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Interview with Dear Frankie Director

Shona Auerbach is an award-winning short film director whose first feature, Dear Frankie, had its UK premiere at Edinburgh. The film got a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, and it won the audience award for best international feature at the LA Film...

Hollywood comes to Coventry

Warwick Arts Centre's November and December Film Season includes a weekend of incredible cinema events and special guests. On Thursday 25 November there's a special preview screening of Dear Frankie, by Warwickshire film maker, Shona Auerbach. Shona is an...

Frankie speaking with movie writer

ANDREA GIBB: Film writer says Inverclyde has a special hold on her imagination.GREENOCK writer Andrea Gibb is getting ready for one of the biggest weeks in her career with the UK premiere of her second feature film, Dear Frankie. In an exclusive interview with the...

Andrea’s films up for seven Baftas

FILM writer Andrea Gibb is celebrating today after two of her films were showered with Scottish BAFTA nominations. Dear Frankie, which was shot in Greenock and Gourock last year, is up for three awards at the glittering ceremony, the equivalent of Scotland’s Oscars....

KIFF’S 10 MUST-SEE FILMS

Butler's top 10 Kansas International Film Festival picks: “Bazaar Bizarre”: A fanciful/disturbing riff on KC's own serial killer, Bob Berdella. (See story at right) “Dear Frankie”: Scottish hankie-grabber about a deaf boy yearning for a father. Sounds icky. Isn't....

Art-house scene passing L.A.

When Milestone Films recently brought The Clay Bird, a Bangladeshi film about growing up Muslim in a country about to ignite in revolution, to the U.S. art-house circuit, the film made its simultaneous debut in New York City and San Francisco, but not Los Angeles....

Jersey Girl DVD Extras

...Disc Extras Static menu with music Scene Access with 18 cues and remote access Subtitles/Captions in English, Spanish with remote access 5 Other Trailer(s) featuring Raising Helen, Finding Neverland, Shall We Dance?, Dear Frankie, The Alamo.10 Deleted Scenes ......

DEAR FRANKIE

(U.K.) A Miramax Films (U.S.)/Pathe Distribution (U.K.) release of a Pathe Pictures presentation in association with U.K. Film Council, Scottish Screen of a Scorpio Films production in association with Sigma Films, Inside Track Prods. Produced by Caroline Wood....

Interview – Cannes – Gerard Butler

His last two big movies have been Tomb Raider 2 and Timeline, but don’t hold that against him. Gerard Butler was the best thing in both those movies, and the tall, dark and handsome Scottish actor is on the verge of big things. Refreshingly down-to-earth, the 34...

Miramax picks up rights to Scottish Drama!

LONDON- - Miramax Films has aquired Shona Auerbach's Scottish drama "Dear Frankie" for distribution in North and South America, Spain, Italy and Australia. The Pic, starring Emily Mortimer and Gerard Butler, is the story of a single mother who writes letter's to her...

Dance card fills up with star vehicles

A diverse assortment of American and international pictures fills out the star-laden Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival, while some new works from seldom-represented nations dot the extensive World Cinema and World Documentary categories. The Jan. 15...

2004;THE ONES TO WATCH

Scotland's future depends on one thing: its people. As we enter 2004, we profile the personalities who will be making headlines this year - and during the years to come - in the cultural and political life of the nation. Here, in words and pictures, are some of those...

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