22 May 2015
It’s been hard to keep quiet about this as it moved forward. I am genuinely proud,excited and yet slightly anxious as the Polish documentary that has been in the wings for years and at times not even close to looking like having a stage debut made the list as a music documentary at this years Edinburgh Film Festival.
Screenings of Polska at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Saturday 20 June 20:50, Cineworld 3
Thursday 25 June 20:40, Odeon 4
Official announcement – http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/…/scottish-filmmaking-strikes-…
Herald article – http://www.heraldscotland.com/…/gillan-mullan-klf-founder-a…
Opening night is Wednesday 17th June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLdOq4ika88&feature=youtu.be
David Barras has done a superb job at editing what was a near 2.5 hour block of footage down to an acceptable 1hr 25 min film documentary. We both think it works really well and as it has been accepted for the Film Festival it appears others do too 🙂
I will be at the Cineworld screening for a Q and A session on the 20th June with Dave but due to commitments in Marrakech I won’t make the second screening.
The film has been doctored for the big screen so we have a version we can release on Blu Ray. We plan to add a lot of the unedited footage including at least 5 song performances to give me my first Blu Ray release. It will also be released on standard DVD. The content is still to be put together as we are concentrating on polishing the documentary just now.
Release date will probably be late Summer. I’ll give you more details as we get them in.