THE Scottish director and screen writer May Miles Thomas has been short listed for a prestigious British Independent Film Award (BIFA), as well as the thriller Calibre.
She is short listed in the Discovery Award with her film Voyageuse, which stars Sian Phillips, a film which is a reconstruction of a woman's life, that of Erica Thomas, from the letters and objects she left behind.
Also short listed is the Glasgow-filmed "micro-budget dark comedy" Super November, which is the debut feature from writer / star Josie Long and Clydebank director Douglas King.
Matt Palmer, the director of Scottish movie Calibre, is also short listed, for Calibre in the debut director award category, as well as in the debut screenwriter category, which also features Karen Gillan, for The Party's Just Beginning.
Nae Pasaran, the documentary about Scottish workers who defied General Pinochet has been short listed in the Best Documentary category.
The Favourite leads nominations in the annual awards, a film about the 18th century court of Queen Anne.
It has 13 nominations in total, American Animals follows with 11 and in total 37 British feature films were nominated.
The winners will be announced on 2 December.
www.bifa.film
MUSICIANS, artists, writers and festivals have been given a total of £919,218 in funding from Creative Scotland, in the arts agency's latest round of open project funding.
The arts funder has given grants of between £1000 and £100,000 to 44 projects in September.
The award winning classical guitarist Sean Shibe and the composer Lliam Paterson have received funding to commission and record new work for choir and guitar in collaboration with the Choir of King’s College London.
The viola player Katherine Wren, violinist Anne Bünemann, cellist Peter Hunt and Orkney composer Gemma McGregor have received funding towards Nordic Viola, which is a series of new commissions from Scottish and international musicians, inspired by the Orkney, Shetland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.
Lau, Glasgow based guitarist Gareth Dickson and alt folk singer-songwriter Beerjacket, Peter Kelly, have been awarded funding to enable the creation and recording of new albums.
Funding received by visual artist Steven Fraser will be used for the creation a new video documentary installation What It Feels Like which will explore and profile mental health issues.
The irector and choreographer Kally Lloyd-Jones, of Company Chordelia, has received funding towards the creation of new work The Chosen, exploring the subject of death.
She said: “I am so delighted to be starting work on a new piece and to have the opportunity to explore this work before embarking on a final production process. The subject of death is personal and particular but of course also universal, so I want to create a piece, along with the dancers, that will communicate something of our experiences."
There is also funding for Glasgow based author Oliver Langmead, to undertake a writer’s residency at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne.
Funding has been given to musician Dean Owens to undertake his first official tour of the USA.
The tour is a result of his 2017 performances at Showcase Scotland’s The Visit and his showcase at Americanafest in Nashville, also supported by Creative Scotland.
In other grants, Floris Books has been given funding towards its 2019 publication programme, which will include the Kelpies imprint of Scottish books for children from ages one to 16.
www.creativescotland.com/funding
THE Four Pillars, a new multi-media and musical work from the Scottish musician Mike Vass is to be performed in Edinburgh this month.
Commissioned by the Scots Fiddle Festival, is it based on the four major tune types of the Scottish fiddle tradition - the slow air, the march, the strathspey and the reel.
The performance features an ensemble of four solo fiddle players (Mike Vass, Patsy Reid, Lauren MacColl and Jenna Reid) each performing one movement, accompanied by string quartet, piano and tuned percussion with a film element as well as sampled spoken word excerpts.
The concert is on 16 November at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh.
The Scots Fiddle Festival was launched in 1996 with the aim to promote and sustain traditional fiddle music.
This year sees the festival moving to a new home at The Pleasance Theatre.
www.mikevass.com
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