The Agency was the main sponsor of the Film Strand of Leith Festival (www.leithfestival.com) this year. As part of this, we set up and ran a Short Film Competition which culminated last Friday night in an Awards presentation to the winners.
We had 9 finalists and we decided to award two prizes on the night. First prize went to David Hutchinson, a local Leith man who submitted “Carousel”. We also awarded a special prize to Callum Bird Neilson, a local 10 year old who put together “Star Wars IV – A New Morning”.
But many thanks to all the budding film producers who took part and made the evening such a great success.
We were also delighted to introduce Jason Stone of David Reviews (www.davidreviews.com) to the Festival this year as a guest speaker. Jason spoke initially about short film-making in general and then proceeded to take the audience on a retrospective journey through the last year’s most recognisable ads.
He was accompanied on stage for this by a Panel comprising of Simon Mallinson of MTP, Gerry Farrell of The Leith Agency and Rory Rooney, Director - and a very interesting Q&A session ensued between Jason, the Panel and the audience.
The evening continued into the “wee small hours” on the top deck of Cruz and a good night was had by all – at least that’s how it felt the next morning!