Creative Scotland today (17 May 2011) unveiled a £1million investment into four pilot initiatives that will test new approaches to increasing the distribution and appreciation of Scottish cultural content, develop new audiences and return greater value to Scottish companies from film activities.

Gair Dunlop’s twin-screen film installation about the fast reactor site at Dounreay is to be screened in Edinburgh, Caithness and London.

Celebrating Adam Ant’s forthcoming gig at Inverness Ironworks (Sun 22 May 2011), IG:LU in Inverness are hosting an exhibition of all things Adam Ant on Screen, featuring many of his film appearances and all his pop videos with Adam & The Ants.

One of Scotland’s newest Independent Film Festival, the Loch Ness Film Festival is back for a 2nd year. This year’s featival will take place from May 26-29th 2011 and will be screening short films from Scotland and around the world to feature films such as Dog Soldiers, Toy Story 3 and indie features the Scottish Comedy from Aberdeen, One Day Removals and the Falkirk Gangster flick The Cowboy Court.

TFC is a new club being set up in Thurso to bring cinema back to Caithness. Their first screening is Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona. It will be showing at the British Legion Club in Thurso on Saturday April 30th at 7.30pm.

An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 13-15 April 2011.

Pat Law explains her role and assesses the wider significance of Ian Stephen’s Is A Thing Lost … project.

Ian Stephen describes his thinking behind the events linked to the current an Lanntair exhibition, “Is a thing lost … if you know where it is?”.

The Uist Eco Film Festival is a new 3-day film festival (29 April – 1 May 2011) screening environmentally-themed international documentary and fiction film and video based at Balivanich Community Hall on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The main themes of the festival will be Climate Change and Sustainability in relation to island and maritime contexts in three strands – what we’ve got, how we stand to lose it & how we can change the situation.

Uist Eco Film Festival’s website was launched today (Monday 14 March 2011).