Today (Monday, 7th March) the Celtic Media Festival unveils its full programme of events as 2011 marks the event’s 32nd year. The Festival is on countdown to 13th April when it will return to its birthplace of the Scottish Western Isles with a schedule crammed full of top talent.

I spend part of most Sundays reloading my MP3 player with a batch of BBC podcasts, to see me, like a sheep’s heid, through the week. A regular item is the ten minute Radio 4 slot ‘A Point of View’. The current contributor is the popular (or should that be ‘populist’?) philosopher Alain de Botton. […]

MG ALBA’s Gaelic online media shorts competition, FilmG, has this year had a record number of entries.

Cromarty, Black Isle, 3-5 December 2010.

Eden Court Theatre and Cinemas, 3-7 November 2010

Alexander Smith gets the lowdown on a scandal from the Dundee rapper turned author Gavin Bain

ALLAN HUNTER catches up with Fraserburgh film-maker Scott Graham ahead of a Cannes screening

IAN STEPHEN recounts the strange tale of his attempts to take part in Transitstation in Denmark – from Edinburgh.

BARRY GORDON catches up with Darren Manson to look at the chequered history and present prospects for cinema in Thurso.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies.