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Standard Life Audience Award Results
Serenity stays on top for another day... and the same three films have stayed strong throughout. With only a few days remaining, the race is heating up! Here are the results for Wednesday, 24th...
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The Meaning of 4
There is nothing quite like 4. Ilya Khrzhanovsky's debut feature is one of the most original pieces of filmmaking to grace the screen in recent memory. From the dramatic opening ("It hits you on the h...
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The Boys of Baraka: A Chance for a New Life?
Downtown Baltimore: a disastrous mix of drugs, crime and poverty. From this troubled area, several 'at risk' youth are selected for the Baraka School in Kenya, an institution dedicated to instilling t...
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The Holyrood Files Uncovered
Extremely controversial and highly contentious doesn't even come close to describing the debate surrounding Holyrood, the new Scottish Parliament. Distilled from his four-part BBC television series T...
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The Art of Collaboration: In Conversation with David Mackenzie and Giles Nuttgens
The relationship between the director and the director of photography is clearly one of crucial importance-- one has a vision, the other works to capture that vision on camera. When the relationship ...
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Standard Life Audience Award Results
Serenity holds first place for the second day in a row. Check back tomorrow to see if Joss Whedon’s sci-fi thriller continues to top the list. Here are the results for Tuesday, 23rd August. &n...
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Rag Tale
Rag Tale is a scathing look at the cutthroat world of tabloid journalism. Over the course of a week at the lowbrow paper The Rag, we watch Eddy (Rupert Graves), the paper's increasingly harassed edito...
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Standard Life Audience Award Results
The same films have topped the list for an amazing three days in a row. Want to make your vote count? Go see a Gala or British Gala, and then check back here to see if your pick has made the top three...
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Mirrorball's Birthday Party
It was a legendary night packed with phat, funky beats, and three floors of delirious dancing. Mirrorball parties always rock, and this being the 10th anniversary celebration, was clearly no exceptio...
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The President's Last Bang
A brilliantly executed South Korean political satire... met with fierce opposition by right wing politicians in its home country. Political films that provoke court cases are almost always very good, ...
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Standard Life Audience Award Results
The results for Saturday, 20th, August reveal that the same three films are still neck and neck (and neck) 1. Tsotsi 2. Mirrormask 3. Land of the Dead Check back here tomorrow to see if Tsotsi is ...
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School's Out: Film School Event
Is film school an essential component of a filmmaking career? Or just a waste of time and money? Filmmaking is a craft that can be taught in the classroom or learned on the job. But which avenue prov...
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'Frankie' Reveals the Price of Beauty
An honest look at the world of modelling, through the eyes of a former model. “We need to transform her completely.” She’s got marks under her eyes.” “No, no, the hands d...
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Standard Life Audience Award Results
Even as you read this, the diligent people of the awards team are counting up the latest votes for the Standard Life Audience Award. The public— all you film fans out there— are the filmma...
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Politics and Zombies
Horror maestro George A. Romero at EIFF. It’s a little known fact: George A. Romero accidentally reinvented zombies. The legendary horror director of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn ...
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Mad Hot Ballroom
The next 'Spellbound'... ordinary children turn wunderkind. An acutely observed documentary, Mad Hot Ballroom follows two groups of New York school children, one from a more privileged area of Tribecc...
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Gunner Palace: "Some War Stories Will Never Make the Nightly News"
One Iraqi palace, complete with swimming pool, putting green and fishing pond. 400 American soldiers who call it home. One filmmaker who captures it all on tape. Gunner Palace is a gritty, realistic a...
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Standard Life Audience Award Results
For 18th August 1. Tsotsi 2. Saraband 3. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School Sponsored by Standard Life, the winner is chosen by audience votes from the Gala and British G...
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One Long Winter Without Fire (Tout Un Hiver Sans Feu)
An intimate and subtle portrayal of a relationship, framed against the backdrop of the Swiss Jura mountains. Jean and Laure are haunted by the tragic loss of their daughter in a terrible barn fire, th...
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Opening Night Party- It is a Festival After All
Once the red carpet was rolled up, and the Opening Night film had screened, all thoughts turned to the more... celebratory element of the festival: the Opening Night Party. The Edinburgh Corn Exchange...