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Catriona MacInnes' Recognition (6)

Gift from God
2017 - 2019

Description Feature film Screenplay completed. Developed at Bellrock screenwriting residency funded by Creative Scotland.
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Safe Days (working title)
2015 - 2020

Description Feature Film screenplay in development. Treatment commissioned by Scottish Film Talent Network.
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dropping Off Michael
2014 - 2015

Description Production credits: Producer

Young Michael is taken out for his last day of freedom by his Uncle Duncan. Despite the fun line-up that his uncle has laid on for him, Michael cannot forget where he's finally going that day. As events unfold, he realises what's at stake and that his Uncle is leading him down a one-way path.

Winner : Best Short Film - Glasgow Short Film Festival
Nominated: Best Short Film - Bafta Scotland Awards
Moninated: Best Writer - Bafta New Talent Awards
Research Areas Social justice
Criminology
Film and television
Festivals and Events
Families and Relationships
Research Themes Health
URL https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4357114/?ref_=nm_knf_i2

A Cuillin Rising
2011 - 2013

Description A Scottish Digital shorts commission (Digicult) supported by Creative Scotland, UK Film Council and BBC Scotland. The film was written and directed by Catriona MacInnes produced by Martyn Robertson in association with his company Urbancroft Films, and associate produced and edited by Ian Waugh. Starring in the film are emerging talents Lorne MacFadyen (Angel’s Share) and Annie MacLeod (Seachd) as well as accomplished and respected actor Robin Thomson.

“The Ghost seen by the Soul, A Cuillin Rising over the sea” (Sorley MacLean)

In a shadowy caravan on the Isle of Skye, teenage lovers, Sorley and Maggie spend time awkwardly, stalked by the haunting presence of Sorley’s father, Hector. Arrested by this and by their feelings for each other, the couple seek escape.

A Cuillin Rising is emblematic of the space between tradition and modernity, the souls of youth growing up in an old country where ghosts lie athwart with new life. Maggie and her Mum are from an old traveling community but have now settled as tenants on Hectors land. Maggie speaks freely with her Gaelic tongue and can comfort herself by humming an old tune, whilst her troubled lover Sorley fears the roots which he sees as his fathers and not his own. In their shared sorrow and solitude, rage and fear have erupted between Father and Son and after a period of withdrawal, Hector has now come to seek his son out. Sorley cannot bear this intrusion or the emotion that Maggie is now innocently compounding and absorbing. In the aftermath it is Maggie who is left alone with her soul and what it has seen.

www.acuillinrising.com
Research Areas Film and television
Festivals and Events
Families and Relationships
Mental health
Literature
Music
Research Themes Health
URL https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023357/?ref_=nm_knf_t3

I'm In Away From Here
2008 - 2008

Description
Lying by a stream that tunnels towards the sea, away from the world’s din, Archie is interrupted again. Reluctantly he emerges from his head and is set back on his usual pattern. Then, stuck in the middle of a pointless game at the youth centre he makes a choice to deviate from the uninvited tumult. Without leaving his head, Archie puts his headphones on and dares himself to follow a fellow outsider. He finds himself in a strange place where he is forced to adjust quickly, so he absorbs himself in something that both excites and numbs his head and ends with an unexpected confrontation.

Graduation film from MFA Advanced Screen Practice, Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University.
Selected for Venice International Film Festival in 2008. Nominated for Golden Lion for Best Short Film.

Competitions, Screenings & Awards:

VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2008 (in competition)

TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2008 (in competition)

GLASGOW FILM FSTIVAL, 2009

BAFTA SCOTLAND Nomination: New Talent Award for Best Fiction, 2009

NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL, 2009 – Honorable mention: Golden Opportunity Award

ARCIPELAGO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL, 2009 – Special Mention: Garry Collins for performance

STRASBOURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (in competition)

MOTHERLODGE, BROOKLYN, FALL 2009

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL, LODZ, POLAND (in competition)

THE WAY WE LIVE, MUNICH 2009 (in competition)

VENDOME FILM FESTIVAL, FRANCE 2009 (in competition)

IINTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL, DORTMUND | COLOGNE, 2010

BREST EUROPEAN FESTIVAL OF SHORT FILMS, FRANCE 2010
Affiliated Organisations Edinburgh Napier University
Research Areas Festivals and Events
Film and television
Learning disabilities
Geopolitics
Mental health
Research Themes Health
Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278233/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3