A POWERFUL short film by Daniel Gear has won the Homemade short film competition at the Screenplay film festival in Shetland. The film, an animation made on behalf of Shetland's Women's Aid, was one of 27 short films entered into the annual competition, with the winner chosen by the audience at the Mareel arts centre in Lerwick.
The Screenplay festival also included a "singalong" screening of Sunshine on Leith, with star George McKay present for the festivities, as well as new horror drama The Limehouse Golem, starring Bill Nighy, who was also a special guest, as was Edinburgh film maker Hope Dickson Leach, who presented her debut feature The Levelling at the festival.
Shetland’s annual film festival is curated by film historian Linda Ruth Williams and film critic Mark Kermode, alongside Kathy Hubbard of Shetland Arts .
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AN exhibition, Real Fake/Fake Fake, by a Scottish artist has opened at New York's Maison gallery on West 29th Street.
Michael Miller’s series of ten paintings reflects "on ‘the decline of truth', exploring aspects of deception, fakery and mendacity through the visual vocabulary of dazzle camouflage."
Miller, born in Glasgow, trained in painting and drawing in Italy, Switzerland and Mozambique.
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