It’s not particularly surprising for the final day of the Edinburgh International Film Festival to begin with a selection of short films on the big screen in Filmhouse 1. Admittedly, it’s a tad unusual that all the films which will be shown on Sunday 1 July are the work of non-professionals. Yet what is utterly unique is that none of the films even existed when the festival opened on 20 June — in fact, they didn’t even exist the previous weekend!
The EIFF’s Science Fiction Filmmaking Challenge dared budding film-makers aged between 16 and 25 to make their own short science fiction film — with a maximum running time of five minutes. Nine teams took up the Challenge to shoot, edit and submit their film by 4pm on Monday 25 June. Given that some teams only came together on the Saturday morning, that didn’t leave much time for hesitation…
First published by Reel Scotland; read more here
