A Kind of Seeing

29/07/2023

Delighted that our film Launch! On the Sea with Scotland's Lifeboats will be back on a big community cinema screen NEXT WEEK: Tuesday 1 August at 6.30pm in Portpatrick Village Hall as part of Portpatrick Lifeboat Week 2023. It's screening as a partnership between Portpatrick Local Cinema and Driftwood Cinema.

The screening is free but donations will be collected for the local Portpatrick Lifeboat and there will be members of the crew on hand for a Q&A afterwards.

If you're in the area, please do come along as well as what looks to be a brilliant line-up for the whole of RNLI Lifeboat Week in Portpatrick...

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LIFEBOAT WEEK - Tuesday 1 AUG 2023, Portpatrick Village Hall

In partnership with Driftwood Cinema & raising funds for the Portpatrick Lifeboat join us on Tursday 1 August at 6.30pm ( doors open)

“Launch! On The Sea With Scotland’s Lifeboats “

This film dives into archive film and video of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s best contemporary musicians. Directed by award-winning curator Shona Thomson, the film is created from rarely seen footage of Scotland’s communities , you might also catch a glimpse of some footage from Portpatrick.

There will also be a Q & A session after the film with some of the crew from Portpatrick Lifeboat!

The event is free but donations will be collected for the RNLI

A Kind of Seeing

17/06/2022

Finally! After 2 years working with Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Scotland, Anne Milne and Caron Hughes, we're sharing the *FILMS OF ACTION* project as part of the Folk Film Gathering. We've been making and screening films with groups who have been doing amazing things during lockdown in Whitburn, Auchinleck, Kelty, Addiewell, Dunfermline, Cardowan, Glenboig, Danderhall, Stoneyburn, High Valleyfield, and Cowdenbeath.

Join us at 7pm on Wed 29 Jun at the Scottish Storytelling Centre to watch and celebrate some of the films made by coalfield communities with us in lockdown + chat over some refreshments about what's needed now (including community cinemas!📽️)

Book here > https://bit.ly/CRTFilmsSharing
And please do share with interested folk. Thanks!

This event is being sold at full capacity without social distancing. Audiences are kindly requested to wear masks at all times, unless exempt.

15/09/2021

THE local fundraising branch of the RNLI have been invited along to the showing of a new film at Greenock's Waterfront Cinema.

05/09/2021

Great to see Jenny Sturgeon (and her trolley) today when she interviewed me for film she’s making with Sandy Butler. It’s this November she’s finally touring her brilliant album live with films I made 👀

26/08/2021

So it's taken two years but it feels so good to finally announce the first confirmed dates for the cinema tour of Launch On The Sea. Cannae wait for it to screen at such brilliant venues in collaboration with their local RNLI stations and branches. And there'll be more announced too. If you're near a screening, please do join in. Massive 💙 to those who have stuck with us on this journey.

Launch! On The Sea With Scotland’s Lifeboats is a new film that dives into archive footage of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary musicians.

20/06/2021

Very proud that Launch! has finally made it to the big screen. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to bring it home to local cinemas across Scotland 💙

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03/06/2021

We have a premiere! 📽💙

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Launch! will premiere at Mareel on Sun 20th June! 📢

Launch! features footage from both Lerwick (when Santa visited in 2019) and Aith (the 1961 naming of the lifeboat John and Frances Macfarlane), so we're thrilled to have our first public screening at Shetland's beautiful coastal cinema and arts centre.

Shetlanders: tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10am. Tickets can be booked online from Shetland Arts, in person at Mareel’s Box Office, or over the phone on 01595 745500. Capacity will be limited, so snap them up quickly. 😀

02/04/2021

So pleased to reveal the website for Launch On The Sea today! It's been quite the journey so far and we're looking forward to when Launch! can finally hit the big screen: https://launchonthesea.com/

Big thanks to all our aforementioned funders, partners, and those incredible musicians👇🏻

Plus the brilliant Sam Jones, Lifeboat Operations Manager at Tobermory RNLI Lifeboat Station, and the backroom team of Jen and Jack at Screen Argyll, our marketing maestro Neil Hepburn, demon designer Stuart Graham at Snowball, marvellous mixer David McEwan, and fantastic film grader Minttu Maari Mäntynen 💙

Launch! On The Sea With Scotland’s Lifeboats is a new film that dives into archive footage of RNLI crews, with an immersive soundtrack from some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary musicians.

