{"id":5206,"date":"2018-07-24T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:48:57","slug":"virginia-heath-lift-share-eiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/virginia-heath-lift-share-eiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Virginia Heath’s new film ‘Lift Share’ premieres at Edinburgh International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lift Share<\/em><\/a>, a short drama film directed by Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath<\/a>, had great success at its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0last month on Wednesday 27 June.<\/p>\n

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The film was made with support from\u00a0Creative Scotland<\/a>, BFI.NETWORK<\/a>,\u00a0Scottish Film Talent Network<\/a>, An Comhairle (Western Isles Council),\u00a0Faction North<\/a>, Kolik Films and the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC<\/a>) at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n

\"Promotional<\/a><\/p>\n

In\u00a0Lift Share<\/em>, two strangers meet through an online lift share website: a young Romanian woman in desperate search of a child that was forcibly taken from her and a Scottish musician returning to the Isle of Harris to face up to the death of his violent, estranged father. \u00a0As they drive through the Scottish Highlands, the film moves between present and future time frames as each character imagines what they might do when they reach the Outer Hebrides.\u00a0 Alone with their fears, the\u00a0haunting beauty of the remote Islands helps them\u00a0find escape from their past pain. The comfort that only strangers can bring enables them to share a moment of hope for the future.<\/p>\n

Professor Virginia Heath<\/a>\u00a0is a Professor of Film in the\u00a0Art and Design Research Centre<\/a>\u00a0at Sheffield Hallam University, and is a writer, film-maker and researcher. Virginia has written and directed several award winning films and her films are screened at international film festivals including Berlin, Cannes, The Hamptons, New York, Vancouver, St Petersburg. Virginia\u2019s projects include\u00a0My Dangerous Loverboy<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2009)\u00a0 a powerful multi-platform project addressing human-trafficking and sexual-exploitation which formed the basis of\u00a0an outstanding\u00a0Impact Case Study<\/a>\u00a0 for Unit of Assessment 34: Art & Design (History, Theory & Practice) in REF2014, and\u00a0From Scotland with Love<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2014) a feature-length poetic documentary combining archive footage and original music composition which received a BAFTA Scotland nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lift Share, a short drama film directed by Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath, had great success at its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival\u00a0last month on Wednesday 27 June. The film was made with support from\u00a0Creative Scotland, BFI.NETWORK,\u00a0Scottish Film Talent Network, An Comhairle (Western Isles Council),\u00a0Faction North, Kolik Films and the Art & Design Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,768,769,124,767,115,259],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-eiff","tag-faction-north","tag-film-research","tag-lift-share","tag-media-arts-research","tag-virginia-heath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/07\/HEATH-2018-06-Lift-Share-Premiere-at-EIFF.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1lY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7279,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/virginia-heath-lift-share-eiff-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5206,"position":0},"title":"Virginia Heath’s ‘Lift Share’ selected for special \u2018Made in Scotland\u2019 Showcase in Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"25\/06\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Virginia Heath\u2018s\u00a0Lift Share\u00a0has been selected for a special showcase at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. 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