Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival ( EIFF ) is a film festival held annually in Edinburgh, for two weeks films with a complementary framework program are shown on the in June. It was launched in 1947 and is the oldest continuously held film festival in the world. The EIFF is focused on film premiers of British and international films and also displays the work of filmmakers.
Formation and bandwidth
The first Edinburgh International Film Festival showed documentaries and was organized by the Edinburgh Film Guild. It took place in 1947 simultaneously with the Edinburgh International Festival ( EIF) instead, which takes place every year in August. At that time the most important annual film festivals were the International Film Festival of Cannes and the International Film Festival of Venice. In the following years, the program was expanded to feature films and experimental work. Today shows the EIFF feature-length films and documentaries as well as short films, cartoons and music videos. Since 2008 the festival will take place in June and not in August.
A jury awards the Michael Powell Award for best new British feature film. The public can vote for the Standard Life Audience Award and a jury awards the Skillset New Directors Award. There are also some prizes that will be awarded short films. In British films, only those are shown, the premiere of which will take place at the Edinburgh International Festival and film. In addition, premieres of European and other international films are shown.
The artistic director of the festival was from September 2006 to 2010 Hannah McGill, who was previously a film critic and theater columnist for the Glasgow newspaper The Herald. Your predecessor from 2002 to 2006, the film critic Shane Danielsen.
In the past, Sean Connery, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle and Seamus McGarvey were patrons of the festival.
In December 2009, Hannah McGill received the viewed New Talent Award Talkback Thames at the Women in Film and Television Awards. After Hannah McGill fired the artistic director of the festival, a new format for the festival was introduced: There are no artistic director since then more, but a series of guest curators, under the direction of film producer James Mullighan.
Venues
The main venues of the festival is the Edinburgh Film House, which was once the partner organization of the EIFF, the Cameo, Cineworld Fountain Park, Edinburgh Festival Theatre and the Dominion Cinema. Some events were held in recent years at the Sheraton Hotel, the Traverse Theatre, The Caves and various other venues. In Glasgow, the Glasgow Film Theatre, and Renfrew St Cineworld were also venues. But since 2005, the festival has hosted no more film screenings in Glasgow.
There are proposals to build a new movie house in Edinburgh after a design by architect Richard Murphy. This would Sean Connery Filmhouse hot. It would be near the existing Filmhouse and would be the future home of the festival with its larger capacity.
Movie category and series of events
- Gala - New international, full-length feature film productions with a well-known actor or director
- British Gala - New British, evening-length feature films with a well-known British actor or director
- Rosebud - evening -filling feature film productions that originated outside the UK and are the first or second work of a director.
- Directors' Showcase - Movies Here an experienced director will be placed at the center.
- Night Moves - horror and action films - either independent films or productions from countries whose films are rarely shown worldwide
- Document - Documentary ( short or full-length )
- Retrospective - Movies of a major director, who many people may not yet be seen on the big screen.
- Black Box - Abstract or artistic films
- Mirror Ball - music videos and documentaries that have to do with music.
- In person - live interviews on the podium with eminent personalities of the film industry
- Under The Radar - films that take a risk ( introduced in 2008 in response to the participation of John Waters at the Festival).