by cinetopia | September 4, 2020 | Blog, Love Your Local, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Betty Stojnić interviews Love Your Local co-curators about conceiving a new, online series for Cinetopia:DOC

by cinetopia | August 18, 2020 | Blog, Love Your Local | 0 Comments

So Mayer traces a brilliant outline of the social and historical context in which Varda shot Daguerréotypes.

by cinetopia | August 4, 2020 | Blog, Love Your Local | 0 Comments

Milo Farragher-Hanks reviews our second film in our documentary series, Love Your Local, showcasing how this film tackles questions around the benefits and definitions of the idea of a community

by cinetopia | July 26, 2020 | Blog, Love Your Local | 0 Comments

Curators Amaya Bañuelos Marco and Federica Pugliese introduce our new online programme of documentaries and curated online discussion exploring the significance of community.

by cinetopia | June 3, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

Elisa interviews Franco Calandrini, head of the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, and they discuss adapting the festival format in the post-lockdown scenario.

by cinetopia | May 12, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

Betty interviews musician Aurora Engine, with whom we collaborated on Electric Muses in March.

by cinetopia | April 13, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

Befitting our current predicament, guest contributor Federica Pugliese examines films which have explored confinement and isolation.

by cinetopia | April 2, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

A throwback to last month, in which Elisa took part as a volunteer for the Glasgow Film Festival.

by cinetopia | March 19, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

In the midst of some troubling times, Elisa shows us the light in her account from Iberodocs’ closing night.

by cinetopia | March 5, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

Betty’s back from Berlinale – here are her dispatches from the field.

by cinetopia | February 12, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

Elisa gives us her in-depth take on this year’s Oscars ceremony.

by cinetopia | February 6, 2020 | Blog | 0 Comments

In our new feature article, Betty Stojnić explores the positive effects of film networking through our first session of 2020.

by cinetopia | January 28, 2020 | Blog | 2 Comments

Our newest contributor Elisa Teneggi takes a look at the Chinese Visual Festival’s recent visit to Edinburgh.

by Luka Vukos | December 16, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

Part two of our favourite films of 2019, including Joker, Marriage Story, and The Irishman.

by Luka Vukos | December 12, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

Part one of our favourite films of 2019, based on the UK calendar of releases.

by Luka Vukos | July 4, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

Takeaways from our recent post-production masterclass, with full audio recording.

by cinetopia | June 25, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

Takeaways from the EIFF Youth – opening events, Pride March, and things to come…

by Luka Vukos | May 28, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

In the last few years, a new group of filmmakers has emerged across the UK, including Scotland. From an output consisting of both short and feature-length productions, their films are dark, strange, sparse in dialogue and imbued with an aura of ambiguity and...

by cinetopia | May 6, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

by Serena Scateni Think of Italian cinema and the first names popping to mind are the well-known, glorified ones of the likes of Antonioni, Fellini, Monicelli, Bertolucci, and so on. As the same goes for any other country-specific cinema, charting the undiscovered...

by Luka Vukos | May 1, 2019 | Blog | 0 Comments

“As a child, I went to the cinema for the atmosphere: I loved the noise […] and the way the people went out into the street – men and women stunned by the spectacle.” – Federico Fellini On May 10th, Cinetopia will screen Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso and a...