{"id":3625,"date":"2014-10-18T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T10:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:01:45","slug":"birks-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/birks-cinema","title":{"rendered":"update 22: Birks Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE &#8211; THE TIME\/DATE OF THE BIRKS CINEMA SCREENING IS 2PM, SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce a screening of the film at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birkscinema.co.uk\/news\/about-us\"> Birks Cinema<\/a>, Aberfeldy, courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartlandfilmsociety.org.uk\/\">Heartland Film Society<\/a> as part of the Aberfeldy Film Festival. I&#8217;ve also agreed to attend because I&#8217;m keen to see the cinema, originally built in 1939 but recently refurbished with a 100-seat state-of-the-art digital theatre. I&#8217;m happy too to meet the good folks of Aberfeldy so if you&#8217;re in the area please come along.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the HFS heard about the film when one of their members attended the Scottish Film Summit in Edinburgh earlier this year where Siobhan Synnot, <em>Scotland on Sunday&#8217;s<\/em> film critic cited <em>The Devil&#8217;s Plantation<\/em> as &#8216;the best Scottish film of 2013&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>At time of writing this is the last outing for the film. I&#8217;m always open to offers but right now I&#8217;m prepping my next film, <em>Voyageuse<\/em>, a project long in gestation but sadly short on funds, having been rejected by Creative Scotland&#8217;s Quality Arts Production Fund earlier this month and despite having the support of the CCA, Glasgow to create an ambitious presentation beyond the &#8216;normal&#8217; way of watching films.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic then that only yesterday Creative Scotland launched its long-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativescotland.com\/what-we-do\/latest-news\/archive\/2014\/10\/film-strategy-2014-17-published\">Film Strategy<\/a> &#8211; not that I&#8217;m eligible to apply to their Screen Fund due to their onerous T&amp;Cs. Fortunately I&#8217;m in a better position than many of my peers because I&#8217;m able to make films on miniscule budgets having taught myself the necessary skills over the last 30 years. Still, it&#8217;s regrettable that Creative Scotland choose not to promote projects made outside their orbit because they would gain credibility at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>For those who&#8217;ve followed this blog over the last seven years, I hope you&#8217;ll continue to follow my progress as I migrate from this project to <em>Voyageuse<\/em>. I&#8217;ll be launching a new blog soon so watch this space &#8211; and if you do the Twitter thing, please follow @MyVoyageuse &#8211; to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce a screening of the film at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birkscinema.co.uk\/news\/about-us\"> Birks Cinema<\/a>, Aberfeldy, courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartlandfilmsociety.org.uk\/\">Heartland Film Society<\/a> as part of the Aberfeldy Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,51,194],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-birks-cinema","tag-creative-scotland","tag-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elementalfilms.eu\/devilsplantation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}