Aberdeenshire Film Office

deadline 19 Jan - Glasgow & Edinburgh but they pay for accommodation and other costs. Get your screen career moving..

🗣 Hit the Ground Running 🗣
📅 February/March 2026

Announcing Hit the Ground Running 2026 - a free 2-day course offering practical training and advice for those starting out in the Production, Assistant Director and Locations departments in film and TV, and we're inviting applications from all over Scotland.

Whether you’re in the early stages of your career and looking to secure your first role, or you’ve already gained a few credits and you’re refining your professional skills – we're here to help you with an honest overview and practical support.

More info & apply: https://bectuvision.org/events/hit-the-ground-running-26

Application deadline: 0900, Monday 19 January 2026

This course is free of charge and is supported by Screen Scotland and the BFI Skills Cluster Fund.
BECTU Vision is supported by Screen Scotland, Scottish Union Learning, and BBC in partnership with Bectu.

Glen Tanar is an amazing location for film & tv as we saw when Love is Blind came to the region.

From the "pods" to the Highlands, Glen Tanar Estate and Aboyne have taken centre stage in the global Netflix hit Love is Blind: UK. The estate is now hailing a massive "ripple effect" for local businesses, from florists to photographers, as fans flock to see where the magic happened.

Read more here: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0qG1W10

Open Call: Group Residency 2026

💥 SSW is delighted to invite applications for Group Residency 2026! 💥

Group Residency is a special time at SSW. It offers artists dedicated space and support for the development of their practice, through a series of inductions and intros to our facilities including ceramics, metal fabrication, blacksmithing and stonework. This is coupled with social spaces to support artists coming together for sauna, artists sharings, film nights, meals and walks in our rural site in north-east Scotland.

2026 Group Residencies will take place on the following dates in 2026:

Group Residency 1: 29 June – 24 July 2026
Group Residency 2: 3 August – 28 August 2026
Group Residency 3: 21 September – 16 October 2026

Group Residency at SSW is always experimental, collective and supported by SSW’s skilled team.

Link in bio 🔗 to find out more and apply

SSW.ORG.UK/GROUP-RESIDENCY-2026

Image credit:

Image description: People are working in the SSW metal workshop. On the left someone is welding infront of a red satefy screen. On the far right two people are standing behind a metal welding table. A semi-transparent red square with the text 'OPEN CALL: GROUP RESIDENCY 2026' is overlaid on the image.

Lovely extract from A View From The Terrace when BBC Scotland came and filmed Adam Golebiewski in Banff and Macduff earlier this year. Very moving and inspiring.

Resilience | A View From The Terrace “You’ve just got to get up and keep going.”Carrying on after tragedy.Watch A View From The Terrace on BBC iPlayer http://bbc.in/3W4CaFX ...

Experienced and emerging animators, here's one for you - a new Micro Animation Festival in Aberdeen is looking for submissions from northeast creatives.

Deadline Tuesday 21st October!

📢New Creative Commission
Live Life Aberdeenshire’s Cultural team is looking for a socially engaged photographer to drive forward the work of the New Faces New Focus network as part of ‘Going Places’, Art Fund’s new UK-wide programme that aims to engage and involve underrepresented audiences with museum collections through high-quality, collaborative touring exhibitions and public programmes. This commission has been made possible through the generous support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Julia Rausing Trust.

The network will use socially engaged photography to connect newly formed and isolated communities with their historic collections. The work will take place over 9 months between January and September 2026 in various locations across Aberdeenshire.

Sound interesting? Further information available at this link:
https://opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/index/7d822f5e-b443-4a37-b366-791e0dd06bc3/?Ref=%2Fhome%2Fsearch%2F%3Fq%3Dphotographer

🚨Application deadline: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Photo: Herring girls at unknown location, c.1880 (ABHER:7546P)

Pull down the curtains and fire up the sewing machine....because if Maria could do it 60 years ago, so can we!

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of THE SOUND OF MUSIC its be remastered in 4K and been given a cinema release.

Lederhosen also welcome!

www.number30.org to book