The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is hoping to add a touch more class to its annual festival in June by moving its red carpet galas to the

The 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival is now open for submissions for its run on 17 to 28 June.

An award-winning producer of one of Scotland's most successful short films Cry For Bobo, has released a free guidebook for anyone looking to get their short film to a wider audience.

City film buffs and film researchers are being called on to attend the 3rd Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference (EIFAC).

The small, bi-annual conference, which takes place at the Filmhouse between March 26th and 27th 2009, looks at a wide range of cinematic audiences from contemporary Taipai to popular Scottish audiences in the years 1896-1939, from babies to baby boomers.

Former Edinburgh International Film Festival director, author, television presenter, producer and one of the most knowl

Edinburgh is the 6th most spectacular film location city in the world, according to a poll conducted by Sky Movies HD of around 1,000 film fans. At the top of the list came New York City followed by London and Rio De Janeiro in joint 2nd place, then Paris, Florence and Barcelona.

John Landis, the veteran director who made blockbuster movies Animal House, Trading Places and the Blues Brothers, is lined up to make a black comedy for Ealing Studios about Edinburgh's most famous serial killers Burke and Hare.

A short film about the Garvald Centre bakery has won a $75,000 (£46,400) award at the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi.

An Edinburgh-set film premiering at the London Film Festival this month pits characters at either end of the city's social spectrum against each other in a deadly thriller. New Town Killers, which screens at the Leicester Square Odeon on 28 and 30 October and later this month at the Aberfeldy Film Festival, stars Dougray Scott and Alistair Mackenzie as two wealthy hedge fund managers in Edinburgh who get their kicks by hunting people down across the city.

The Cameo Cinema will be hosting a three-and-a-half hour live cinecast coverage of the Secret Policeman's Ball on Saturday

Take One: Action! is the UK's first major film festival all about people and movies that are changing the world. The festival celebrates Scotland's global connections - from South Africa to Nicaragua - and explores global challenges in which Scotland has a vital role to play - from climate change to the rules about how poor nations trade.

The Edinburgh Filmhouse is showcasing eight films from the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival between 1 and 28 August.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival today confirmed that actor Robert Carlyle has accepted the role of Festival Patron

Completely against my predictions (I plumped for Duane Hopkins Better Things), the prolific and ever popular Shane Meadows (having come close once before) wins the Michael

I have it on very good authority that to include the words 'Mae West' and 'Smelly Feet' into my blog and its title will ensure it thousands of hits in a matter of seconds so let's call this particular blog entry a social experiment. Now let's just skip that madness and get back to the real biscuit in hand - the very last official day

EIFF Blog - Day 10. I racked up another Michael Powell Award contender last night in the shape of Matthew Thompson's debut feature Dummy.

A quick update. Since scribing a few words back there in my last blog on Better Things, I ought to tell you that I also saw Helen, also in contention for the Michael Powell award and Wall-E

Well I have an hour to kill so I might as well kill it with a wee update. I'm racing now to finish seeing all the Michael Powell award contenders before the winner is announced

It's Day 8 of the Edinburgh Film Festival and time for another blog around the block. Yesterday proved to be a more fruitful venture with two great films in a row and a rain sodden rooftop party for the festival to thank Scottish Screen (the government funded agency for film in Scotland) for its continued support