Edinburgh Film Guild honoured by Edinburgh International Film Festival
The world's longest continuously running film society, Edinburgh Film Guild, recently celebrated its 80th birthday in an event honoured by Edinburgh International Film Festival. The festival, along with the Edinburgh Filmhouse, has was set up by the society in 1947. BFFS chair Donna Anton travelled north of the border to offer our congratulations and attend a special screening of the John Grierson documentary Drifters.
In the image to the right, Donna Anton gets a history lesson from Jim Dunnigan of the Edinburgh Film Guild. The header Jim points to reads: '1939: The educated middle classes discover the cinema.'
