Druids - Screening for Druids

The Druids: Travels in Deep England will be screening in Glastonbury on 10 December 2011 for OBOD's Midwinter Gathering. This screening will be open to members of OBOD only, so if you want to come along, please contact them via their website. The film begins at 1530 or thereabouts. Louise & Sean will introduce the film and do a Q&A afterwards.

A Boat Retold - Inverness Screenings

A Boat Retold is screening at the Highland Print Studio in Inverness as part of the highland run of the show Is a Thing Lost....? Admission is free, and the show and film run until January 28th 2012. 

Folie a Deux - Fundraising Campaign

There is now a second Sponsume campaign up and running to help raise the final £500 needed to finish the film. More info - and the chance to donate to the project - can be done by going to: http://www.sponsume.com/project/folie-deux
If funds come in - and surely £500 is raisable, even in "austerity Britain" - then the film will finally be finished before the end of the year.

Druids Screening: Alchemy Film Festival 22.10.11.

The Druids: Travels in Deep England will screen at this year's Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival in the Borders town of Hawick. The screening is on Saturday 22 October at 2 pm at the Heart of Hawick -Tower Mill. Louise Milne will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards.

The following morning, at 11am, Alchemy will be screening Tarkovsky's Mirror. This will be introduced by Sean Martin, whose book on Tarkovsky is now available in an updated edition.

More more on the Alchemy Film Festival, go here.

Druids on Facebook

The Druids: Travels in Deep England now has its own Facebook Page.

Folie à Deux | Sponsume

We now have a campaign on Sponsume to get Folie finished:

Folie à Deux | Sponsume

The amount we need has just fallen by 50%, courtesy of some unexpected funding coming in. Please help with the remaining half if you can. Thanks.

Indie Go Go Funding Campaign Now On

Please take a moment to check our our campaign on Indie Go Go to raise the small amount of money needed to complete Sean's feature film Folie a Deux:

http://www.indiegogo.com/folieadeuxmovie?a=205331&i=addr

If you are able to make a small contribution, that would be even better! Thanks in advance.

Druids screening in Boston tonight.

Northeastern University
Holmes Hall
Room 400 B
39-41 Leon St


1800 start.

Druids US Premiere Sells Out

The Druids: Travels in Deep England premiered at the Maine International Film Festival last night to a sell-out house. The film screens again tonight, and also next Tuesday at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

The Waterville Morning Sentinel also ran an article yesterday on Louise and Sean. Read it here.

 

Druids US Premiere 21 July 2011

The Druids: Travels in Deep England receives its US premiere on 21 July, when it screens as part of the 2011 Maine International Film Festival. Louise and Sean will introduce the film, and will be doing a Q&A afterwards. More information can be found at MIFF's website.

A Boat Retold- Screenings in North Uist, June 2011

A Boat Retold will be screening at Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre on North Uist on Friday, as part of the Is a thing lost? exhibition that opened in Stornoway in March. More info here.

Reissue of Andrei Tarkvosky

Sean Martin's book Andrei Tarkovsky has just been reissued by Kamera Books. This is a larger format paperback than the original edition, and comes with colour illustrations and a revised and updated bibliography, filmography and notes. Copies can be obtained by clicking the image below.

A short article, "Why Tarkovsky Matters" is also published this month in the Curzon Cinema magazine.

Druids in Maine

Louise Milne's feature-length documentary, The Druids: Travels in Deep England, will receive its North American premiere in July, when it will be screened at the 2011 Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, ME (dates TBC). The festival last year screened Lanterna Magicka, and Louise and Sean are delighted that they will have a chance to return. See you in Railroad Square!

Ishbel on Radio 4's Last Word

Ishbel MacAskill featured in last week's Last Word on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to the programme again here.

Ishbel MacAskill

All at 891 Filmhouse are greatly saddened and shocked to hear of the death of the Gaelic singer Ishbel MacAskill, who has died at her home in Inverness. Sean and Louise filmed Ishbel at a gig in Harris last summer, and she graciously agreed to some of the music recorded that night being used in A Boat Retold, which premiereed in Stornoway only last weekend. We send our condolences and symapthies to her family and friends. She will be very much missed.

A Boat Retold - Screening until 7 May

A Boat Retold will be screening at an Lanntair in Stornoway until 7th May, as part of the exhibition Is A Thing Lost... If You Know Where it is?

A Boat Retold - Premieres this Saturday

www.lanntair.com

Druids Screening

There will be a sneak preview of Louise Milne's The Druids: Travels in Deep England tonight in Edinburgh, at the School of Scottish Studies, 27 George Square at 1900. All welcome. Louise will introduce the film and answer questions afterwards. The film features Professor Ronald Hutton, sci-fi author Liz Williams, screenwriter and author Nicholas Mark Harding, amongst others.

A Boat Retold - Premiere Details

A Boat Retold will be premiered at an Lanntair in Stornoway on Saturday 26th March. More details can be found on an Lanntair's website. Louise and Sean will introduce the film.

A Boat Retold to premiere in Stornoway

 





















 A Boat Retold, the new film by Sean Martin & Louise Milne, featuring the writer Robert Macfarlane and the writer, artist and poet Ian Stephen, will receive its world premiere at An Lanntair in Stornoway on 26 March. More details to follow...