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Edinburgh Film Festival Returns To Sold Out Screenings & Competition From The City’s Fringe Events
21.08.2023 - 13:29 / deadline.com
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is back.
The Scottish festival returned Friday evening with the Scottish drama Silent Roar, the opening film of what organizers have described as a scaled-down, “special one-year iteration,” which will relaunch the fest following its brief closure last year after the collapse of its owner the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI).
Execs at the CMI appointed administrators in October. At the time of administration, a statement from the CMI said a “perfect storm” of rising costs and falling admissions numbers due to the pandemic had been exacerbated by the current cost of living crisis.
The EIFF brand was later retrieved by Screen Scotland, a national funding body, and this year the Edinburgh International Festival, a wider cultural event in the Scottish capital, is facilitating film events with infrastructure such as ticketing, finance, and logistics so that it can host guests.
As part of the CMI’s closure, its two celebrated physical cinema sites, the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen and Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, also shut their doors. Staff members working at all three organizations were made redundant. Edinburgh Filmhouse opened in 1979 in a former church and had acted as a central hub for EIFF, where premieres could be mounted, and festival guests and attendees could congregate. This year EIFF is split between two commercial cinema chains, Vue Edinburgh Omni and Everyman Edinburgh at the St James Quarter.
Alongside the music, dance, and literature program hosted as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, EIFF is unraveling amid the city’s popular fringe theatre festival, and Edinburgh’s annual industry-focused TV festival opens on Tuesday. In 2008, EIFF organizers
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