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Title: FESTIVAL

Reference number: 8121

Date: 2004

Director: d. Annie Griffin

Sponsor: UK Film Council, FilmFour and Scottish Screen

Production company: Young Pirate Films

Sound: sound

Certificate: 18

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 107.00 mins

Description: A mercilessly honest take on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the performers who take part. [synopsis from Young Films website]

Shotlist: In Festival, a comedy about the Edinburgh Festival, we get to know a lot of characters. Faith gets off a bus and starts handing out leaflets for her one-woman show. Sean, a famous comedian, is incredibly rude to a radio journalist, live on air. Micheline, a posh Edinburgh housewife, rents out her enormous flat to an experimental theatre group from Canada. She can't help spying on them from the close. At their house in the country, her husband and baby are waiting for her. Joan, the radio journalist, wants to sleep with the charming Irish comedian Tommy. Does he really like her or does he just want five stars this year? Will the alcoholic PA Petra go off the wagon after a row with her horrible boss Sean? Will the Comedy Award jury ever agree on a shortlist? Who is that beautiful girl comic Nicky flirting with now? Who will get an audience? Who will win an award? Who will find love, who is really talented and who will be the Next Big Thing? Festival is about that strange month of August when the whole world comes to Scotland to perform, to watch and to drink, and every show promises to be better than the last one. For one month a year, for some people, Edinburgh becomes the centre of the universe. [synopsis from BritFilms Catalogue]