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This fast-paced, full-day training seminar full of tips, tricks, and techniques for getting the most out of Apple Final Cut Studio. Whether you are a seasoned FCP user or new to the game, you’ll learn many important skills for boosting your productivity. Presented by world-renowned expert and author Larry Jordan whose lively presentations promise to keep the creative sparks flying this is an event you can’t afford to miss.
This semimar will take place in Edinburgh in August. Follow the link for full details of the event and funding options. http://www.powerupevents.co.uk

CBBC Me and My Movie is back for more film-making fun for children aged 6-14.
They’ve got some brilliant free events happening this summer with 2 days scheduled for the end of July in Glasgow. Kids will have the chance to work with professional film-makers and actors to create their own film in one a day.

Sign up by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/meandmymovie and clicking on Get Involved. The closing date for applications is 5th July.

As part of the Scottish Locations Network, Glasgow Film Office will be hosting a small networking event with Scottish Screen called ‘Filming In Scotland’ at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

We will be in the delegate centre cafe bar on Tuesday 23rd June 2009 from 6:30pm so if you are registered delegate of the festival, you are more than welcome to join us!

Set against an emotional backdrop of friendship, ambition, sex and filing, Personal Affairs, which started last night at 9.00pm, is a fun new offbeat five-part drama for BBC Three following the fortunes of four fabulous personal assistants in the City.
Bringing together many of the elements which make up everyday office life, Personal Affairs takes a sexy peek at office life through the characters of Lucy, Midge, Sid, Nicole plus Grace – the seemingly perfect, but utterly mysterious, girl at the centre of it all.
The project is an exciting multiplatform offering for BBC Three with the office fun continuing online on the Personal Affairs website. As well as all the series information on the characters to be found at Hartmann Payne, there’s a chance to share a secret or two by posting your confessions online.
Created by Gabbie Asher, Personal Affairs is a 2AM TV production for BBC Scotland and shot in and around Glasgow last year.

Join Autonomi for the UK premiere of their feature documentary KURDi (18) in the Glasgow Film Theatre on June 16th @ 6.30pm when the film opens the Refugee Week Scotland’s 1st Film Festival. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Peri Ibrahim & Doug Aubrey.

Glasgow Film Office supported this project in the early stages and we are delighted to see it premiering at the Refugee Week Scotland Film Festival

Tickets are available online from www.gft.org.uk

After years in the planning, Film City Glasgow is ready to officially launch.

With a combined investment of £3.5m from Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow City Council and the European Regional Development Fund, Film City Glasgow boasts the country’s first Dolby theatre, a new filming studio, rehearsal space, sound and picture editing suites.

The 65,000 sq ft site has already attracted a host of top industry names, has 21 permanent tenants and its feature film and production spend has already exceeded £30m. As such, it is a key part of Glasgow new digital media quarter, with its closest neighbours BBC Scotland and Scottish Television.
Inspired by a trip in 2000 to Filmbyen, a media hub in a decommissioned army barracks on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Gillian Berrie of Sigma Films decided she wanted to recreate this in Glasgow.
“It had a real creative buzz to it,” she recalled. “I thought it was wonderful and felt we should have this in Glasgow, where the independent film community was very fragmented and people were working from home or in rented offices all over the city. I felt Scotland would benefit from having a central space that would engender cross-fertilisation of ideas and talent. I wanted to get everyone under one roof and get some corridor culture going”

Glasgow Film Office has supported the project from the outset and we are delighted that it has finally come to fruition.. even if it did take nine years!

BBC Director-General Mark Thompson yesterday reported a rise in network production from Scotland as it was announced that a Scottish season is to run on BBC Four and that three network comedies, Life Of Riley, The Old Guys and Rab C Nesbitt, have each been commissioned for a new series.

Alan Cumming, Peter Capaldi, Rory Bremner, Andrew Marr, Kirsty Wark, A.L. Kennedy and Charles Kennedy are all set to take part in a special Scottish season on BBC Four.

The month-long season, due to transmit in the autumn, will include a broad sweep of programming celebrating and dissecting aspects of Scottish culture, art, film-making, heritage, landscape and psyche.

Meanwhile it was confirmed that the BBC One sitcoms Life Of Riley, starring Caroline Quentin and Neil Dudgeon, and The Old Guys starring Roger Lloyd Pack, Clive Swift, Jane Asher and Katherine Parkinson, will be returning to BBC Scotland’s studios in Pacific Quay, Glasgow. Rab C Nesbitt, played by Gregor Fisher, has also been commissioned for another run on BBC Two and all three series go into production in Glasgow later this year.
The Director-General reported network production growth in Scotland from 3.3% in 2007 to 3.7% in 2008 and forecast a further rise to between 5% and 6% by the end of this calendar year. The projected increase indicates the target, of delivering network production equivalent to Scotland’s proportion of the UK population by 2016, is on track.

Richard Jobson’s new feature film New Town Killers will he hitting the cinemas this Friday - 12th June. Although the movie shot in Edinburgh last year, Glasgow Film Office supported the project through our old production support fund, which ensured that Glasgow facilities and services were employed on the project.

The film follows two young private bankers who have the world at their feet, who get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Kelly, a parentless teenager who lives with his sister in a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. You can view the trailer on the films page of our website.

Sian Reeves, Alex Kingston, Christine Bottomley and Vinette Robinson star as four ex-cons trying to go straight in BBC One’s sparklingly modern fish-out-of-water comedy-drama about losing millions, falling in love in unlikely places and chasing dreams. Hope Springs is set against the stunning backdrop of gorgeous Scottish scenery, and is made by Shed Productions – the company behind hit TV series including Waterloo Road, Bad Girls and Footballers’ Wives.

Fun, lively and entertaining, Hope Springs is an escapist eight-part drama for BBC One which filmed in Scotland on location in Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway with some location days in Glasgow and interior scenes shot at BBC Scotland’s newly-developed drama studios in Dumbarton.

Hope Springs will be on your screens on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday 7th June.

Glasgow Film Office has just completed a raft of updates on our site including new feature reports from the recent Cannes Film Festival and the BROADCAST Factual Forum which took place in back March. We’ve also added the New Town Killers trailer to our video wall, which will be out in cinemas on Friday 12th June 2009.
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