CROMARTY Film Festival opens next week with a programme curated by Glasgow Short Film Festival beamed onto the side of the Black Isle town’s lighthouse while viewers warm themselves by roaring braziers.
The “small but mighty” festival screens films in unusual spaces, such as an ex slaughterhouse on the beach, an old buoy store and the home of local cinephile Ben Leyshon, who’ll host a free screening of Wim Wenders’s magnificent Salt Of The Earth in his living room.
Highlights include best-selling crime author Denise Mina discussing the enduring terror conjured by Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton’s 1950s thriller The Night Of The Hunter, a talk by Oscar and BAFTA-nominated sound recordist Stuart Wilson and directors Zara Balfour and Vicki Lesley introducing some of their favourite films.
Source: Cromarty Film Festival to project screenings onto lighthouse | The National