Industry
Industry Events - Sunday 22 June
Director’s Lab Session (Open):
The Nuts and Bolts of Development
10:00, Boardroom, Caledonian Hotel
The Director’s Lab is a five-day, residential development programme for six emerging UK feature film directors. The Director’s Lab is supported by the UK Film Council, Film4, 4Talent, Skillset and EIFF and is managed by Lifesize Pictures.
Throughout the programme the Director’s Lab is opening up one workshop per day to EIFF industry delegates, further details of which will be available soon, so please check back for updates.
Sign up in the Industry Office to reserve a place – space strictly limited.
Warp X: Where Next?
10:30, Lyceum Henry Irving Room
Warp X is a unique venture in the British film industry - a sustainable digital studio that is driven by creative talent and a dynamic digital business model that rewards everyone involved in the films.
The final films on the first slate are now shooting, so it's a good time for Warp X (supported by the UK Film Council, Film4, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media and Optimum Releasing) to review their progress and how they see the future shaping up. This is an opportunity for producers, writers and directors to get up close and personal with a microstudio which has two films screening in the EIFF programme, A Complete History of my Sexual Failures and Donkey Punch.
Open to all delegates with passes.
Scottish Screen presents:
Actor? Director?
11:00, Lyceum Wyndham room
Do you have ambitions to turn your acting career into a directing career? Can acting experience give you the edge as a director? Or, is there much more to directing than just performance? Come and meet actors turned directors to find the answer to these questions and more.
Let this very talented panel give an insight into how directors and actors work together and some clues as to how to get the best performance possible on screen.
Open to all delegates with passes.
Guerilla Films presents: Meet the Experts
12:00 - 15:00, Lyceum Upper Circle bar
A unique opportunity to gain in-depth, confidential advice from a panel of experts. Simply sign up in the delegate centre, including details of your project in development, to book a 20-minute slot with our panel of experts.
This year’s panel includes: Jo Nolan, Chief Executive Screen South; Maggie Ellis Head of Production, Film London; Bill Lawrence, Creative Director, Showroom Sheffield & Board Director Screen Yorkshire, David Wilkinson, CEO Guerilla Films. Between them they have the skills and experience to develop a film, finance it, distribute it, screen it in the cinema, on DVD and sell to TV, offering delegates a complete advisory service that’s hard to beat – and free!
Sign up in the Industry Office, and provide a one-page outline of your project in development, to book a 20-minute slot with our panel of experts. All submissions will be treated in strictest confidence.
Roger Deakins & Seamus McGarvey in Conversation
14:00, Cineworld 2
Lights… Camera… Learn from two legends of cinematography. Three-fifths of the 2008 Academy Award® shortlist for Best Cinematography will be represented on this stage. (McGarvey was nominated for Atonement; Deakins for both The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men.) McGarvey’s work encompasses the likes of The Hours, World Trade Centre and High Fidelity; Deakins shot The Shawshank Redemption, Kundun, The Big Lebowski and Fargo, to name but a few.
Public event with a limited ticket allocation for delegate pass holders - show your pass at the delegate ticket terminal in Filmhouse foyer from 08:30 on the day to pick up a ticket. First come, first served.
Performed Reading 2: The Darkest Hour by David Greig
14:30, Traverse 1
A first glimpse at long awaited film projects from stars of Scottish writing.
In collaboration with the Traverse Theatre, EIFF presents three film scripts currently in development. For the second of these, the Darkest Hour, David Greig presents a new original screenplay (co financed by the UK Film Council and Film 4), The Darkest Hour.
These three very different scripts demonstrate the talent and diversity of contemporary Scottish screenwriting – and our readings offer an opportunity to hear these films of the future being read by professional actors.
Public event with a ticket allocation for delegate pass holders - show your pass at the delegate ticket terminal in Filmhouse foyer from 08:30 on the day to pick up a ticket.
Brian Cox: BAFTA Interview
17:00, Cineworld 2
Scotland’s best-loved and most authoritative acting export. As if playing one of the National Theatre's most acclaimed Lears wasn’t achievement enough, Brian Cox has established a mighty presence in cinema -from originating Hannibal Lector in Michael Mann’s Manhunter, via unforgettable turns in the quirky gems Rushmore and Adaptation, to the blockbuster Bourne and X-Men franchises. He continues to take risks with small, sparky projects like The Flying Scotsman (EIFF 2006) and Red.
Public event with a limited ticket allocation for delegate pass holders - show your pass at the delegate ticket terminal in Filmhouse foyer from 08:30 on the day to pick up a ticket. First come, first served.
Scottish Screen's Special Effects Happy Hour in the Delegate Centre Café Bar
Co-sponsored by Artem
18:30 - 19:30, Delegate Centre
Come along for a drink, a chance to meet people, and an opportunity to find more and see recent projects from Artem, the special effects company based in London and Glasgow.
Open to all delegates with passes.
