City Director Makes Venice Film Debut

A YOUNG city filmmaker rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s biggest directors yesterday at the Venice Film Festival, where her film is being launched.

Catriona MacInnes, 29, is the only Scottish representative at the festival, with her short film I’m In Away From Here.

The 22-minute film, inspired by two men in the street, will be competing for one of three prizes awarded by a jury at the festival.

It was shot in Edinburgh with a mixture of professional actors and amateurs, with the aim of appearing as naturalistic as possible.

Ms MacInnes, who studied at Napier University’s Screen Academy Scotland, said: “The main objective in making the film was to shoot it in a style that blurred the lines between documentary and fiction, not just by shooting with a hand-held camera, but also by directing the actors to deliver the drama within real locations alongside the people who regularly inhabited them.”

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