Spring is Sprung - With Films and Festivals Galore!

A belated Happy Saint David's Day and an even more belated Happy New Year to all!

I felt it was time to update what's been happening at BFFS Scotland (or the Information Officer's corner at least) as the lighter days, sunnier weather and post-Oscar season seem to have brought a lot of film festivals, new movies and lots of stuff to do and tell you about...

Firstly, we have the next Committee meeting taking place this Saturday 17th March 2007 at the Gillis Centre, Edinburgh. This will be to discuss our plans for the Spring Event and which films we'll be showing. The date is tentatively booked for Sunday 6th May and the venue will definitely be Glasgow Film Theatre but everything else is yet to be decided - let me know by email (info@bffsscotland.co.uk) if you have any ideas.

Secondly, it seems to be film festival season a-go-go... Last month was the Glasgow Film Festival (my partner and I attended the opening night screening of so-so British film Cashback - see BBC Film item), this week is the first Cinema China festival in Edinburgh (touring elsewhere over the spring), next week sees the inaugeral New Europe Film Festival in Edinburgh and the launch of the 2007 French Film Festival and over the next few months there will be the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and a batch of international festivals before our own annual Scottish blowout, the Edinburgh International Film Festival. We are trying to get to as many of the launches, screenings and events as possible to report on for the bffsscotland website but I'd also really appreciatte any reviews or comments anyone has on any of this year's festivals.

Finally, thanks to my colleagues at iofilm.co.uk, I now have a massive batch of short and feature films to review for them and bffsscotland.co.uk so watch out for the reviews shortly.

In other news: ahead of the Spring event I'll be spending a few late nights and fraught lunch hours getting our next newsletter out to societies, cinemas and arts organisations throughout Scotland. If you have anything you'd like to see in the next edition, let me know and I'll do my best.

Also, does your film society/community cinema/film group/whatever have a blog or website you'd like to tell us about - post a comment here with a link and (a) everyone will be able to visit it and (b) I'll add links to the main bffsscotland website for your group - or you can if you register to use the site and click Weblinks/Add Link. Also please feel free to add links, info or whatever to our bffs scotland wiki - just email me for the password and you can start editing and adding stuff!

Have a great March and hopefully hear from you or see you soon!

Nicola

Information Officer, BFFS Scotland
Editor, bffsscotland.co.uk