The UK’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), which is running August 12-20, has unveiled four new film curating development programmes alongside six projects selected for its Talent Lab Connects.
Talent Lab Connects which launched in 2019 is open to EIFF Talent Lab alumni and their collaborators to develop a feature film or serial drama project. The event runs from April to December.
The six projects are: Robin Haig’s Drover’s Road, Kevin Pickering’s Before I Wake, Tessa Joffe’s Punzel, Jack King’s Sunburn, Lynsey Murdoch’s The Computer and Alex Browning’s ULA (working title).
The filmmaking teams will receive professional script editing, mentoring and guidance from story editor Kate Leys and industry mentors to achieve a series of specific goals for their projects.
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The festival has also launched a series of four programmes to help nurture the film curatorial voices of the future. They are called: EIFF & Curate-It Fellowship (working with training app Curate-It), EIFF Critical Writing Commission, EIFF Curatorial Mentoring Programme and EIFF Curatorial Commission.
The three candidates from EIFF Curatorial Commission will develop a film programme based on a particular theme or provocation for presentation at the festival.
Kristy Matheson, creative director of EIFF, said: “This suite of programmes acknowledges that storytelling takes infinite forms – from the production of new films to the creative interpretation of cinema for audiences.”
EIFF Talent Lab returns this year providing four days of workshops, masterclasses and one-to-one sessions bringing together 30 emerging writers, directors, directors and producers with established industry professionals.
The programmes are funded by EIFF’s Place programme, the City of Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund.
Talent Lab Connects 2022 projects:
Drover’s Road
Dir: Robin Haig (Talent Lab 2016)
Prod: Deb Charles
Scr: Morna Young
Before I Wake
DIr/scr: Kevin Pickering (Talent Lab 2018)
Prod: David Brown (Talent Lab 2017)
Punzel
Dir: Tessa Hoffe
Prod: Rajita Shah (Talent Lab 2012)
Scr: Polly Courtney
Sunburn
Dir/scr: Jack King (Talent Lab 2021)
Prod: Hollie Bryan
The Computer
Dir/scr: Lynsey Murdoch (Talent Lab 2019)
Prod: Jessie Mangum (Talent Lab 2019)
ULA (working title)
Dir: Alex Browning
Scrs: Lucy Kaya, Mandy Lee (Talent Lab 2012)
Prod: Cat Marshall
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