Filming set to begin on adaptation of Eric Lomax's bestselling account of his experiences as a Pow on the Burma railway
On two occasions in recent months, Colin Firth has met for lunch with an elderly couple from Berwick-upon-Tweed. The pair had a story to tell, one that Firth has struggled to comprehend.
In Edinburgh today the Oscar-winner spoke of his admiration for Eric Lomax, a survivor of the Burma railway, who he will play in the new film The Railway Man, alongside fellow Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman as Lomax's wife Patti.
The film, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, starts filming in Scotland on Monday. It is based on Lomax's book of the same name, which tells of his suffering as a young Scottish Pow on the Burma railway and how, with the help of his wife, he travelled back to Asia to meet one of his torturers in an...
On two occasions in recent months, Colin Firth has met for lunch with an elderly couple from Berwick-upon-Tweed. The pair had a story to tell, one that Firth has struggled to comprehend.
In Edinburgh today the Oscar-winner spoke of his admiration for Eric Lomax, a survivor of the Burma railway, who he will play in the new film The Railway Man, alongside fellow Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman as Lomax's wife Patti.
The film, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, starts filming in Scotland on Monday. It is based on Lomax's book of the same name, which tells of his suffering as a young Scottish Pow on the Burma railway and how, with the help of his wife, he travelled back to Asia to meet one of his torturers in an...
- 4/27/2012
- by Kirsty Scott
- The Guardian - Film News
Creative Scotland review of £18m core funding will bite from Edinburgh to Orkney
More than 50 of Scotland's best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government arts agency, Creative Scotland.
The agency is to review its £18m core funding for 52 "foundation" arts and drama companies, theatres, cinemas and festivals from Shetland to Glasgow as the public sector braces itself for heavy and long-term cuts in government spending.
The warning came from Andrew Dixon, Creative Scotland's chief executive, in an interview with the Guardian. It comes as Edinburgh prepares for next month's annual festivals, when more than 2m tickets are likely to be sold during four weeks of theatre, music, dance, comedy, opera and book festival events.
The Edinburgh international festival, regarded as the world's premier arts festival, gets £2.3m a year in foundation funding, while the book festival,...
More than 50 of Scotland's best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government arts agency, Creative Scotland.
The agency is to review its £18m core funding for 52 "foundation" arts and drama companies, theatres, cinemas and festivals from Shetland to Glasgow as the public sector braces itself for heavy and long-term cuts in government spending.
The warning came from Andrew Dixon, Creative Scotland's chief executive, in an interview with the Guardian. It comes as Edinburgh prepares for next month's annual festivals, when more than 2m tickets are likely to be sold during four weeks of theatre, music, dance, comedy, opera and book festival events.
The Edinburgh international festival, regarded as the world's premier arts festival, gets £2.3m a year in foundation funding, while the book festival,...
- 7/23/2010
- by Severin Carrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Ken Hay, CEO of national film agency Scottish Screen, will not be moving across to new £60 million ($87 million) creative industries body Creative Scotland. Hay lost out on the top job to Andrew Dixon, who today announced the three key executives underneath him: Vena Dhupa, Iain Munro and Caroline Parkinson. Worryingly, none of these top four jobs have any experience in film. The idea is that all three new appointments will work across every creative industry. Sounds like a dog’s breakfast to me. Scottish producers were afraid that film would be sidelined when Scottish Screen merged with the Scottish [...]...
- 6/9/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
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