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Online Film Showcase

This year, Screen Academy Scotland celebrates 20 years of educating the next generation of filmmakers, storytellers and screen professionals. Since opening in 2005, our students, graduates and staff have gone on to make award-winning work across film, television and the creative industries in Scotland and around the world.

To mark this anniversary, we are delighted to present a special 20th Anniversary Screening as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Saturday 15 August. We hope you can join us to celebrate two decades of creativity, collaboration and screen education.

Find out more about the anniversary screening at EIFF.

MFA Advanced Film Practice

Hula is a gently humorous drama about unhappy divorcee Clara. Reluctant to engage within her Highland community, she sets up her empty-nest home as a B&B. Her first guest is an artist who introduces her to change by rearranging the bedroom feng shui style. Next, a pair of elderly tourists painfully remind her of the joys of love. Finally a hillwalker, as lonely as she is but not nearly so stuck, initiates an evening of unexpected hilarity which spurs her onwards to a new, ultimately more promising phase in her life.
Programme: MFA Advanced Film Practice
Director: Robin Haig
Producer: Lindsay McGee
2016
Lying by a stream that tunnels towards the sea, away from the world’s din, Archie is interrupted again. Reluctantly he emerges from his head and is set back on his usual pattern. Then, stuck in the middle of a pointless game at the youth centre he makes a choice to deviate from the uninvited tumult. Without leaving his head, Archie puts his headphones on and dares himself to follow a fellow outsider. He finds himself in a strange place where he is forced to adjust quickly, so he absorbs himself in something that both excites and numbs his head and ends with an unexpected confrontation.
Programme: MFAAFP
Director: Catriona MacInnes
2008
Léthé is an invitation to go astray, an invitation to forget oneself, embarking with our vagrant protagonist as he searches to forget his past.
Programme: MFAAFP
Director: Alex Nevill
2013
Pablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He’s worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily, he’s had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston’s a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times.
Programme: MFAAFP
Director: Chico Pereira
2012

MA Film

The lives of three men, Daniele, Antonio and Giovanni are interwoven and all intersect with emotional results on the birthday of little Elisa.
Programme: MA Film
Director: Asiyat Gamzatova
Producer: Reece Cargan
2018
Summer 1997, in a small village in Scotland where nothing ever happens and the days all resemble themselves, a strange cosmic event comes to disrupt Julianne’s boring everyday life.
Programme: MA Film
Director: Josefa Celestin
Producer: Margarita Veberaite
2015
A short film teaser for the feature film Pikadero. Ane and Gorka travel to a sex hotel in the mountains in order to consummate their relationship. However, things are never as easy as they seem and they end up questioning the meaning of their fledgling relationship.
Programme: MA Film
Director: Ben Sharrock
Producer: Irune Gurtubai
2014
Noor, a 20 year-old girl living in the conservative city of Gaza, finds a wounded dog and without hesitation takes it in. How will her decision affect the family dynamic?
Programme: MA Film
Director: Razan Madhoon
Producer: Sean Hind
2016
Tells the story of the relationship between death row warden, Albert Gilmore, and Aleisha Edwards, a young black woman on death row, convicted for the fatal shooting of the officer who killed her husband.
Programme: MA Film
Director: Glen Whelan
Producer: Darel Kirk Lambert
2017

Kinoeyes European Masters Programme

Written, directed and produced by international students on the Kino Eyes programme while based in Edinburgh. Cinematography by our student Antonio Pozocević as part of his MFA Advanced Film Practice degree.
Programme: Kinoeyes – European Masters & MFAAFP
2023
Written, directed, produced with editing and sound by five international Kino Eyes students based in Edinburgh. Cinematography from a former Napier MA Film student. Made quickly with local actors, this was a fresh, student-led project made at the very end of their final semester.
Programme: Kinoeyes – European Masters
2023

BA (Hons) Film

Two care workers from different backgrounds face the challenges of the private British care system and rebel in a way they can afford.
Programme: BA (Hons) Film
Director: JAGODA TŁOK
Producer: Producer
2023
“Where is your skirt?” A FILM MADE BY Written/Directed by Niamh McKeown Produced by Jack Cowhig Cinematography by Leon Brehony Production Design by Caitlin Allen Edited by Yvonne Carroll Composed by Simon Toner BTS Photos by Kyle Lai AWARDS Best Short at Belfast Film Festival (2018) Winning Short at GSFF Media Schools Day (2018)
Programme: BA (Hons) Film
Director: Niamh McKeown
Producer: Jack Cowhig
2018
Two young Scottish soldiers face a difficult decision when deciding the fate of a young captured German. 4th Year BA (Hons) Film graduation film 2021
Programme: BA (Hons) Film
Director: Cameron Cobb
Producer: Producer
2021

Alumni Films

A90

A discontented waitress develops an intimate relationship with an unavailable woman in a roadside cafe. A BFI funded short film in association with Short Circuit and Screen Scotland. Starring Marli Siu, Sinead Macinnes and Jamie Robson. Written and Directed by Olivia J. Middleton Produced by Carys Evans A Finite Scotland Production
Programme: Programme
Director: Olivia J. Middleton
Producer: Carys Evans
2022