08/03/2021

Honoured to work with and be supported by the brilliant women who work in our sector - very much included is the team at Film Hub Scotland 📽💙

18/01/2021

18/11/2020

Yesss!!! Congratulations Jenny Sturgeon! 🍾🍾🍾

Congratulations 🎉
The Scottish Alternative Music Award winner for Best Acoustic 2020 sponsored by BTO Solicitors LLP is Jenny Sturgeon

05/11/2020

So fantastic that Matchbox Cineclub is being recognised for their great work. I’ve done one of their brilliant captioning workshops and used their excellent captioning service. A rightly deserved award 👌

23/10/2020

It's been a big week here at A Kind of Seeing. As well as the FOCAL awards, yesterday was the launch of another community-focused project I've been working on for about a year with Coalfields Regeneration Trust - Scotland that I feel (just like Our Maryhill) incredibly proud of being a part of.

CRT Films of Action is a community filmmaking project based on the belief that "the coalfield communities have a plethora of positive and inspiring stories to tell that go way beyond their coalmining heritage". Filmmaker Anne Milne and I worked with brilliant development worker Caron Hughes and the CRT team to facilitate and platform the voices of around 50 people living and giving through lockdown in coalfield communities to be shared through 13 films you can watch at the link below (captions available via YouTube links) 👇

Inspired by the befriending calls being made throughout lockdown, I worked on four 'telephone story' films. It's been an honour to sit at my desk at home here and record telephone conversations/blethers with people who are shielding but have a positivity, strength and dignity that we should all be inspired by.

Listen out for: ERIC - the founder of Dunfermline Camera Club; NANCY - a resident of Addiewell in West Lothian, RAB - a community leader in High Valleyfield in Fife, and the wonderful CHIT CHAT GROUP facilitated by West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network SCIO in Stoneyburn.

Please share to ensure these voices are heard far and wide:
https://crtconnect.org.uk/moodle30/course/view.php?id=103.

The idea for this pilot filmmaking project, was the belief that the coalfield communities have a plethora of positive and inspiring stories to tell that go way beyond their coalmining heritage.

22/10/2020

Well, we didn’t win at the FOCAL International Awards tonight but one of our amazing community curators Betty was on-screen in the ceremony with Patrick Kielty AND she joined us in the parallel zoom chat. So lovely to have a blether with folk from the project - there’s the prize right there 🥂📽❤️

22/10/2020

FOCAL International Awards at 7pm tonight! 🎉 Will be virtually holding hands with Our Maryhill project collaborator Glasgow Film Festival as they announce the winner of Best Use of Footage on Innovative Platforms here: https://vimeo.com/470110675.

19/10/2020

It's FOCAL International Awards week! This Thursday at 7pm the online Awards Ceremony (hosted by Patrick Kielty, no less) will be live streamed on FOCAL's Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/focalinternational.

The OUR MARYHILL project team and hopefully some of our community curators will be watching to see how we get on in the 'Best Use of Footage on Innovative Platforms' category. It's a brilliant nominee shortlist to be part of: the incredible John Akomfrah, and the BBC Rewind team in Belfast.

Good luck to everyone! And big thanks to all our partners:
Glasgow Film Festival, St Charles Primary School in Maryhill, John Paul Academy, Queens Cross Housing Association, Community Connectors, Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector - GCVS, National Library of Scotland

This is "FOCAL International Awards 2020 - Please Join Us" by FOCAL International on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

16/10/2020

It’s unleashed into the world TODAY! Buy and listen well to Jenny Sturgeon’s new album THE LIVING MOUNTAIN. What all the critics are saying 👇 is true. It’s a joy to hear 💚

From Jenny:
⭐️⭐️OUT NOW ⭐️⭐️
My new album ’The Living Mountain'

CD/LP available here - http://smarturl.it/thelivingmountain

“a love letter to the Cairngorms" - Country Walking Magazine
"Sturgeon invokes the spirit of Nan Shepherd" - The Scotsman
"A lovely thing ...a beautiful calmness" - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
"the most important record you will listen to this year." - From the Margins

22/09/2020

So I'm going to be having an online blether with Jenny Sturgeon about her brilliant project THE LIVING MOUNTAIN this Saturday at 3pm as part of Way WORD Festival. I've been working on the visuals for the live touring performance of Jenny's album inspired by Nan Shepherd's book about the Cairngorm Mountains. There'll be a few previews of tracks with films featuring 1940s archive footage of intrepid hikers in tweed on the plateau. Always a treat to see. Book on to join us 👇

And pre-order Jenny's album: http://smarturl.it/thelivingmountain

Jenny and Shona talk about the origins and experience of working on their latest project, which explores Nan Shepherd’s writing, the Cairngorm mountain range, what it means to connect with a wild landscape and to find a sense of place.