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  • Alistair Braidwood

The GFF 2021 Podcasts: The Iorram (Boat Song) Interview…

Updated: Mar 4, 2021



For the latest in out series of Glasgow Film Festival podcasts Ali spoke to director, producer, and cinematographer Alastair Cole to talk about his film Iorram (Boat Song), which is the first cinema documentary entirely in Scots Gaelic.


Alastair talks about the unusual structure of the film, the vital importance of audio archive, the different types of cinematography used, the problems with filming at sea, connecting stories across time, and so much more.


Here’s the trailer:



This series of podcasts are in conjunction with GFF 2021, where we talk to various filmmakers, directors, and others involved with this year’s films and events, and the best way to make sure you don’t miss any of our podcasts would be to subscribe – (see below).


If you are new round these parts there is quite a substantial back-catalogue of podcasts for you to discover. If you aren’t yet a subscriber you can do so, (or simply listen) at iTunes, on Podbean, with Spotify, by RSS (but you’ll need to have an RSS reader to do so) or on MixCloud


You can also download the podcast by clicking on the relevant link to the right of this post, or, if you want it right here, right now, you can listen on SoundCloud


..or on YouTube:



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