JURY 2017

Raymond Friel

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Raymond Friel is an award-winning screenwriter, author and playwright. He has written three feature films, THE CALCIUM KID, starring Orlando Bloom (produced by Working Title Films), BOTCHED, with Stephen Dorff (Winner of Best Film and Best Actor at the New York Horror Festival) and MOON DOGS (nominated by BAFTA Scotland for Best Film 2016, Winner of Best First International Feature at the Galway Film Fleadh and Best Film and Best Actor at the Newport Beach Film Festival, CA). Moon Dogs is due for release later this year.

His play, MORIARTY IS CRYING, won the Willy Russell Award for New Writing, while his short film script, MAD DOGS, was a prize-winner at the Jerwood Short Film Competition. A novel, ANIMAL LOVER, was published in 2013 by Luath press and a script based on this has recently been commissioned by the BBC.

He has also worked in radio – the BBC Scotland sitcom PLAYER – and written, produced and directed live comedy sketch shows for the Glasgow Comedy and West End Festivals. Previously he has developed a number of film and television projects for companies including Scottish Screen, Creative Scotland, the UK Film Council, Channel 4, Shine Entertainment and the BBC.

Brian Beadie

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Brian Beadie is a freelance journalist based in Glasgow, who has written extensively on music, film and contemporary art, across a variety of publications and websites. He has also worked with film festivals including Radical Film Network and Havana Glasgow Film Festival. As well as writing about films, he has also curated them, ranging from programmes examining the cinematic legacy of RD Laing to Pierre Clementi, and the Zanzibar Group, and most recently commissioning Ela Orleans to rescore Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee.

Rosy Barnes

Rosy is a writer and artist from Edinburgh.

With a varied arts background in creative writing and the visual arts, she brings an interest in story and structure along with a keen visual eye to the panel.

As a freelance reviewer/arts journalist, Rosy has written for many publications including The Irish Times, The Telegraph, Irish Theatre Magazine and The Dubliner Magazine, as well as reviewing books and film for over seven years for well-respected literary website, Vulpes Libris.

Rosy has written for theatre, radio and screen, including comic play, BIMBO (Ireland/Scotland tour), and THE DOG HOUSE produced by RTE radio (shortlisted for the PJ O’Connor Award and RTE’s Pick of the Week). She was one of the writers on ALCHEMY, produced by Jemma Rodgers for Kudos/Brown-Eyed Boy and Shine TV.

Her novel, SADOMASOCHISM FOR ACCOUNTANTS (published by Marion Boyars Publishers) was called “refreshingly irreverent” and “a fine comic novel” by The Scotsman.

Rosy is also a painter and has worked in visual arts curation and project management, with her work exhibited at various group shows and at The Union Gallery, Edinburgh.