Reece Cargan selected by Screen International as 'Rising Star Scotland'

Bombito producer Reece Cargan has been selected by Screen International as one of the 11 'Rising Stars Scotland'. This programme is designed to identify and promote the next generation of Scottish film talent to the international industry.

Image courtesy of Rob McDougall / Screen International

Rising Stars

Screen International, in association with Screen Scotland, collaborated to create this new talent spotlight for Scottish filmmakers. The collaboration is Rising Stars Scotland.

Screen International, with almost two decades of finding the world’s top creative film talent in the UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow, has selected ten up-and-coming film actors, directors, producers and writers who are on the cusp of their first major professional breakthrough.

The programme

Each Rising Star will be matched with an industry mentor who can help move them on their next career stage. Reece will be matched with his mentor very soon.

Screen Scotland will work with the participants to offer a bespoke package of professional development over 12 months. Support offered will focus on connecting talent to key decision-makers and influencers to elevate their international profile and progress career objectives.

The selection was made by Screen’s chief film critic and reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan, who has overseen the trade publication’s UK talent selection for the last 12 years.

Reece Cargan

I am honoured to be part of this impressive lineup and can't wait to get started on the programme with my cohort and with my mentor.

I am excited to see where this goes and thrilled to be able to gain more momentum with my current slate of projects.

Screen Scotland Executive Director Isabel Davis:

“We want to share our excitement about the next generation of exceptional Scottish talent coming through short film work and features in development and we know they deserve greater exposure.”

More information

Read the full article in Screen Daily and see the other 10 rising stars profiles.

GHOUL FRIENDS heads to Warsaw

Exciting news on our Young Adult TV series Ghoul Friends by writer Catherine Wignall. We are heading to Warsaw in September to pitch the project at Kids Kino Industry.

Writer Catherine and Producer Reece Cargan will head to Poland to pitch to commissioners and industry insiders.

Ghoul Friends

Teen influencer Mia puts her heart and soul on the line to save her ex-girlfriend from an angry ghost.

Background

The project was initially developed on the FLEX programme with Screen Yorkshire and further developed following the programme.

The project is being supported with development funding from the BFI Young Audience Content Fund. We are running a writers room at the end of August 2022 to further hone the series and then head to Poland to pitch.

Kids Kino

View the information page on the Kids Kino Industry website.

Get the pitch deck

For information on the project or to view the pitch deck please email reece@bombito.co.uk

'Clean' by Miranda Stern to premiere at 75th Edinburgh International Film Festival

We are pleased to reveal that 2 films produced by Bombito Productions will receive their world premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022. Miranda Stern's personal documentary 'Clean' and live action and animated film 'Who I am Now'.

Miranda Stern's very personal and moving documentary will be screening at the 75th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in a world premiere on 16 August 2022.

Clean:

A short and personal female-centred documentary about addiction and long-term recovery from it. This film weaves together observational and lyrical elements to take us into the challenging, deeply personal and relatively unknown world of recovery – along with the processes of care that follow in the years after a period of active addiction.

This is one couple’s journey together as they negotiate the world of recovery and how to plan for a future with so much uncertainty in it.

A female-centred film about addiction. And long-term recovery from it. Made by an addict. Not by an outsider pointing a camera at addicts struggling with relapses and failure and turning that struggle into entertainment for others.

Not focusing on the dark descent into heroin’s seedy underworld but rather taking us into the challenging, deeply personal, and unknown world of recovery and hope.

Most representations we see on these topics sensationalise a manic, animal-like desperation for the next fix, but rarely frame it in the context of why people are that way...

Miranda Stern

Screening date and tickets

Clean will screen as part of the programme ‘Shorts: Bridging The Gap - Tomorrow’.

You can watch the film on Tuesday 16 August 18:10 at Filmhouse 1.

Get tickets

You can buy tickets directly from Edinburgh International Film Festival website.

Miranda Stern

Miranda has worked as a self-shooting PD for the BBC and other broadcasters, as well as making campaign shorts, PSAs and immersive 60” films for Scottish Ensemble, UK Says No More, The Red Cross and others.

Her short drama ‘Revert’ was selected by the BFI Sharp Shorts scheme (2021), she came second place at 16 DAYS 16 FILMS and has had work screened at the Ch4 cinema in association with Film 4.

Further information

• Directed and Edited by Miranda Stern

• Cinematographer: Julyan Sinclair

• Producer: Reece Cargan

• Executive Producer: Sue Bourne

• Composer: Rotem Frimer

• Edit Consultant: Emiliano Battista

• Colourist and Online Editor Karolina Matela

• Sound Designer: Alina Ushakova

• Dubbing Mixer: Joseph Russell

Developed, supported and executive produced by the Scottish Documentary Institute's Bridging the Gap programme and Screen Scotland.

Screening or distribution requests

Please contact Alexandra via festivals@scotdoc.com

Screening of Bombito project 'Who I Am Now'

Who I Am Now will also be screening at its World Premiere at Edinburgh on 13th August. More details are available on the film and screening.