Trailblazers
Congratulations to all twelve of our 2010 Trailblazers, the talented individuals who have been selected from EIFF’s programme of feature films and shorts to represent the best and brightest in breakthrough UK talent.
Established in 2007, Trailblazers is the EIFF’s flagship talent showcase - a key element in our promotion of new talent and our service to the UK industry, on which we are pleased to collaborate with Skillset.
The chosen filmmakers will be presented with every opportunity to forward their promising careers and diverse modes of working via the Festival’s structures and services. After the Festival, we stay in touch and track their progress – which is how we know about people like Eduard Grau, a 2007 Trailblazer who recently shot Tom Ford’s hit A Single Man after his cinematography showreel was picked up by one of the film’s producers in Edinburgh. Former Trailblazers with new feature films in the programme this year include Nichola Burley, star of SoulBoy; Bryan Larkin, actor in The Red Machine; and Lol Crawley, cinematographer on Donkeys.
We are looking forward to this year’s crop flourishing and returning with new work in the near future! In the meantime we look forward to welcoming them and helping them towards a fruitful and fun Festival experience.
Hannah McGill
Artistic Director, EIFF
The film industry is notoriously hard to break into and forge a sustainable career within, and one of Skillset’s aims is to make sure that it is the most talented filmmakers, not just the best connected, who rise to the top. So we are delighted to work with EIFF and be a partner on Trailblazers. This is a fantastic initiative that provides some of the most exciting new UK filmmakers with a leg-up, promoting them and their work to industry.
Our industry is driven by talent and discovering the ‘next big thing’. Trailblazers provides a focus point for industry looking for new talent, and the festival delivers a number of events in order to showcase these individuals and facilitate introductions.
This year’s Trailblazers once again represent a broad range of fresh approaches and distinctive styles. I urge you to take the time to see their films, and discover the new generation of bright young things.
Neil Peplow
Head of Film, Skillset
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