A Kind of Seeing

29/07/2023

Delighted that our film Launch! On the Sea with Scotland's Lifeboats will be back on a big community cinema screen NEXT WEEK: Tuesday 1 August at 6.30pm in Portpatrick Village Hall as part of Portpatrick Lifeboat Week 2023. It's screening as a partnership between Portpatrick Local Cinema and Driftwood Cinema.

The screening is free but donations will be collected for the local Portpatrick Lifeboat and there will be members of the crew on hand for a Q&A afterwards.

If you're in the area, please do come along as well as what looks to be a brilliant line-up for the whole of RNLI Lifeboat Week in Portpatrick...

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LIFEBOAT WEEK - Tuesday 1 AUG 2023, Portpatrick Village Hall

In partnership with Driftwood Cinema & raising funds for the Portpatrick Lifeboat join us on Tursday 1 August at 6.30pm ( doors open)

“Launch! On The Sea With Scotland’s Lifeboats “

This film dives into archive film and video of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s best contemporary musicians. Directed by award-winning curator Shona Thomson, the film is created from rarely seen footage of Scotland’s communities , you might also catch a glimpse of some footage from Portpatrick.

There will also be a Q & A session after the film with some of the crew from Portpatrick Lifeboat!

The event is free but donations will be collected for the RNLI

A Kind of Seeing

17/06/2022

Finally! After 2 years working with Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Scotland, Anne Milne and Caron Hughes, we're sharing the *FILMS OF ACTION* project as part of the Folk Film Gathering. We've been making and screening films with groups who have been doing amazing things during lockdown in Whitburn, Auchinleck, Kelty, Addiewell, Dunfermline, Cardowan, Glenboig, Danderhall, Stoneyburn, High Valleyfield, and Cowdenbeath.

Join us at 7pm on Wed 29 Jun at the Scottish Storytelling Centre to watch and celebrate some of the films made by coalfield communities with us in lockdown + chat over some refreshments about what's needed now (including community cinemas!📽️)

Book here > https://bit.ly/CRTFilmsSharing
And please do share with interested folk. Thanks!

This event is being sold at full capacity without social distancing. Audiences are kindly requested to wear masks at all times, unless exempt.

15/09/2021

THE local fundraising branch of the RNLI have been invited along to the showing of a new film at Greenock's Waterfront Cinema.

05/09/2021

Great to see Jenny Sturgeon (and her trolley) today when she interviewed me for film she’s making with Sandy Butler. It’s this November she’s finally touring her brilliant album live with films I made 👀

26/08/2021

So it's taken two years but it feels so good to finally announce the first confirmed dates for the cinema tour of Launch On The Sea. Cannae wait for it to screen at such brilliant venues in collaboration with their local RNLI stations and branches. And there'll be more announced too. If you're near a screening, please do join in. Massive 💙 to those who have stuck with us on this journey.

Launch! On The Sea With Scotland’s Lifeboats is a new film that dives into archive footage of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary musicians.

20/06/2021

Very proud that Launch! has finally made it to the big screen. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to bring it home to local cinemas across Scotland 💙

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03/06/2021

We have a premiere! 📽💙

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Launch! will premiere at Mareel on Sun 20th June! 📢

Launch! features footage from both Lerwick (when Santa visited in 2019) and Aith (the 1961 naming of the lifeboat John and Frances Macfarlane), so we're thrilled to have our first public screening at Shetland's beautiful coastal cinema and arts centre.

Shetlanders: tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10am. Tickets can be booked online from Shetland Arts, in person at Mareel’s Box Office, or over the phone on 01595 745500. Capacity will be limited, so snap them up quickly. 😀

02/04/2021

So pleased to reveal the website for Launch On The Sea today! It's been quite the journey so far and we're looking forward to when Launch! can finally hit the big screen: https://launchonthesea.com/

Big thanks to all our aforementioned funders, partners, and those incredible musicians👇🏻

Plus the brilliant Sam Jones, Lifeboat Operations Manager at Tobermory RNLI Lifeboat Station, and the backroom team of Jen and Jack at Screen Argyll, our marketing maestro Neil Hepburn, demon designer Stuart Graham at Snowball, marvellous mixer David McEwan, and fantastic film grader Minttu Maari Mäntynen 💙

Launch! On The Sea With Scotland’s Lifeboats is a new film that dives into archive footage of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary musicians.

08/03/2021

Honoured to work with and be supported by the brilliant women who work in our sector - very much included is the team at Film Hub Scotland 📽💙

18/01/2021

18/11/2020

Yesss!!! Congratulations Jenny Sturgeon! 🍾🍾🍾

Congratulations 🎉
The Scottish Alternative Music Award winner for Best Acoustic 2020 sponsored by BTO Solicitors LLP is Jenny Sturgeon