Sea Change: Powering Women in Film

Public Film Programme

Funded by Regional Screen Scotland, Local Film Festival Challenge Fund. Thanks to Tiree Community Development Trust, InspirAlba, Into Film and Screen Tiree.

Weekend pass £40

The Adventures of Prince Achmed will take place at An Talla. All other screenings take place at Hynish.

Saturday 3rd March 2018

FAMILY FRIENDLY

CAILLEACH

11.15am – 11.30am

Morag, 86, shares her unique love of life out on the edge, on Scotland's Western Isles. This film has been selected especially for the festival by one of our young film programmers.

https://vimeo.com/97435479

FAMILY FRIENDLY

National Library of Scotland archive film programme

11.30am – 12.30pm

Curated and presented by Ruth Washbrook, Moving Image and Sound Collections Manager, National Library of Scotland. This film screening will feature extracts from films relating to women's roles and empowerment from the Moving Image Archive.

https://www.nls.uk/collections/moving-image-archive

Women Over Fifty Film Festival (advisory 15)

Best of the Fest

1.30pm – 3.15pm

Introduced by the festival director Nuala O’Sullivan

Women Over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF), established in 2015, celebrates older women in front of and behind the camera. Nuala will introduce a programme of the best of this years fest.

FAMILY FRIENDLY

Make More Noise!

Suffragettes in Silent Film (PG)

4.30pm – 6pm

Introduction from Dr John Holliday

Dr John Holliday will give a short introduction on Lady Victoria Campbell and her sister Lady Frances Balfour who was a suffragette. 2018 marks 100 years since Parliament passed a law which allowed the first women, to vote after campaigning by the suffragette movement amongst others. This collection from the BFI of archive films celebrates pioneering women and contains actual footage of the suffragettes in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUjuUrLuv7k

THE GLEANERS AND I (U)

8pm – 9.30pm

Documentary

Introduction to the artist Agnes Varda by Rona Murray

"The only female director of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda has been called both the movement’s mother and its grandmother.’ In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted The Gleaners and I the eighth best documentary film of all time.

Varda, herself, remarked at the film’s success, "I've never in my entire career felt that people have loved a film of mine as much as this one.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8nHJTb_LY

Sunday 4th March 2018

FAMILY SCREENING

Wadjda (PG)

11am – 12.45pm

Thanks to support from Into Film

This sweetly uplifting film, the first ever by a female Saudi Arabian director, is about an independent-minded ten-year-old named Wadjda, who won't be pushed around by adults and their ridiculous rules ‘You'd need a heart of stone not to be won over by Wadjda’ Xan Brooks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3koigluYOH0

FAMILY FRIENDLY

CAILLEACH

1.15pm – 1.30pm

Another opportunity to see this short documentary selected especially for the festival by one of our young film programmers.

FAMILY FRIENDLY

Leeds Animation Workshop

1.30pm – 2.30pm

Introduced by one of L.A.W’s founding members Terry Wragg

This year sees the 40th anniversary of Leeds Animation Workshop. Their film Give Us A Smile gave the inspiration for this weekend as unfortunately it still has relevance. We will be screening the following of their films: Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics, Through The Glass Ceiling, Working with Care, No Offence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIcWzLQW004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOPTF897fgk

Family Screening:

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (PG)

4.30pm – 6pm

With live accompaniment & a short introduction to the work of Lotte Reiniger by Rona Murray

The Adventures of Prince Achmed is an animated fairytale film based on tales from The Arabian Nights. It is the oldest surviving animated feature film and still stands as one of the great classics of animation.

“A joy to behold. Beautiful and innovative - age only adds to its brilliance and charm.” Empire

“Lotte Reiniger's brilliant Adventures of Prince Achmed is a true animation gem. Historically it is an important work in the animation canon -- and within the global film community. Moreover, when coupled with musician Chris Davies's new score, Reiniger's work leaps anachronistically to present day and back again. It's as if you're watching the film as it should be viewed: In the 1920's. His accompaniment is a work of art in itself. I recommend it wholeheartedly.” Mark Shapiro, Studio Laika

https://vimeo.com/190875544

Female Figures (18+)

8pm – 9.30pm

Curated and introduced by Abigail Addision director of Animate Projects

This programme of shorts illustrates the problematic depiction of women as passive objects of desire, and the rising tide of empowered female perspectives, as demonstrated by the remarkable female animators included in this programme.

https://vimeo.com/182994219

https://vimeo.com/162436391

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