The unDependence Film Festival is coming back for the 4th time to unusual cinema spaces in Scotland.
In 2018 we invite filmmakers of short and feature films to share their work with the Scottish audience. We celebrate, promote, and keep alive the un-dependent spirit in the arts and film making by showing Scottish and international moving images that will cause (e)motions in the audience.
unDependence /ʌn’ dɪˈpɛnd(ə)ns/
1. a state of realization that things can be different; realization that change can, and does happen. Paying special regard to change that occurs within oneself and the constant fluctuations within modern society.
2. is being (pro)active and thinking for yourself.
3. asking “What does it mean to be an individual in a dynamic society?”
The unDependence Film Festival is an art festival as well as a social project. We invite local artists and organisation to collaborate in a versatile program of screenings and film-related workshops for everyone to celebrate and express freedom, choice and identity.
**** We are looking for films dealing with the question of dependencies on all levels in our lives. ***
With the beginning of 2017, the UK has entered its infamous countdown to the Brexit. Is this a change for good against all odds or a false promise of independence? 2018 is possibly the last year for Brits as European citizens and we will be addressing this period by welcoming British and Foreign short or long moving images on the matter in our special strand “(No) Strings Attached”.
As in previous years,we are also looking for shorts, minis (under 10 min) and feature drams, documentaries, comedies and animation (and if you find yourself in between or experimental, too).
The unDependence Film Festival will open in Edinburgh in April 2018, after which the programme will travel across to Stirling, expanding the reach of the festival and your film.
unDependence Film Festival is a project of Edinburgh based Pop Up! Scotland. Pop Up! is a Community Interest enterprise dedicated to organising exhibitions and art workshops. The company aims to bring art to everybody, in unexpected places, and outside traditional exhibition spaces.
£150 Rising Star Award
£350 Female Filmmaker of Excellence Award from Citizen Ticket and Anonymous Donors.
The films selected are mainly productions by not yet established, professional or unprofessional filmmakers from Scotland and all over the world. A small group of curators creates the program, and a jury of curators and guest jurors from the film industry will nominate the winner of the Rising Star Award and the Female Filmmaker of Excellence Award.
