The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006

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The Edinburgh International Film Festival 2006

The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman is based on the remarkable true story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree (played by Johnny Lee Miller) who stunned the international cycling world in 1993 when, as an unemployed amature from deepest Ayrshire, he smashed the world one hour record on his own revolutionary design - which he constructed out of scrap metal and parts of a washing machine - only to have his title stripped from him.

Niall Fulton the first to walk the red carpet at the start of the Edinburgh International Festival

Actress Laura Fraser

Laura Fraser

Actor Billy Boyd

Graeme Obree - on who the story is based

Douglas MacKinnon with wife Mandy

Shane Danielson Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival with guests

Graeme Obree

Actor Billy Boyd

The cast from 'The Flying Scotsman

The first minister of Scotland Jack McConnell being interviewed

Snow Cake

Snow Cake is a film about friendship, trust, snow, acceptance, obsessive behaviour, a dog called Marilyn and about the power of friendship, no matter how eccentric, to change our lives and heal our hearts.

Sigourney Weaver with Shane Danielson Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Sigourney Weaver with a diamond lifetime achievement award

JK Rowling and husband going to see the film premier

Sigourney Weaver with Alan Rickman arriving for the film premier of Snow Cake

Sigourney Weaver with Alan Rickman

Steve Coogan Executive Producer of the film Snow Cake

Steve Coogan, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman

Steve Coogan, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman sitting on the stairs of the Dominion cinema

Sigourney Weaver giving a wave to the fans

Sigourney Weaver signing autographs for the fans

The Lives of the Saints

When an errand boy for a small time crook, Mr Karva quite literally stumbles across an abandoned child, he believes he discovered an angel.  Like the oracle, the silent child seems to be able to tell the future and fulfil people's dreams.  Karva's step son uses him to win bets, but soon everyone wants  some of the action and father is pitted against son, and friend against friend, as greed lust and power spiral out of control.

Director Rankin

Director Chris Cottam

Director Chris Cottam, Rankin and writer Tony Grisoni

Actor Bronson Webb

Actor David Leon

Actress Emma Pierson

Actors Bronson Webb, David Leon and Emma Pierson

Tony Grisoni writer and actor David Leon

David Leon, Bronson Webb and Emma Pierson

Reel Life: Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron and Shane Danielson Artistic Director going into the cinema

Charlize Theron at the Edinburgh International Film Festival for Reel Life

Charlize Theron giving a wave to her fans

Jindabyne

Irish expatriate Stewart Kane lives in a small village in Australia called Jindabyrne.  On a fishing trip in the mountains with his three friends, he discovers the body of a young female in the river.  They decide against reporting the discovery immediately, preferring to continue with their fishing.  However, on their return they are met by anger and incomprehension from the local community.

Gabriel Byrne as Stewart Kane

Birds of Heaven

Fraser James and Elaine DeLatour

Director Elaine DeLatour

Actor Fraser James

Kevin Smith at conference for Uk Premier of Clerks II

Kevin Smith Director writer

Kevin Smith Director writer at a conference for Clerks II

East of Havana

Yearning for hip hop unburdened with bling and slick over production?  Follow Mikki Magyori and Soandry of el Cartel, a collective of hip hop artists who operate outside of Cuba's government controlled music industry.  These three friends are not just consuming hip hop, but harnessing its power to relay their own raw messages of experience, emotion and revolution.  East of Havana follows these young Cuban rappers as they prepare to participate in the 2004 state run hip hop festival in Havana.  In the process, the filmmakers explore the three friends' struggles, desires and wry observations of life in Castro's Cuba.

