European premiere set for Edinburgh film festival.
Documentary The Closer We Get is to receive its European Premiere at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 (June 17-28) on 18 June.
Directed by Karen Guthrie and produced by Guthrie and Nina Pope, it recently won Best International Feature Documentary Award at HotDocs in Toronto.
The Closer We Get is an autobiographical film told by director Guthrie who returns home to looks after her mother Ann after a stroke and is faced with the father who has been separated from Ann for years.
The film was developed with support from the Scottish Documentary Institute, Royal College of Art, Creative England and Sources2 and produced with support by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Splice and 333 Indiegogo funders.
The Closer We Get will be released in UK cinemas in September.
Documentary The Closer We Get is to receive its European Premiere at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 (June 17-28) on 18 June.
Directed by Karen Guthrie and produced by Guthrie and Nina Pope, it recently won Best International Feature Documentary Award at HotDocs in Toronto.
The Closer We Get is an autobiographical film told by director Guthrie who returns home to looks after her mother Ann after a stroke and is faced with the father who has been separated from Ann for years.
The film was developed with support from the Scottish Documentary Institute, Royal College of Art, Creative England and Sources2 and produced with support by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Splice and 333 Indiegogo funders.
The Closer We Get will be released in UK cinemas in September.
- 5/21/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
As London's Floating Cinema sets sail once again, its project director talks public art and making creative partnerships work
Hi Emma, can you tell us a bit more about Up Projects and your role there?
I am the founding director of Up Projects, which began in 2002, and I'm responsible for the creative programme as well as the organisation's direction and development. Up Projects is a non-profit public art commissioning organisation based in Shoreditch – we aim to provide opportunities for artists to develop high quality work for new, public contexts, ranging from parks and green spaces, urban public areas, and more recently the canal network.
What's the motivation behind your most recent project, the Floating Cinema?
The Floating Cinema is the most recent iteration of our Portavilion programme, which sees artists and/or architects create temporary architectural structures for public spaces – the aim is that these spaces become a platform for...
Hi Emma, can you tell us a bit more about Up Projects and your role there?
I am the founding director of Up Projects, which began in 2002, and I'm responsible for the creative programme as well as the organisation's direction and development. Up Projects is a non-profit public art commissioning organisation based in Shoreditch – we aim to provide opportunities for artists to develop high quality work for new, public contexts, ranging from parks and green spaces, urban public areas, and more recently the canal network.
What's the motivation behind your most recent project, the Floating Cinema?
The Floating Cinema is the most recent iteration of our Portavilion programme, which sees artists and/or architects create temporary architectural structures for public spaces – the aim is that these spaces become a platform for...
- 8/13/2013
- by Matthew Caines
- The Guardian - Film News
New documentary Jaywick Escapes casts light on a part of Essex that has changed from a holiday retreat to a rundown refuge for troubled Londoners
If people know the name Jaywick Sands for anything, it's the often-cited statistic that the poorest ward in Britain isn't in Liverpool or Glasgow – it's in the south-east of England, a couple of miles from Clacton-on-Sea.
Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope's new documentary, Jaywick Escapes, paints a picture of a town still seen as a refuge for troubled Londoners but now seemingly abandoned by the government, the council – everyone except for its few thousand residents.
The landscape is unlike anywhere else in the country. Initially it was part of the plotlands craze of the early 20th century, which saw city dwellers buying strips of cheap agricultural land for a country retreat. Jaywick was colonised by workers from the Ford plant in Dagenham who built...
If people know the name Jaywick Sands for anything, it's the often-cited statistic that the poorest ward in Britain isn't in Liverpool or Glasgow – it's in the south-east of England, a couple of miles from Clacton-on-Sea.
Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope's new documentary, Jaywick Escapes, paints a picture of a town still seen as a refuge for troubled Londoners but now seemingly abandoned by the government, the council – everyone except for its few thousand residents.
The landscape is unlike anywhere else in the country. Initially it was part of the plotlands craze of the early 20th century, which saw city dwellers buying strips of cheap agricultural land for a country retreat. Jaywick was colonised by workers from the Ford plant in Dagenham who built...
- 7/2/2012
- by Bob Stanley
- The Guardian - Film News
Ahead of the 2012 Olympics, a dilapidated canal boat has been transformed into 12-seat theatre that navigates east London's waterways. Sarfraz Manzoor takes a cinematic tour ...
It is possibly the only cinema in the UK equipped with life jackets and buoyancy aids – and it is in the vanguard of the cultural events that will surround the Olympics. Two years ago the Cole was a tattered narrowboat with no roof, plumbing or electrics: now it has been transformed into a 12-seat floating cinema that for the next two months will be navigating the waterways of east London.
The Floating Cinema is funded by the Arts Council and commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and it is the brainchild of curator Emma Underhill. "The waterways are the arteries that run through the Olympic parks," she said, "so when we were invited to put forward a proposal for a project that would engage the...
It is possibly the only cinema in the UK equipped with life jackets and buoyancy aids – and it is in the vanguard of the cultural events that will surround the Olympics. Two years ago the Cole was a tattered narrowboat with no roof, plumbing or electrics: now it has been transformed into a 12-seat floating cinema that for the next two months will be navigating the waterways of east London.
The Floating Cinema is funded by the Arts Council and commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and it is the brainchild of curator Emma Underhill. "The waterways are the arteries that run through the Olympic parks," she said, "so when we were invited to put forward a proposal for a project that would engage the...
- 7/29/2011
- by Sarfraz Manzoor
- The Guardian - Film News
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