Our 2009 Guests complete with their "My Favourite Film" choices
 

Friday 4th December 2009

Gable End Screening - Scottish and Gaelic Shorts shown outside. Drams provided for warmth
Duck Soup - "My Favourite Film" selected by actor Paul Riley
The Man who fell to Earth - "My Favourite Film" selected by Charles Kennedy (MP)
La Strada  - "My Favourite Film" selected by Gillies MacKinnon (Director)
Twilight - late night screening of the popular Rom-Vamp film

Saturday 5th December

The Apartment - "My Favourite Film" selected by Ricky Ross & Lorraine MacIntosh (Musicians)
Whisky Galore! - Introduced by Lawrence Sutcliffe (Highlands & Islands Film Commission)
Funny Bones - "My Favourite Film" selected by AL Kennedy (Writer and Comedian)
The Jungle Book - a screening of the classic Children's story
The Wages of Fear - "My Favourite Film" selected by Paul McGuigan (Director)
Lucky Number Slevin - Introduction and discussion with the film's director Paul McGuigan
Gable End Screening - More Scottish and Gaelic Shorts shown outside. More drams provided!
Last King of Scotland - Introduced by the film's producer Andrea Calderwood
Cinema Paradiso - "My Favourite Film" selected by Sanjeev Kohli (Comedian)
Transformers - Blockbuster Action film about Alien Robots in disguise!
Outpost - Award-winning home-grown horror film, introduced by actor Johnny Meres

Sunday 6th December

The Piano - "My Favourite Film" selected by Andrea Calderwood
Regeneration - Introduction and discussion with Director Gillies MacKinnon
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter .. and Spring - "My Favourite Film" by poet Kevin MacNeil
Rockets Galore! - Introduced by Lawrence Sutcliffe (Highlands & Islands Film Commission)
Danny, Champion of the World - classic Roald Dahl tale of a heroic boy
Casablanca - closing the Festival with class and style - a Hollywood classic

Lead Animator Anthony Farquhar-Smith
Following the previous year's success at the festival, Anthony returned last year to talk about his involvement in, and the making of, the much talked about new animated film 'The Fantastic Mr Fox'

Professor Duncan Petrie (Film Expert)  was a new addition to the festival and he presented a enlightening talk on the subject of Scottish film under the alluring title 'The Land Beyond Brigadoon'

Laurence Henson travelled across the water to join us and presented a special talk, entitled 'Broken Images and the early days', as well as introduced films he made with the Children's Film Foundation

There was also expert and insightful introductions to a number of the Festival films by Lawrence Sutcliffe from the Highland Film Commission.