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The Peacemaker Corps/PSGFF showcases socially aware young filmmakers from around the world to tell their story, their struggles, their opportunity, and their celebrations.

Watch the 10th Annual Peace in the Streets Global Film Festival (PSGFF) Awards!

Thebigspace

a cura di Diana Eugeni

publisher Antonio Vergara Meersohm

Logos, Modena 2006, 192 pagine, 25x28cm, ISBN 88-7940-567-5

euro 28,00

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Lo studio Thebigspace disegna e crea esperienze stabilendo un legame emozionale fra marchi, spazi e i loro clienti. Per Thebigspace creare un'esperienza significa comunicare, far passare un messaggio in maniera infinitamente più efficace ed incisiva, come una combinazione di sensazioni e reazioni che provocano una sorta di immersione nei sensi e nell'intelletto. Lo spazio dove le persone, le tecnologie e i luoghi si incontrano è il terreno di Thebigspace, là dove esperienze intelligenti, innovative e fruttuose possono essere sviluppate

......un gruppo di architetti, film maker, interaction designer, product designer.....esperienze intuitive.... multi-sensorial environments....

Happy Birthday Gillies MacKinnon, born in Glasgow in 1948.

After studying mural painting at Glasgow School of Art, he became an art teacher and professional cartoonist, and spent six months travelling with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara, what an adventure that must have been! 

He studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in the 1970s and the National Film and Television School in the early 1980s. His graduation short Passing Glory, an austere recreation of the Glasgow of his youth, was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize. He then went on two direct two projects for BBC 2’S Screen Two, Small Faces, about three teenage brothers,  in a downtrodden section of 1960’s Glasgow and The Grass Arena the true story of John Healy, a boxer turned alcoholic turned chess master portrayed by Mark Rylance. The film won several prizes, including the Edinburgh Film Festival’s Michael Powell Award for Best British Film.

MacKinnon also directed notable TV shows including, Trial and Retribution and George Gently. More recently he directed the TV film Torvill and Dean, and the latest version of Whisky Galore.

I recommend his latest work, a film called The Last Bus…….Life is a journey and The Last Bus takes pensioner Tom Harper (Timothy Spall) on an epic trip from the remote village he calls home, back to the place where he was born.   The film also stars our very own Phyllis Logan, in it Spall uses his free bus pass to travel from John O'Groats to Land’s End in Cornwall, It's a joyful film that is also sad in places.

The second birthday boy is Iain Smith was born in Glasgow in 1949, and graduated from the London Film School in 1971.

He worked in London for several years before returning to his native Scotland to make “My Childhood”, for the British Film Institute, the first of the award winning trilogy.

He formed his own production company in partnership with Jon Schorstein and produced television commercials, documentaries, children’s feature films and low budget dramas, and in 1978 production managed Bertrand Tavernier’s “Deathwatch” starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel. A year later he joined David Puttnam and Hugh Hudson to make “Chariots of Fire” starring Ian Charleson and Ben Cross.

Smith has worked with some of the best actors in Hollywood, including Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly, Robert De Niro in the Mission and Spygame with Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. His most famous Scottish work is arguably as an  associate producer of Local Hero. He alson worked on some Hollywood titles including The Fifth Element, The A Team(movie) and The Killing Fields.