Here at Regional Screen Scotland we’ve undertaken an experiment in programming for the Screen Machine, and we’d like to share the results with our audiences and the wider screen community. Between August – October this year, we brought six different foreign language films to six different locations on the Screen Machine’s tour. The initiative was […]

In August 2017 Regional Screen Scotland secured funding from the Life Changes Trust to deliver a one year pilot programme linking film with people living with dementia.

Ever thought of setting up a Film Festival in your community? Or perhaps you’re already running one, but would like to try something completely new. Help is at hand from our new Local Film Festival Challenge Fund. This small, one-off fund has been set up with funding from Screen Scotland, and is intended to complement […]

In the last of our reports from Your Festival Your Community from students of University of Edinburgh’s MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation, Melina Waeltermann stresses the importance of considering inclusivity at all levels, how funding can affect this and how local film festivals balance these concerns in their programming and delivery. First of all, I’d […]

Anni Asksainen originally hails from Finland and is in Edinburgh studying at University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Film, Exhibition and Curation. Here, she reflects on how Your Festival Your Community could be a model to apply to other European countries, as a way to share knowledge and encourage networks to emerge. In celebrating the existing […]

At our Your Festival Your Community event back in April we were delighted to have attending, students from the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Exhibition and Curation. In the first of five reports by the students reflecting on the event, Amanda Rogers considered what she learned about how local film festivals serve their audiences in […]

Cara-Lynn Bauer is a student on the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Exhibition and Curation. Here, she writes about her experience attending our Your Festival Your Community event back in April, and the strategies she learned to reach and engage a local festival audience. In addition to the group-panels I attended the workshop ‘Where are […]

Thinking about her position as an emerging film curator, Sarah van den Hoogen, a student of University of Edinburgh’s MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation, tells us what she learned at Your Festival Your Community. One of the main things I took away from Your Festival Your Community was “think global, act local”. I think that […]

On 27-28 April, we hosted Your Festival Your Community at MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling. The event brought together local film festival organisers from all over Scotland to celebrate their achievements, and learn from and connect with each other. Friday evening was a celebration event, with Blythe Duff as our special guest host for an awards […]

Popular screen and stage star Blythe Duff will join us as the host of our Celebration of Local Film Festivals at the first ever Your Festival, Your Community event at MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling on 27 April. The event will feature the YFYC Awards and will toast the achievements of festivals from the Borders to […]