Catriona Macinnes
Writer-director
Scotland, UK
Catriona studied performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow before gaining a masters of fine art in film practice.
Her graduation film, I’M IN AWAY FROM HERE, premiered in competition at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. A CUILLIN RISING premiered at the 55th BFI London Film Festival. Her last short film, HOWLS, was supported through the BFI Network and was nominated for Best Short at Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017.
She has been a participant at Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Talent Lab, Berlinale Talents and Toronto International Film Festival Lab. She has written two feature film screenplays, GIFT FROM GOD and CARLA with the help of development support and/or residency participation.
Project
Gift from God
“Gift from God” is a psychological drama about 14-year-old, SHAW, who in the process of discovering herself destroys her ‘happy’ family. After years of travelling around Eastern Europe with her bohemian parents, they arrive to work at a remote and tranquil smallholding in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. Shaw meets a local boy, SORIN and as they grow closer, she finds solace in him, his normal family life. Through doing a self-search on his computer using her real name, Seána, she discovers she is now presumed dead by her biological family back in Scotland. Disturbed, Shaw begins to probe and provoke her parents about the past while making an anonymous contact on social media with her real uncle from home. When her the father returns from a sheep pilgrimage with a plan to put things right, Shaw remorsefully confesses her contact from her uncle in Scotland and the family drive off the mountain, still desperate to avoid the inevitable consequences.