Emilia Menocal Director, Charlize Theron, Producer, Juaretsl Saizarbitoria Director 'East of Havana'

Charlize Theron at East of Havana

Clerks II UK Premier

Never before have so many done so little and been so raucously funny doing it.  In "Clerks II: The second coming," New Jersey mini mart clerks and best friends Dante Hicks and Randal Graves are force to find new jobs in the fast food universe - and they're bringing their in your face attitudes, outrageous vulgarities and unbridled love of screwing with the customers

Kevin Smith at Uk premier Clerks II

Kevin Smith and Jennifer Schwalbach Smith at Clerks II UK Premier

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait is a portrait of Zinedine Zidane, one of the greatest players in the history of football.  In this film the viewers will be plunged into all facets of the universe, the psychology and the body of an athlete in action - an incomparable and breathtaking experience that has never been tried.

Film Director Phillipe Pareno

Film Director Douglas Gordon

Phillipe Pareno and Douglas Gordon

Little Miss Sunshine UK Premier

Little Miss Sunshine is an American family road comedy that shatters the mould.  Brazenly satirical and deeply human, the film introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in cinema history:  the Hoovers who's trip to a pre-pubescent beauty pageant results not in only in comic mayhem but in death, transformation and a look at the surprising rewards of being losers in a winning crazed culture.  A runaway hit at the Sundance Film Festival where it played to standing to standing ovations, the film strikes a nerve with everyone who's ever been awestruck by how their muddled families seem to make it after all.

Camper vans at the cinema

Director Jonathan Dayton

Director Valerie Faris

Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Producer Mark Turtletaub with Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and producer Peter Saraf

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Producer Mark Turtletaub with Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and producer Peter Saraf

The Jury of the Michael Powell Award

The Edinburgh International Film Festival the longest continually running film festival in the world, announced the members of the Michael Powell Award jury that will preside over the landmark 60th Edition.  The 2006 jury includes award winning John Hurt who will serve as Jury Chair, Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, Irish writer John Banville, acclaimed Scottish Director Michael Canton Jones and rock Chrissie Hyned.

Named in honour of one of Britain's most original filmmakers, and inaugurated in 1993.  The Michael Powell Award, which is sponsored by the United Kingdom Film Council, is given to the best new British feature film in the festival.  Judged by an international jury, the award celebrates imagination and creativity in British filmmaking.  Last year's winner was the Academy Award winner for best foreign language film "Tsotsi".

Jury Member John Hurt

Jury Member Lone Scherfig

Jury Member Chrissie Hyned

Jury Member Michael Canton Jones

Jury Member John Banville

The Jury  Members: John Hurt, John Banville, Chrissie Hyned, Michael Canton Jones, Lone Scherfig

Reel Life at the Edinburgh International Film Festival with Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Arthur Penn Director of Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man guest at Brian De Palma talk

An autograph of an elephant man mask for an autograph hunter by John Hurt

Actor John Hurt and Film Director Arthur Penn guests at the Brian De Palma talk

Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons is a quirky and heart warming comedy which sees Ben as a shy teenager living in London trying to escape from the clutches of his religious mother.  He finally gets his chance when he meets the retired and delighfully eccentric actress Evie, who whisks him off to Edinburgh in charming, rights of passage road trip, exposing Ben to life, girls and the open road

Jeremy Brock, Rupert Grint and Julie Walters

Rupert Grint and Julie Walters

Rupert Grint

Julie Walters

Julie Walters giving it the thumbs up

Fans gathering for the premier of Driving Lessons

Rupert Grint signing autographs for the fans

Rupert Grint relaxing for a photograph

Jeremy Brock relaxing for a photograph

Julie Walters posing with her fans

Jeremy Brock, Rupert Grint and Julie Walters on the red carpet premier

Jeremy Brock, Rupert Grint and Julie Walters at the Dominion Cinema

An Inconvenient Truth [The final film of the festival for 2006]

With wit, smarts and hope, An Inconvenient Truth ultimately brings home Al Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue, rather it is the biggest moral challenge our global civilisation.

The Lord Provost of Edinburgh Lesley Hinds going in for the film and lecture

Al Gore at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Al Gore being interviewed on his views

Al Gore talking to the television cameras

Al Gore being candid about the film

 

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