Northern Lights Blog

DVD out now!

It’s finally here, and just in time for Christmas too!

The long-awaited DVD of We Are Northern Lights is now available, priced £9.99 plus post & packaging. We only have a limited number of copies, so make sure you don’t miss…

Calling North Americans…come and celebrate St. Andrews Day with us!

 

The journey continues for the film, after so many great Scottish screenings, we are very pleased to announce that to celebrate the Scottish national day of St Andrews day, we are digitally releasing We Are Northern Lights across North America, including…

Share the people’s movie online – everyone wins!

Seen the film in the cinema and enjoyed it? Now you can watch it online!

We hope you agree that We Are Northern Lights paints an inspiring picture of Scotland.

Created as a result of mass participation, Scotland’s first ever crowdsourced…

Big Screen return with BAFTA Scotland!

As we write, our free community screenings are happening up and down the country, but this month we have some even bigger news…

We’ve been nominated for a Bafta!

Our nomination for the BAFTA Scotland Audience Award was announced last…

Last Call for Free Screenings!

Last Call for Free Screenings!
Last month we announced our plans to run free community screenings across Scotland, bringing the people’s home movie back to its roots.
We’ve had a great take up so far, with screenings…

Screen Machine mobile cinema van comes to Isle of Eigg, Scotland

Would your community like to screen our film?

We’re bringing it all back home this autumn

Well folks we had yet another magical screening the other week up on the gorgeous Isle of Eigg and that just about wraps things up for the summer now.

Our Screen Machine tour went…

Screen Machine van heads to Highlands for 6 week tour of 'the people's movie' We Are Northern Lights

Thank You & Get Ready to Roll…

What an exciting month it has been!

Our national Cineworld release could not have gone better. We punched well above our weight at the box office, outperforming the likes of Disney’s ‘Chimpanzee’ and Pedro Almodovar’s ‘I’m So Excited.’ So much so…

Your World, Our World, Cineworlds!

We Are Northern Lights will open in Cineworld cinemas throughout
Scotland on Friday the 3rd of May.

Cineworld will screen the film for a full week; daytime and evening,
in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Falkirk.

This is historic news – we are the…

DIRECTOR NICK HIGGINS AND SOME OF HIS 121 CO-DIRECTORS TAKE TO THE RED CARPET FOR THE PREMIERE OF WE ARE NORTHERN LIGHTS AT GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Fiona Hyslop, supported Director Nick Higgins and some of his 121 co-directors today (Sat 16 Feb) as they took to the red carpet at the Glasgow Film Festival for the premiere of We Are Northern Lights – Scotland’s first mass participation film and a unique self-portrait of Scotland by the Scots. They were joined by some of the project’s supporters including television celebrity, Sanjeev Kohli, Creative Scotland’s Director of Creative Development, Iain Munro and Head of The Mental Health Foundation Scotland, Isabella Goldie. The feature length documentary will be shown around the country from March onwards. For details please see Press Release.

Bright Lights, Big Cities!

Yesterday was the last regional premiere and it has been one heck of a journey.

From the packed world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival to the sold out screenings of Edinburgh, the funny guys of Aberdeen to the belly laughs…

Highlands & Islands tour!

After the wonderful success and packed screenings of the regional premieres, it is with great pleasure that we announce the next round of rural screenings!

We are very chuffed to be bringing the film to some of Scotlands most beautiful independent…

Calling all Musicians!

Now that submissions for the Northern Lights film have closed, all we are looking for a soundtrack!

We are now looking for Scottish musicians to contribute original music to be used as part of the final film.

If you’d like to contribute,…

And the winners are…

After considerable deliberation the judges have returned with their decisions.

So without further ado, here are our winners and runners-up!
Peoples Choice Award Winner (£2500)
Bubble TV – The Gaudie & May Dip 2012

Congratulations to the winners of the…

News from the edit suite!

As you all know, we are making a film about Scotland as lived, experienced and filmed by you, the people of Scotland. Quite what such a unique production process will result in we are still discovering, but it has been…

We Are… nearly finished!

As you know, we have been working away in the edit for the last few months, but now we can finally say that we are nearly finished!

This week we will begin work on the sound mix and by early December…

Festive Cheers!!!

As you perhaps already know, we are absolutely chuffed to be able to say that the ‘We Are Northern Lights’ feature documentary is finished! We are already busy organising screenings across the country and we will be announcing exciting news…

Show Time!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the world premiere of
the We Are Northern Lights feature film!

After months (and months!) of workshops, filming, submissions, editing and mixing, the big moment has finally arrived. We are very proud of the…

121 Co-Directors..We Salute You!

These are the 121 directors, submitters, and creators of all the footage which make up the feature filmWe Are Northern Lights .

Their submissions were selected on the basis of what worked best with the final film, in narrative, style, and…

Glasgow Film Festival Premiere

Saturday was the completely sold out World Premiere of We Are Northern Lights at the Glasgow Film Festival, and what a day it was!

We were honoured to have the film introduced by Scotland’s Minister for Culture, Fiona Hyslop and…

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