It’s the film special! As Jamie says in the introduction to this month’s theme, now that it’s getting a bit lighter outside we’re once again advising you to retreat into a darkened room and enjoy some of the many and varied delights on offer in the many film festival programmes launching in Scotland this month. Our lead feature is an interview with Alex Hetherington and Simon Eilbeck, the director and subject of The Disco – A Portrait of Simon Eilbeck, which opens Glasgow Short Film Festival this month. It’s also a portrait of queer club night Hot Mess and the essential sanctuary it has created. As HippFest returns to the Bo’Ness Hippodrome with its 15th edition, we talk to the composer who’s a regular fixture in the silent film programming, Neil Brand, as he prepares for his greatest challenge yet – to improvise a score for a film he hasn’t seen before. And so much more!
