Starting Block has announced its shortlist of fifteen short films to be developed at residential film schools this August. Run by Diversity Films, Starting Block is a Creative Scotland supported training and filmmaking scheme aimed at first-time filmmakers aged 16-60. Filmmakers from diverse communities in Scotland were invited to submit ideas for short films based on the theme of ‘Diversity’. 

These fifteen short dramas, documentary and mixed format films reflect a range of subject matter, characters and experiences.  Filmmakers will develop their ideas at residential centres in Fife and Dumfries & Galloway.  Six films will be selected to go into production, each with a professional mentor.

For more information on Starting Block, please visit:http://www.diversityfilms.org.uk

Or contact Sarah Young at:
 
T: 0141 357 7288
E: mail@diversityfilms.org.uk

The fifteen selected films are: 

- ‘Shaun’ by Andy Gregor: Dunfermline, Fife

- ‘Living on the Edge’ by Samantha Fernando: Kirkcudbright Dumfries & Galloway

- ‘The Village’ by Tracey Patterson, Billie Duffy, Sophie Watson & Toni Peacock: Kelloholm, Dumfries & Galloway

- ‘The Brain and the Tongue’ by Shug Kennedy: Barrowfield, Glasgow

- ‘The Great Divide’ by Tania Grant: Aberdour, Fife

- ‘The Final Chapter’ by Laurence McNicholas: Pollokshields, Glasgow 

- ‘I Alive’ by Thomas Simpson: Bridgeton, Glasgow

- ‘Running Wild’ by Pete Rennie: Cairneyhill, Fife

- ‘Asperger’s and I’ by Derek Wilson: Glenrothes, Fife 

 - ‘Lamb Chops’ by Michael Venter, Yen Hongmei Jin, Stas Sindov & Jihad Diab: Dumfries (Various)

- ‘The Turning Point’ by Agnes Wasike: Scotstoun, Glasgow

- ‘Taxi for Henderson’ by Ian McLaughlin and others: Provanhall, Glasgow 

- ‘The Green Man’ by Bijan Sheidaei: Dennistoun, Glasgow

- ‘Time’ by Kate Shenton: Lockerbie, Dumfries & Galloway

- ‘The Casanova King’ by Lucy Elliot: Woodlands, Glasgow