Edinburgh International Film Festival

ICYMI: Last week we announced #edfilmfest's 2019 submission dates - your chance to screen at our next Festival, 19 - 30 June 2019.
2018's Short Film & McLaren Award winners both came through our submission process - this year it could be you!

ICYMI: WE'RE HIRING! #edfilmfest is looking for a new Submissions Coordinator to work with us October 2018 - May 2019 to help process & handle the 1000s of submissions we receive each year!
⏱️DEADLINE: Mon 24 Sep

WE'RE HIRING! #edfilmfest is looking for a Programe Planning Manager to work with us from January until August 2019, a key role in ensuring Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 runs smoothly!
DEADLINE: 8 October 2018

UK-based screenwriters: the deadline for Edinburgh International Film Festival Ideas Lab is THIS FRIDAY!
Benefit from an award of £1000 and access to scientific research to help develop ideas & projects: supported by Wellcome Trust, in partnership with Beltane Public Engagement Network.
DEADLINE: Friday 14 September

Next year's Edinburgh International Film Festival submission dates have been announced - your chance to screen at our 2019 Festival, which takes place 19 - 30 June.
2018's Short Film & McLaren Award winners both came through our submission process - this year it could be you!

"We've selected films for young people. And wild people."
If you're aged 15-19 with a passion for film, why not become a #YoungProgrammer, and select films for Edinburgh International Film Festival like Oskar and Calum? Come along & find out more at our information sessions, 4.30pm on Mon 10 & 17 September at @Filmhouse! #YoYP2018
👉 filmhousecinema.com/learning/young-progra mmers

WE'RE HIRING! Edinburgh International Film Festival is looking for a new Submissions Coordinator to work with us October 2018-May 2019 to help process and handle the 1000s of submissions we receive each year!
DEADLINE: Mon 24 Sep

On This Day in 1947 Edinburgh International Film Festival was born!
71 years ago, the world's longest continually-running film festival was opened by John Grierson & Forsyth Hardy, and the first screening was Humphrey Jennings' coal mining documentary Cumberland Story at Edinburgh Playhouse! 🎂🎉
Explore the history of the EIFF 👇

Big congratulations to Ella Hunt, star of #edfilmfest 2018 UK Premiere Anna and the Apocalypse🎄🎅🧟‍♀️💃, on her Screen International FrightFest Rising Star 2018 Award! 👻👆⭐🥇🏆👏👏🙏

In 2018, we invited 10 student critics from across Scotland, the UK and Poland to Edinburgh International Film Festival. They were given full access to a range of screenings, receptions and events and received mentoring from professional film journalists including Amber Wilkinson, Simran Hans and Rhianna Dhillon - and now their reviews are up!
Read what they made of Dead In A Week, Piano to Zanskar, My Friend the Polish Girl, We The Animals, Steel Country Movie and more here 👇

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Tonight's 40 years of Filmhouse screening is Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves, which, before arriving at Filmhouse later that year, screened as the closing film at #edfilmfest in 1984 at Playhouse Edinburgh!
🎟️👉 www.filmhousecinema.com/showing/company-w olves

"Inspire the next generation of film lovers, film critics & filmmakers"
If you're aged 15-19 with a passion for film, why not become an Edinburgh International Film Festival #YoungProgrammer? Come along & find out more at our information sessions, 4.30pm on Monday 10 & 17 September at Filmhouse! #YoYP2018
👉 filmhousecinema.com/learning/young-progra mmers

Happy 60th birthday to Madonna, an artist who's always been 🔥🔥 - so much so that when #edfilmfest held the UK Premiere of Desperately Seeking Susan in 1985, the print caught fire on the last reel and no one saw the ending! #MadonnaAt60

ICYMI: On Friday Scottish Film Talent Network - SFTN announced 6 fims commissioned for New Talent Scottish Shorts 2018 - congratulations to all, including Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab alumni Douglas Cox, James J Heath, Dave Gillies & Russell Davidson! 🎉🙏📽️

National Museums Scotland's Rip It Up exhibition, a history of Scottish pop from Lonnie Donegan and Lulu to Young Fathers and Mogwai, is on now - and Travis, subjects of #edfilmfest's 2018 Audience Award winner Almost Fashionable - A Film About Travis (directed by the band's Fran Healy), are pretty well represented!

🎂🎉 Happy Birthday to the wonderful actor/director/writer Greta Gerwig, who we were delighted to welcome to #edfilmfest back in 2013 for the Premiere of Frances Ha, which she starred & co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. Happy Birthday Greta!

Happy Birthday to Kevin Smith, a visitor to #edfilmfest in 2006 and 2016! His epic Q&A sessions here have already become the stuff of legend, and we caught him in 2016 taking a pic of his own star outisde Filmhouse on Lothian Road.
See you in 2026 Kevin?

We're delighted to be collaborating with Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival & Edinburgh Festival Fringe for Power, Gender & The Arts at The Hub - Edinburgh's Festival Centre on Friday 10 August, aiming to identify blockages to gender equality in the arts & build a manifesto for change, chaired by The Women's Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer.

As part of Scotland's Year of Young People 2018 and The Young & the Wild at Edinburgh International Film Festival, we invited ten Student Critics to our 2018 Festival.
Our critics attended press screenings, wrote reviews and received daily mentor sessions from Amber Wilkinson (Eye For Film, The Times and The Sunday Times), Jonathan Romney (Sight & Sound | The International Film Magazine, National Film and Television School), Rhianna Dhillon (BBC Radio 2, BFI) & Simran Hans (The Guardian, Little White Lies, BuzzFeed UK). Read our wonderful Student Critics' reviews below! 👇

yeap

The film “Puzzle “ was excellent. Nice to see the star there as well. Great experience.

Obey is an amazing film, you fell in love with the lead character, never mind what he did you could only love and care for Leon. Marcus is an amazing actor. Sophie played a fantastic villan, well for me she was,maybe for you she won't be. Watch and decide.

It was such a nice couple of days in Edinburgh! Great festival, great organization and people of course! Thank you!

yeap

The film “Puzzle “ was excellent. Nice to see the star there as well. Great experience.

Obey is an amazing film, you fell in love with the lead character, never mind what he did you could only love and care for Leon. Marcus is an amazing actor. Sophie played a fantastic villan, well for me she was,maybe for you she won't be. Watch and decide.

It was such a nice couple of days in Edinburgh! Great festival, great organization and people of course! Thank you!

yeap

The film “Puzzle “ was excellent. Nice to see the star there as well. Great experience.

Obey is an amazing film, you fell in love with the lead character, never mind what he did you could only love and care for Leon. Marcus is an amazing actor. Sophie played a fantastic villan, well for me she was,maybe for you she won't be. Watch and decide.

It was such a nice couple of days in Edinburgh! Great festival, great organization and people of course! Thank you!

yeap

The film “Puzzle “ was excellent. Nice to see the star there as well. Great experience.

Obey is an amazing film, you fell in love with the lead character, never mind what he did you could only love and care for Leon. Marcus is an amazing actor. Sophie played a fantastic villan, well for me she was,maybe for you she won't be. Watch and decide.

It was such a nice couple of days in Edinburgh! Great festival, great organization and people of course! Thank you!