Sea Change festival on Tiree celebrates 100 years of 16mm film

Scotland’s only annual film festival dedicated to female filmmaking talent, the Sea Change Film Festival on the Isle of Tiree, has announced its line-up for this year's event from September 22-24.

 

Programme highlights include a celebration of 100 years of 16mm film, sneak previews of Typist Artist Pirate King and Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, a focus on landscape, ecology and place, contemporary Irish Celtic cinema, recent hit films directed by women including Women Talking and Cocaine Bear, plus sea swims, beach exploration walks, workshops and family activities.

 

Guests attending the festival in person include renowned director Carol Morley and 16mm filmmakers Mairead McLean and Julia Parks, with other filmmakers joining in from across the world for live digital Q&As.

 

"attachment_988279" "aligncenter" "300"] Scotland's only annual festival dedicated to celebrating female filmmaking talent will run from September 22 to 24 and features a packed weekend of films, workshops, family activities and special guests.

 

Highlights from this year’s festival programme include a special opening screening of Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, Nina Menkes’ acclaimed examination of Hollywood’s male gaze in the era of #MeToo movement.

 

There will be a series of screenings and workshops celebrating 100 years of 16mm film - the medium that put cameras into the hands of home movie makers and artists, changing who could make films and how films were made.

 

Julia Parks will present Seaweed, exploring the folklore, ecology, and history of seaweed in north Scotland, artist Mairéad McClean will introduce her short 16mm films (including 2 x shot on Uist) and lead a masterclass on 16mm filmmaking, French filmmaker Carmen Leroi will discuss her new 16mm drama No Regrets live via Zoom artists Joanna Byrne and Lucy Bergman present hands-on workshops on working with 16mm film for both adults and families and Cardiff Animation Festival present a family-friendly programme of work by female animators on 16mm.

 

 

You can also see artist Lisa Selby’s deeply personal story of a life touched by addiction Blue Bag Life, directed by Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, plus films reflecting on the landscape and ecologies of islands. One such film is Geographies of Solitude, following naturalist Zoe Lucas who has spent 40 years living on the remote Sable Island (some 4000km across the Atlantic from Tiree) and The Oil Machine, focusing on Scotland’s long economic and emotional entanglement with the oil industry.

 

 

 

 

Finally there will be a closing night screening of French drama More Than Ever starring Vicky Krieps, with a live digital Q&A with director Emily Atef and an afterparty.

 

Sea Change Festival is produced by Screen Argyll with funding from Argyll and Bute and (CHArts) Culture Heritage and Arts in Argyll and support from Tyree Gin and the Hynish Centre.