For our screening of The Angels’ Share and Kinetic East on St Andrew’s night we are delighted to announce that we will be joined by two distinguished guests.

The Angels’ Share’s writer Paul Laverty will be in the house! Paul is an award winning writer and has written the screenplays for nine full length feature films, and two shorts, directed by Ken Loach.

Paul was born in Calcutta, India, to an Irish mother and Scottish father.He obtained a Philosophy degree at the Gregorian University in Rome. Thereafter he obtained a law degree in Glasgow and went on to become a practising lawyer.

In the mid eighties he travelled to Nicaragua, Central America, and lived there for almost three years. He worked for a Nicaraguan human rights organisation. During this time he travelled widely in Guatemala and El Salvador which were both in a state of civil war.

Paul received the Fullbright Award in 1984 and lived in Los Angeles for 18 months. After his time in Central America Laverty made contact with the director Ken Loach and since then they have been working in constant collaboration.

Filmaker of Kinetic East Walid Salhab will also be joining us. Walid’s films came to the attention of an international audience when his stunning time lapse/stop motion film of Scotland’s capital ‘Kinetic Edinburgh II’ achieved over 3 million views on YouTube.

Walid is a Media Practices Lecturer and is applying his filming technique to Scotland’s largest arts and regeneration project – The Helix in Falkirk. A major part of this work is capturing the construction of ‘The Kelpies’, two 30 metre high steel-plated sculptures of horses’ heads, weighing over 600 tonnes. Walid’s most recent work Kinetic East will be screened before the Angels’ Share.

In addition to our special guests, we would also like to extend a huge thanks to Glengoyne for providing whisky to allow us to enjoy a dram with the film.

And because of the demand for tickets we’ve had to change venue to the St Jo’s Centre for extra capacity.

The film is currently fully subscribed but you can request to be on the waiting list for tickets if we have any cancellations/returns.

• The Angels’ Share CERT 15 and Kinetic Scotland – The East screening 7.30pm finishes 9.30pm (doors open 30 minutes in advance) Adults Only as a result of language and whisky tasting.

Alternatively, you can also join us for Local Hero and kids film Epic. Tickets for these films are available via the links below:

• Local Hero CERT PG – screening Friday 29 November at 7.30pm finishes 9pm  
• Epic CERT PG screening Saturday 30 November at 10.30am finishes 12.10 

Balerno Village Screen is a community cinema – free to attend – funded by donations. We screen films monthly in the village of Balerno, South West Edinburgh.

We look forward to seeing you soon.