We have even more good news to report from our Scholarship winner Brian Coffey, Sigma Films and their new partners Blinder Films.

The latest creation CITADEL, an Irish/Scottish horror film, premiered at SXSW festival this month and picked up the "Midnight Audience Award". This obviously caught the eye of a range of theatre and entertainment groups, but it was Cinedigm and New Video who secured the U.S distribution rights for Citadel.

The world famous SXSW festival in Austin, Texas was in full swing this past weekend, and in amongst the exciting new productions from emerging film makers, was one from our very own scholarship winner, Brian Coffey.

Last month Brian attended the Berlinale as part of The Cutty Sark Film Scholarship. He used this opportunity to raise the profile of his production company Sigma Films and their latest film CITADEL.

Brian looks back at his time in Berlin:

"The one thing nobody warns you about, yet as soon as you return home everyone wants to talk to you about, is the inevitable cold that everyone catches while at a festival that then hits you like a ton of bricks as soon as your plane touches down. 

I can only think that this cold is a result of the lack of sleep I have been suffering, due to the late nights and early morning meetings in Berlin...

Read Brian's blog post from his time in Berlin:

"Having the opportunity to attend the Berlinale and EFM is enabling me to promote the company I work for as a whole as well as raise the profile of particular projects and talent we are nurturing...

... and It's been a great 48 hours.

After receiving a great deal of strong applications from a wide range of talented individuals, we are proud to announce our first Cutty Sark Film Scholarship winner of 2012 - Brian Coffey.

Brian is a producer for Sigma Films, a leading film production agency based in Glasgow. Sigma  have worked on a number of productions including Perfect Sense, Donkeys, Red Road, Young Adam and Hallam Foe.

Take a film, throw in some bikes, add an (energetic) audience and what do you get? Bike powered cinema.

On Thursday June 23rd, Cutty Sark and EIFF launched Bike Powered Cinema, screening the film Belleville Rendezvous 5 times over the course of the day.

Filmmakers, take note!

Cutty Sark, together with the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), is excited to announce a short film competition!

Named after the famous tea Clipper, Cutty Sark has always had a sense of adventure and a pioneering spirit at its heart. It's this personality of the brand - The Spirit of Adventure - that we are looking for contestants to capture in a 60-90 second short film.