News / Robertson’s films
ACTOR Steven Robertson, who was raised in Vidlin and starred in the BBC’s murder mystery programme ‘Shetland’, says he is relishing the prospect of coming home for film festival screenings of his work early next month.
Shetland Arts’ annual Screenplay festival will feature showings of his films ‘Inside I’m Dancing’ and ‘Joyeux Noel’, after which Robertson will take part in a Q&A session with the audience.
‘Joyeux Noel’, first released in 2005, will be screened only three months before the 100th anniversary of the December 1914 Christmas truce in the First World War, the story of which is told from the perspective of French, Scottish and German soldiers.
It is also nearly a decade since the release of ‘Inside I’m Dancing’, a funny, moving feature about two men admitted to care home, one with muscular dystrophy and the other with cerebral palsy.
Robertson said: “I am delighted to have been asked to attend this year’s Screenplay. It means a great deal to me that they have chosen to screen ‘Inside I’m Dancing’ and Joyeux Noel’ at this year’s festival.
“This year is the tenth anniversary of the release of ‘Inside I’m Dancing’, and with this year also being the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, I can’t think of a better time to have these two films shown again on the big screen.”
The actor added: “The fact that this is all happening back home in Shetland makes it all the more special and I am really looking forward to it.”
Screenplay 2014 is the eighth film festival in the isles, and is curated by BBC film critic Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and Kathy Hubbard.
In total there will be 20 feature films, six documentary screenings, three workshops, one lecture, 11 Q&A sessions, two film quizzes, six educational screenings, two outreach events and lots of local and short film screenings.
The festival’s other guests include revered actor Brian Cox, musician Gruff Rhys (who will also perform a solo gig), Joanna Hogg, Clio Bernard, Lucinda Broadbent, Norina Mackey, Shelley Cobb, Susan Kemp, Dr Pasquale Iannone, Frederik Subei and Robert Alan Jamieson.
- You can read full details about the line-up for Screenplay 2014 here.
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