Listen up you big sponsors, get yourselves in touch with the Edinburgh Film Festival organisers and sponsor this superb event, the coolest film festival and the longest running in the World. It premieres some great films, and showcases a host of great foreign movies to a wide audience.
News from the Scotsman shows that it’s in trouble this year, after having a couple of major sponsors pull out and decide to sponsor something that doesn’t bring so much culture and enjoyment. (One of them was Nokia – Boo!)
[The EIFF] is to get a £265,000 bail-out package to fill the gap left by the loss of its two major sponsors…
…The Scottish Executive has stepped in with £150,000…Edinburgh City Council is adding £60,000 to the festival’s core grant of about £80,000. Scottish Screen is adding another £55,000 from its own sources.
There had been a big concern that they weren’t going to secure enough funding to pay for some of the big deals for movies this years festival. This is a big deal, last year we were introduced to such movies as The Machinist, Tokyo Godfathers and Oldboy, to name but three of the massive line up.
It’s a great event, and with any luck we’ll be there this year and have some excellent write ups. If any of you make it and are in Edinburgh, give me a shout and I’ll gladly meet you over a pint, you can pay as my taxes are funding the event! Seriously, you should visit this festival. More updates as this years site goes live.
