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Scotland’s Sands movie show has group nan lineup for its 5th edition, which will tally from April 17 – 19.
Led by Festival Director Ania Trzebiatowska and produced by nan Byre Theatre astatine nan University of St Andrews, Sands runs crossed 3 days successful St Andrews, Scotland. The arena was founded by nan Russo Brothers’ independent workplace AGBO.
Headline events from this year’s programme see an on-stage Q&A convention and philharmonic arena pinch nan seasoned BAFTA and Grammy award-winning composer Craig Armstrong (Ray, The Great Gatsby). Titled An Afternoon pinch Craig Armstrong, nan arena will spot Armstrong successful speech pinch Edith Bowman astir his profession and imaginative process. The arena will besides characteristic unrecorded euphony performed connected shape by St Andrews euphony scholars.
The show will erstwhile again equine its signature “This Much I Know…” series, wherever starring manufacture professionals talk their existent believe and nan modern marketplace. This year’s guests see John Sloss, laminitis and CEO of Cinetic; AGBO Chief Creative Officer Angela Russo-Otstot; and accumulation designer James Price. Price’s credits see Poor Things, which earned him some an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Production Design, arsenic good arsenic titles specified arsenic Bugonia, The Iron Claw, Speak No Evil, and The Ipcress File.
Elsewhere, seasoned screenwriter and filmmaker Charlie Kaufman will recreation to St Andrews to return portion successful an onstage convention titled Moving Pictures: The Poetry of Cinema and Vice Versa alongside writer Eva H.D. astir nan narration betwixt film, poetry, and nan imaginative unconscious.
Pioneering movie theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey, champion known for her seminal effort Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, will sojourn Sands to present a screening of her rarely-seen 1982 indie characteristic Crystal Gazing, followed by an extended Q&A pinch Professor Glyn Davis. Sands laminitis Joe Russo will besides return to nan arena for an in-depth speech pinch Angela Russo-Otstot astir filmmaking, workplace development, and nan evolving scenery of world storytelling.
The show will unfastened pinch a curated programme of talks exploring really artificial intelligence, societal media, and emerging technologies are reshaping imaginative practice. The arena will adjacent pinch Rohan Kanawade’s 2025 characteristic Cactus Pears. Other titles group to surface see Tony Benna’s documentary André Is an Idiot, Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Academy Award-nominated Cutting Through Rocks, and Zamo Mkhwanazi’s Laundry (Uhlanjululo).
“Sands is simply a ceremony of storytelling and its powerfulness to bring group into shared affectional and imaginative spaces, creating moments of relationship wherever films go catalysts for conversation, understanding, and inspiration,” Trzebiatowska said successful a statement.
Joe Russo added: “As we scope our 5th edition, I’m struck by nan consciousness of intention, nan attraction successful programming, and nan generosity of nan artists. I’m excited to spot wherever nan conversations lead from here.”
