chocolat. He produced the key documentary series Insight team) and television reporter and producer. Dartmouth’s films have Killing Fields, The Mission. His recent work includes Cold Mountain, Children The Century of Cinema including A Personal Journey Through American Cin- been consistently selected for international film festivals: The End of the Line of Men, The A Team. He has brought his latest film to the Festival—Mad Max: ema with Martin Scorsese. ¶He produced Terence Davies’ House of Mirth (2009); The Flaw (2011) and Fire in The Blood (2013). For example, they were Fury Road, accompanied by head of visual effects Andrew Jackson. ¶Iain’s starring Gillian Anderson. Recently he was executive producer on Davies’ all shown at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Still The Enemy Within (shown bluff, avuncular style, his humour and knowledge, are perfectly suited to the Sunset Song, to be released in December. He was also producer of the Oscar at Cromarty Film Club), which told the story of the 1984/5 miners’ strike, was Cromarty Film Festival. ✶ nominated animation The Illusionist, which won the European Film Award for in the top twenty grossing u.k. cinema documentaries. ✶ Best Animation in 2010. ✶ Photograph by John McNaught. Design by Jules Akel Welcome to our ninth Film with his suitcase of Archive start venue event minutes guest Festival—the festival that defies films; Matt Lloyd, who stupidly friday 4th december 18.30 Lighthouse Opening event: Programme of Shorts by Matt Lloyd, with a dram 35 definition but refuses to die. agreed to programme another Free round the fire. ¶ Last year, while clearing up, great menu of shorts along with 19.30 Victoria Hall Some Like it Hot (u) Dir. Billy Wilder (1959) 120 (+30 chat) Barbara Rafferty there were five smug, slightly documentary filmmakerDuncan £7 adult/£3 under 16 Fifty-six years old and this film is still a comedy masterpiece. A hungover Committee members, Cowles; Andy Mackinnon from wonderful caper to open the festival. “Nobody’s perfect” is the last line, but Wilder, Lemmon, Curtis and Monroe come pretty close. congratulating themselves that they had already North Uist, who has been making lovely films over 22.30 Victoria Hall Mad Max: Fury Road (15) Dir. George Miller (2015) 120 (+30 chat) Iain Smith booked four great guests for next year. Nothing to do there for the last twenty years; vfx director Andrew £7 adult/£3 under 16 At seventy years old, director George Miller returns to give a but a few wee meetings, lots of wine and running the Jackson, who is joining Ian Smith to talk about master-class in how to make an action film. With rich visuals and a preference for practical effects, Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the Film Society. ¶ Three weeks ago, we had one guest, their work on MadMax Fury Road; Christo Hird best movies of 2015. Join Producer Iain Smith at this great spectacle. all the others were “shooting”, “rehearsing”, “having from Dartmouth Films, who came up in April to saturday 5th december a deserved break”. Huh, have they no thought for us show us Still The Enemy Within; and has mercifully 10.30 Victoria Hall Song of the Sea (pg) Dir. Tomm Moore (2014) 93 poor voluntary committee members creating the best returned; producer and music supervisor Bob £5 adult/£3 under 16 The film blends Celtic legends, bravura design and animation, and intelligent storytelling that understands but never patronises young film festival in the U.K. However, thanks to favours, Last. ¶ Not forgetting our most loyal and beautiful viewers, to create an exquisite and rewarding work. The film weaves friends and fortune we have succeeded. ¶ Our guests guest, the town of Cromarty. ¶ Just remember together Irish folklore and Celtic magic with a stylised graphic design include: a great guest from the Highlands—storyteller, watching films in a large room with people that that is staggeringly beautiful. sailor and novelist Ian Stephen; the queen of all laugh and cry together is the best thing. ¶ Thanks 11.00 Ben’s Hoos Laurel and Hardy films (u) A drop-in screening in Ben’s sitting 120 Free room: 35, Bank Street. Scottish actresses—Barbara Rafferty, our favourite for financial support from Regional Film Scotland 11.30 Hugh Miller Institute International Shorts 90 (+15 chat) Matt Lloyd kind supporters—Iain Smith and Karen Krizanovich; and lots of support from Ginnie Atkinson. £3 Glasgow Short Film Festival director Matt Lloyd returns with a our perennials—Lawrence ”Couthy” Sutcliffe with his Also big thanks to our patient and efficient selection of his favourite recent shorts from around the world. An crap Scottish films; the lovely, patient Allan Mackay adminstrator Nick Fearne. ¶ See you next year ✶ informal screening and discussion examining the endlessly inventive ways in which short films tell stories. 13.00 Victoria Hall Death of a Gentleman 95 (+15 chat) Christopher Hird £7 adult/£3 under 16 Death Of A Gentleman is not a nostalgic look back at a sport that professionals played against amateurs while stopping for tea. It’s a modern morality tale about a future where sport and money collide. VENUES If you care about something that’s in danger, then don’t pass the N 1 THE HUB ( OLD BREWERY, CAFÉ, BAR) buck, do something about it, before it’s too late. 13.00 The Old Brewery Animated Shorts 60 Will Anderson 2 VICTORIA HALL £3 Will Anderson is an award-winning director and writer and animator 3 HUGH MILLER INSTITUTE from the Black Isle. Will specialises in design and character animation 4 THE STABLES for film and television. He will introduce a selection of his work and 5 SUTOR CREEK ( RESTAURANT) talk about being an animator. 6 CROMARTY LIGHTHOUSE 13.30 Hugh Miller Institute Scottish Screen Archive Films 1 60 (+15 chat) Allan Mackay £3 Each year we welcome Allan Mackay, the Gaelic Film archivist from Scottish Screen Archives to bring us a programme of quirky, EAT & DRINK interesting and often unseen Scottish films. A CROMARTY ARMS PUB 15.00 Sutor Creek Floodtide Dir. Frederick Wilson (1949) 86 Lawrence Sutcliffe B THE ROYAL HOTEL £5 adult/£3 under 16 Romantic drama. David Shields (Gordon Jackson) defies his father and leaves the family farm to work in the Clyde shipyards. His flair C CROMARTY STORES for design sees him advance rapidly, which causes friction with his D CROMARTY BAKERY fellow workers but brings him into contact with the boss’s daughter E COUPER’S CREEK (Rona Anderson, the future Mrs Jackson). F THE CHEESE HOUSE 15.00 Hugh Miller Institute Shorts Masterclass: Duncan Cowles: Family Album 90 (including chat) Duncan Cowles G THE EMPORIUM £3 Duncan Cowles is an award-winning Edinburgh-based documentary & Matt Lloyd 6 filmmaker, who has turned his camera on various members of his THE LINKS family to hilarious and moving effect. In this master-class event he will show some of his work and talk about the dilemmas and revelations G E O R G E S T B when using your nearest and dearest as raw material. D U K E S T 5 17.00 The Stables Films from the West 120 (including chat) BRAEHEAD £5 adult/£3 under 16 Filmaker Andy Mackinnon has been living on North Uist for fifteen Andy Mackinnon B A R K LY S T B A N K S T S H O R E S T years.