Screen Scotland has raised hopes that the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will be revived, after its acquired the intellectual property rights to the event.
The national body for the film and television industry announced the deal with the administrators of the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI), the charity that previously ran the festival and which collapsed in early October.
The future of the Edinburgh Filmhouse and Belmont Filmhouse are both still in the balance, but Screen Scotland has been in discussions with administrators and other partners to explore options for cultural cinema programme activity in both Edinburgh and Aberdeen, as well as the possibility of a 2023 edition of Edinburgh’s film festival.
