Illumenation 2015 – Helsinki
A mix of undergraduate, postgraduate and recent alumni Screen Academy students from ENU and ECA, together with lecturers Nigel R. Smith and Catriona MacInnes, recently returned from a week in Finland where they participated in the Illumenation 2015 Educational Film Festival with students from host institution ELO Film School at Aalto University in Helsinki, the […]
Writing for Holby City
Screen Academy Scotland MA Screenwriting graduate Chris Lindsay on his experience writing an episode for Holby City. Holby City is a 1 hour a continuing drama set in a hospital. It runs weekly, 52 weeks of the year on BBC One. The episode Chris is writing is Ep40 of series 16 and will be transmitting in […]
Filmmaking & Crofting
MA Film student Robin Haig writes about her six years in Amsterdam and her dream of combining filmmaking and crofting back home in Scotland. I have not long returned to Scotland after living in Amsterdam for six years. I moved there to broaden my horizons after working as a runner in the Scottish film industry […]
Amazing ENGAGE
Katri Vanhatalo graduate of Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier BA Photography & Film writes about attending her first ENGAGE workshop which took place Mar 30th – Apr 2nd at the National Film School at IADT in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. ENGAGE is a training and project development programme for emerging writers, writer/directors and producers designed to […]
Update from the Sahara!
Irune Gurtubai and Ben Sharrock are currently studying on the MFA Advanced Film Practice course at Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier. Irune writes from Spain where they are currently casting their final project for the MFA (WORKING TITLE: Untitled Sahara Film). Irune is producer on the film and Ben is the writer/director. They plan to shoot […]
Apr 1 – Being a DOP on Chameleon
Alkisti Terzi, MFA Advanced Film Practice – Cinematography as a collaborative process on Chameleon Chameleon is a film that evolved as it was being filmed. As a director of photography on Chameleon I had been to the location scout, discussed the script again and again, watched and read the references my director gave me, tried […]
Feb 2014 – A Berlin Engagement
ENGAGE is a training and project development programme for emerging writers, directors and producers. Held across Dublin, Edinburgh, Tallinn and Helsinki, it is designed to foster international collaborations. Mia Ylönen graduated with an MA in Screenwriting from Screen Academy Scotland in 2011 and went on to become an ENGAGE prize winner for her thriller ’Frost […]
The Legacy Project
For 6 months Clidna Soraghan worked as a Graduate Trainee at Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University. Her role as Media Promotion Coordinator at Screen Academy Scotland was devised in response to Creative Skillset’s (Screen Academy’s key external funding body) request to develop a clearer legacy of The Screen Academy’s activities and impacts. “It’s been such a privilege to work at The […]
Screen Academy Scotland at EIFF
EIFF 2013 is here and Screen Academy Scotland graduates, students and staff are out in force! See below for details of student and staff screenings & events. Screenings of Student Films Sat June 29th 12 pm We are delighted that Little Brother, a short psychological drama directed by Andrei Staruiala (MA Film), produced by Raluca […]