
Year Zero and Tartan Features Newsletter: A Midsummer Nights Scene
Year Zero and Tartan Features Newsletter: A Midsummer Nights Scene Scotland's original Distributors, Creators, Promoters and Provocateurs...

Simple Red Epic / Scarlet and Red One Avid Workflow
Red has a reputation for having a difficult, tricky or expensive workflow This post will show one of the many ways to simplify it. ...

How To Safely Back-Up Your Data on Location - Simple Data Wrangling
Everyone can back-up data. It's simple and you do it most days when copying photo's from your camera or phone to your computer (or...


Filmmaker Q&A - Colin Bell & Gregor Barclay on Ribbons
Tartan Features #17 - improvised psychological thriller, Ribbons - got off to a shaky start earlier this year when the shoot schedule was...

Empire of the Sensless: Funding, Promoting and Nurturing Emerging Talent pt1
Yesterday, I identified three problems I see currently facing Scotland's film industry. Today, I want to focus on the first of those...


DIY Distribution : How to Get Your Short or Feature onto Amazon Prime – For Free
Democratising the Filmmaking Process Volume 1 DIY Distribution : How to Get Your Short or Feature onto Amazon Prime – For Free There's...


Where's Me Washboard? DIY - Music and Filmmaking. An industrial lesson in how to liberate art f
Where’s Me Washboard? We recently wrote about Write Shoot Cut’s radical decision to screen local independent features as being one of the...

Year Zero / Tartan Features Eventography
Tartan Features / Year Zero Eventography Like our films, our events are also given catalogue numbers as a little nod to the Independent...

Micro Budget Features - A New Constitution
From the archives.....April 2016 Scotland: Year Zero Filmmaking and a New Constitution for Independent Filmmakers. You might not think it...

Death to Tartan Features
From the Archives. June 2016 “Death to Tartan Features” - Why Scottish Independent Film-Makers will win and Tartan Features will have to...