23 February, 2012

Video interview: Greg Hemphill and Jimmy Chisholm make An Appointment with The Wicker Man

Written by Greg Hemphill and Donald McLeary, An Appointment with The Wicker Man is a new play set on a remote and distant Scottish island where amateur theatre company the Loch Parry Players are rehearsing a stage version of classic British horror film, The Wicker Man.
However, when their leading man goes missing in ‘mysterious circumstances’, [...]

Video interview: Adam Sinclair on working in Scotland and Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy

Starting his acting career in the Channel 4 series, Boyz Unlimited, Scottish actor Adam Sinclair then took a long-running part in Sky One’s Mile High before appearing in films such as Van Wilder 2 and now Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy.

‘We need to do the biggest, best stuff we can’: John McKay on We’ll Take Manhattan and filmmaking in Scotland

Jean Shrimpton (Karen Gillan) and David Bailey (Aneurin Barnard) (BBC/Kudos)

The director of BBC Four’s We’ll Take Manhattan discusses directing on a tight budget, his plans for a Scottish indie movie and the future of film and TV production in Scotland.

‘It’s about being as open-minded as possible’: Allan Hunter on Glasgow Film Festival 2012

Allan Hunter and Allison Gardner launching GFF 2011

Ahead of the press launch of the 2012 Glasgow Film Festival, we sat down with Festival co-director Allan Hunter to find out what’s coming to Glasgow between 16 – 26 February.

‘It’s a glimpse into a time capsule, an alien world’: Steven Severin on scoring 1932’s Vampyr

Steven Severin has written a new score for 1932's Vampyr

Following on from his 30 date Blood of a Poet UK tour in the winter of 2010, Steven Severin returns this month with a rare opportunity to hear his new score for 1932’s Vampyr.

‘He’s a man with a lot of fight and compassion’: Tony Curran on Young James Herriot

Tony Curran in Young James Herriot

Glasgow-born Tony Curran recently returned from LA to film Young James Herriot. Here he describes the turbulent backdrop to this All Creatures Great and Small prequel.

‘He could be a very good vet, he just doesn’t apply himself’: Ben Lloyd-Hughes on Young James Herriot

Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Rob McAloon (BBC/Shed Productions)

One of the trio of young actors leading the cast of BBC Scotland’s Young James Herriot, actor Ben Lloyd-Hughes takes on the role of trainee vet, Rob McAloon.

‘She just breezes through life’: Amy Manson on Young James Herriot

Young Herriot

Young James Herriot’s Amy Manson on being part of a male dominated world and what viewers can expect from the All Creatures Great and Small prequel.

‘It’s about James Herriot becoming the character everyone knows’: Iain De Caestecker on Young James Herriot

James Herriot (Iain De Caestecker) in the veterinary college (copyright BBC/Shed Productions)

We speak to the latest actor to portray Britain’s best-loved vet, James Herriot, in the BBC’s prequel to All Creatures Great and Small.

Northern Exposure: Organising Cromarty Film Festival

Dave Newman (left) interviewing Kenny Glenaan (right) about Summer

Jennie Macfie meets the organisers of “the best little film festival in the North of Scotland,” the Cromarty Film Festival.