Edinburgh Film Festival, Film

A look at the New World themed theatre productions showing at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival.

One of the less visible activities of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) is its its year-round programme of education and outreach. Around 1,000 young people are participating in workshops and projects this year, that explore the cultural diversity of performers and the ideas raised in the Edinburgh's flagship arts festival.

The 2010 Edinburgh International Festival Fireworks Concert will this year celebrate "Music from the Movies", it was announced by Festival Director Jonathan Mills this morning at the launch of the EIF programme taking place in August and early September.

Songs For An Airless Room styles itself as somewhere between theatre and a piece of music to be performed. If this is fairly grandiose and self-regarding it nevertheless is an ambitious collaboration between live musical performance and screened film.

Blood and guts are on the menu at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April. The annual festival of popular science, which aims to educate through hands-on activities and topical talks, has a new floor at one of its main venues, the City Art Centre, devoted to the human body.

Glasgow's annual international film festival opens with the Scottish premiere of Micmacs, by Amélie and Delicatessen director Jean Pierre Jeunet and closes with US set thriller Legacy, which was co-produced by local production company Black Camel and stars The Wire's Idris Elba.

As the theatre packed to the sound of speakeasy style music, that jivey, jazzy stuff of another era that creates such an atmosphere of smoky, sleazy anticipation, it seemed the scene was being set

The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like it: "the largest show on Earth" they say. The latest stats seem to bear that out: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009 saw 34,265 performances of 2,098 shows at 265 venues. It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the longest continuously run film festival in the world, moved to a new fortnight-long run in June in 2008.

Want to be in television? The Edinburgh International Television Festival is looking for participants in its scheme The Network, a free event in Edinburgh taking place over four days in August 2010 (from 26th to 29th).

Five-day festival of new theatre works, workshops, discussions, and other events exploring the intersection of puppetry, physical theatre and animation.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival and Filmhouse today announced the departure of Ginnie Atkinson (second from left) to pursue new projects.

Ok, let's just get one thing out the way first. The plot and the dialogue for this gobsmacking leviathan of a movie have clearly been scrawled on the back of a beer mat over a lunchtime pint or, in James Cameron’s case, more likely on the back of a White Star Line napkin while downing a pint of organic wheatgrass juice (apparently it helped with his ‘high energy, must-stay-awake’ antics when creating that other blue-tinged world in Titanic).

Thugs, footmen, dignitaries, doctors, and ladies of the night are being sought for a new comedy feature film about Edinburgh's famous grave-robbers-turned-murderers Burke and Hare. Universal Extras are holding auditions for the parts at the Tolbooth in Stirling on Thursday 17th December from 9am to 5pm (people can turn up any time on the day according to the announcement).

As part of the St Andrew's Do events, celebrating St. Andrew's Day, Edinburgh Filmhouse will screen three free Scottish films including the 1945 cinematic classic I Know Where I’m Going!, British period drama Mrs Brown starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly, and the inspirational tale of legendary Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, The Flying Scotsman.

The One Ensemble & Sarah Kenchington will perform the world premiere of a suite of works inspired by the story of James Duthie. Duthie, a profoundly deaf Aberdeenshire man, cycled solo on a 3000 mile return trip to the far north of Europe in 1951. Sadly he was killed in a mysterious road accident in 1965.

The 7th Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival returns to the Capital from 15-18 October, with controversial American climber Timmy O'Neill topping the bill. O'Neill, 40, hails from Boulder, Colorado and has made his name in the extreme climbing discipline of ‘buildering' which involves climbing city centre buildings and structures without a rope. ‘Slacklining' - walking along a rope strung between rock towers - is another of this extreme climber's favourite pastimes.

Take One Action - the UK's first major activist film festival - takes two this year.

Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival is an independent film festival which aims to inspire, enlighten and entertain outdoor enthusiasts, whether they are climbers, skiers or snowboarders, kayakers, BASE jumpers or explorers.

Daniel Depp is on a European tour to promote his debut novel Loser’s Town, a detective crime novel set in sun scorched Los Angeles.