News / Screenplay programme
A GAME of Thrones star and an actress who featured in hit 2014 movie Birdman will be among the names in the programme for this year’s Screenplay festival when it is unveiled on Friday.
The annual Shetland Arts event, which is being curated by film critic Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams, will be held between 28 August and 6 September.
The full schedule will be released on Friday and it will confirm appearances from the likes of actor, writer and director Mark Gatiss, who co-created the TV series Sherlock and has featured in hit show Game of Thrones.
Actress Lindsay Duncan, who has appeared in the Oscar-winning Birdman and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, will also visit the isles.
They will be joined on the programme by the likes of director Carol Morley and Pulp keyboardist Candida Doyle, who has Shetland family connections and will speak after Pulp – A Film About Life, Love and Supermarkets.
In addition to the numerous screenings – which will include showings of local films – there will be Q&As, workshops and a quiz.
Tickets for the Screenplay events will go on sale from 10am on Friday 14 August from the Shetland Box Office.
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