BEGINS Chris Marshall, in today’s Scotsman: “Television cameras are to be allowed in for sentencing in Scotland’s courts under a relaxation of the rules surrounding the filming of trials.
“Under a series of changes outlined yesterday, civil and criminal appeals can now be broadcast live, while some criminal trials can be filmed for documentary purposes.”
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BEGINS a media release posted on allmediascotland.com, by Media House: “Budding filmmakers have submitted a record-breaking number of entries to this year’s FilmG, MG ALBA’s national Gaelic short film competition.
“An amazing 79 films have been entered for this year’s competition, with 51 submissions in the Youth category and 28 adult entries.”
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AN awards competition, “celebrating the most effective and intelligent planning in the outdoor medium from the last 12 months”, has extended its deadline for entries to the sixth of next month.
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BEGINS the website, holdthefrontpage: “A report by the BBC says the Corporation will have to do more to provide local news amid ‘the decline of the regional press’.
“The ‘Future of News’ report, comissioned by BBC head of News, James Harding, claims 5,000 jobs have been axed across the regional press in the past decade.
“It argues that in future, BBC News will have move ‘beyond broadcasting’ to deliver on its ‘mission to inform’.”
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BEGINS Brian Ferguson, in The Scotsman: “Creative Scotland has admitted millions of pounds of extra funding need to be found to prevent the country’s film and television industry lagging further behind its rivals.
“Officials told a Holyrood inquiry into the ailing screen sector that Scotland is failing to compete with the likes of Northern Ireland and Wales because it does not have the financial muscle to attract large-scale international productions.”
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ALSO in The Scotsman today: “An Outer Hebridean tuna fishing skipper has become the unlikely star of a hit US TV show.
“Captain Angus Campbell, whose lilting accent is subtitled on the Outdoor Channel’s Trev Gowdy’s Monsterfish, landed a rare 515lb bluefin tuna off the Scottish coast back in 2013.
“This prompted sceptical American fishing expert, Fred Lavitma, to come and check out the situation in Scotland which is better known for its salmon and trout.”
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AND begins a media release posted on allmediascotland by Creative Scotland: “Scottish Film Talent Network (SFTN) has today announced the launch of their First Feature Development and Emerging Talent Shorts initiatives, alongside the 14 filmmaker teams selected for the New Talent Shorts programme.
“The SFTN initiative is worth £450,000 over the next 12 months – the biggest resource made available for new and emerging talent over the past six years, which represents a major step forward and will help find the next wave of Scotland’s international screen talent. The SFTN is part of the UK-wide BFI NET.WORK talent development initiative.”
Read more, here.
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THE website, inPublishing.co.uk notes Les Snowdon taking over the reins, as Scotland editor of The Times, here.
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