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Tartan
Shorts 2003
From
Alex Norton to Richard E Grant, Ken Stott to Edward Woodward, Siobhan
Redmond to Karen Dunbar, some of the biggest names in the acting
world have made their mark in a Tartan Short.
Continuing
the trend of merging talent with cutting edge film-makers, Tartan
Shorts 2003 lives up to its enviable reputation as a highly successful
film scheme.
The
scheme, which began in 1992, is a joint initiative between ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland
and Scottish Screen, and was designed to develop and encourage Scotland's
emergent film-makers.
Each
year three writer/director/producer teams are selected and given
the opportunity to produce a nine minute film suitable for both
cinema exhibition and television broadcast.
The
selected films are premiered at The Edinburgh Film Festival before
being broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland and then ´óÏó´«Ã½ Network. The films
are then shown at festivals around the world.
This
year's films reflect the diversity of the successful film scheme.
Set
in 1974, All Over Brazil is the story of a teenage
boy who is obsessed with his favourite glam rock band, much to his
football fanatic father's disapproval.
Starring
Iain de Caestecker (Coronation Street), Frank Gallagher (Young Person's
Guide To Becoming A Rock Star) and introducing Gemma Morrison, All
Over Brazil is family affairs at its most colourful with full glam
make-up and platform boots.
Sredni
Vashtar, a gothic fairytale about life versus death, is
the story of Conradin, a young boy who finds his world torn apart
when he is sent to live with his strict aunt. His only means to
deal with his isolated life lies hidden in a lonely shed at the
bottom of the garden in the shape of Sredni Vashtar.
Sian
Thomas (A Mind To Murder) and Fergus Nimmo (The Choir) star in this
gothic tale of family disharmony.
In
Wise Guys, schoolboys William, Michael and Bobby dream
of escaping their tedious paper route to live the life of their
wise guy American heroes. Soon they find themselves in a world where
ice cream vans are heisted and best friends shoot each other.
Starring
Lorraine McIntosh (River City) and newcomers Jamie Quinn, Jonathan
Carlin and Anthony Martin.
Becky
Lloyd, Short Film Executive, Scottish Screen, is delighted with
the success of the short film venture: "Tartan Shorts has become
one of the best known short film schemes in the world with Oscar
and Cannes Film Festival success to prove it.
"This
year's films showcase some very different approaches to the short
film genre, but they all have one thing in common – fresh,
original writing and directors who have a truly distinctive and
imaginative approach to the stories they are telling.
"I
am sure these will prove popular with the audiences and on the festival
circuit as well."
Sara
Harkins, Executive Producer, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland, echoes these sentiments,
saying: "´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland is proud to be part of Scotland's most established
short film scheme. I feel confident that the new decade of Tartan
Shorts will continue to be as successful and groundbreaking."
Previous
Tartan Shorts winners include Peter Capaldi whose film, Franz Kafka's
It's A Wonderful Life, won an Oscar and a BAFTA for Best Short
Film.
Cry
For Bobo was one of the most successful Tartan Shorts films of 2002
and has since scooped accolades including the Royal Television Society
Award for Best Regional Programme and most recently won the Prix
Du Public/Audience Award at the European Short Film Competition
as well as acclaim at Belgium's Bruxelles International Festival
of Fantasy Films and the Down Under International Film Festival
in Darwin, Australia.
Lynne
Ramsay's winning entry, Gasman, went on to win a BAFTA for Best
Short Film, a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award and the Prix du Jury
at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Lynne
has since written and directed two feature films: Ratcatcher and
Morven Caller.
Successful
actor/writer/director Peter Mullan made multi-award winning Tartan
Short, Fridge, in 1995 which went on to win awards the world over.
Peter
has since gone on to write and direct acclaimed feature films Orphans
and The Magdalene Sisters.
Press
pack
Wise
Guys
Sredni
Vashtar
All
Over Brazil
Tartan
Shorts history
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´óÏó´«Ã½'s digital services are now available on ,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
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offers the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s eight television channels, interactive services
from ´óÏó´«Ã½i, as well as 11 national ´óÏó´«Ã½ radio networks.
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