Film professionals share expert knowledge with Highland school pupils in Ross-shire ahead of Gaelic movie entry deadline
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Professionals in the film industry have been helping Highland students in creating their Gaelic short films.
With less than a month to go until the entry deadline for the Gaelic short–film contest, FilmG, a talented roster from across the Scottish media sector has been running workshops across the country to support aspiring filmmakers to create their own Gaelic short films.
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Since this year’s competition kicked off in September, workshops have been taking place in Inverness, Lewis, Gairloch, Ullapool, Oban, Dingwall, Dunoon, Aberdeen and Skye, with dozens more planned across Scotland in the coming month.
During the two–day workshops, tutors have been teaching students about all the intricacies of good storytelling and technical work, as well as the importance of effective editing to bring the young creatives’ stories to life.
FilmG aims to discover, support and develop the future Gaelic stars of the media industry in Scotland, by utilising the existing talent in the film industry – both in front of and behind the camera – to share their knowledge to the next generation.
This year’s workshops kicked off at Gairloch High School, where students created two films, one depicting how their village has changed over the years and the other a drama about premonitions of the future, with support from BBC ALBA filmmaker Dòl Eòin MacKinnon and FilmG’s Megan Dale.
In Ullapool, BBC ALBA filmmaker Dòl Eòin MacKinnon held workshops for two different films with pupils from Ullapool Primary School.
Millburn Academy pupils from Inverness, worked with Bannan actor Alistair MacKay to deliver two films, across four days of tutoring.
Pupils from Dingwall Primary School worked with FilmG’s Megan Dale on a film about a boy who joins a school with no Gaelic and then magically develops the ability to speak the language after growing a plant using magic seeds.
