About a Band has been selected and will be screened at the Nepal Folk Music Film Festival in Kathmandu.
The three day festival with the theme “Music for Life, Music for Survival” will be hosted by the Music Museum of Nepal in Kathmandu between Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November 2011. Each day will be dedicated to a different foreign musicologist.
The festival is the first of its kind in Nepal.
Breadmakers is to be screened at the 9th Sprout Film Festival New York on Saturday 30th April and Sunday May 1st 2011.
The Sprout Film Festival takes place between Friday 29th April and Sunday 1st May 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and this year they will be screening 50 unique films from 16 different countries.
The Sprout Film Festival was founded in 2003 and is programmed and supported by Sprout, a NYC-based non-profit organisation, dedicated to bringing innovative programming to people with developmental disabilities.
You can view Breadmakers at the Sprout Touring Film Festival YouTube page.
About A Band is to be screened as part of Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture Festival.
The Ceilidh Culture Festival brings together a large number of contributors from all over Edinburgh and beyond, for a real celebration of all that is wonderful about the grass roots traditional arts in Scotland. With more than 30 contributing organisations, Ceilidh Culture proudly showcases local talent alongside international acts.
About A Band will be shown at McDonald Road Community Library on Tuesday 12th April 2011 at 10.15am. The screening will be followed by music from the Columcille Ceilidh Band.
For more details click here.
Breadmakers is to be screened at the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival which takes place between the 11th – 20th March 2011.
The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival is a leading European Documentary Festival since its inception in 1999. Through its tributes and retrospectives, the festival focuses on filmmakers with unique cinematic voices, internationally renowned for their contribution to the documentary genre.
Breadmakers Director, Yasmin Fedda, will be travelling to the Film Festival.
A nice review from Alison Rowat of The Herald newspaper dated 17th February 2011.
"Meet another combo, this time a Scots one, in Jim Hickey’s short but uplifting documentary About a Band (***). The Columcille Ceilidh Band from Edinburgh is mainly made up of musicians with learning difficulties. As Hickey follows them from gig to gig it’s plain that, like every other band, the CCB are in it for the sheer joy of playing and the camaraderie of the road. N/C 18+, Wednesday, 1.30pm, GFT."
