The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced its line-up for 2010, and having rebranded itself “the festival of discovery”, includes pictures from a number of first and second-time filmmakers.
EIFF kicks off on June 16, and will screen 22 world premieres, including debut features by directors Ben Miller (Huge) and Hattie Dalton (Third Star), and the latest film from London to Brighton director Paul Andrew Williams (Cherry Tree Lane). There is also a retrospective of “lost” British films from the Sixties and Seventies, with Stephen Frears’ debut Gumshoe, Ken Russell’s Savage Messiah and Horace Ove’s Pressure, the first British film by a black director, all screening.
In all, the festival will screen 21 new British films, along with several from more established directors from years gone by. Hannah Gill, the festival's artistic director, commented, ""It will be really interesting to have these new young directors around with Mike [Hodges], Stephen [Frears] and Sean Connery...it's different generations of British cinema."
For more information about the festival, please click here, or read the Guardian article here.
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