
Third Night: Scottish Cinema (16/11/2016)
First of all, a huge thanks to Simon Miller, filmmaker of Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle (2008), for providing a detailed introduction and an illuminating Q&A this evening. Simon Miller is an award-winning filmmaker, whose films have been valorized at the Celtic film festival. The evening was dedicated to Scottish Cinema, with the selection of a feature film articulated in Scottish Gaelic. Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle represents the first, and up to this point the on

Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations in D&C Film
As the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations film event was under way at The Phoenix, Exeter, I was interviewed as part of a piece in D&C Film. The article deals with the film selection process for the short films and the feature films. Click Here to read the article and the short interview
Second Night: CESN Wales (09/11/2016)
Firstly, a huge thanks to Dr. Kate Woodward, Lecturer at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, at Aberystwyth University, who provided an detailed introduction to Welsh Cinema and the feature film The Library Suicides (Euros Lyn, 2016). Once again, thank you to all who attended the evening event and for the discussions that took place after the two screenings. The evening commenced with the screening of the short film Hiraeth (Jacob Roy), which was selected
First Night: Belgium (02/11/2016)
First of all, thank you to all that attended the first night of the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations event, hosted at The Phoenix, Exeter. The event opened with introductions by the organiser, Dr. Jamie Steele, followed by a video introduction by filmmaker Jonas Bloquet regarding his film The Unexpected Taste of Apple, and the feature film, Black (El Arbi and Fallah, 2015). Beginning with Belgium, the Cinemas of Europe's Small Nations film event received 47 submissions from