Join us for a live score archive film screening event, featuring the acclaimed accordionist and composer Pàdruig Morrison with fiddler and Gaelic singer Claire Frances MacNeil, to celebrate the launch of the FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive website: faodailfilm.scot
Until as late as 1979, very little, if any, publicly available film created in or about the Outer Hebrides came from anything other than an outsider’s perspective. This lack of an indigenous viewpoint led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised or patronising, representation of island life in the 20th century.
The FAODAIL | FOUND project seeks to redress this imbalance and has so far digitised over 25 hours of 8mm home movies through crowdfunding. The archive is a unique and important documentation of social history of the Outer Hebrides that has gained recognition already through documentaries produced by UistFilm such as Dùthchas, Faodail | Found Film and Beatha nan Eilean.
All are welcome to come along for the launch of the FAODAIL | FOUND website in Carinish Hall on Saturday 9th May at 7pm. This event is free, booking essential. Please book your ticket using our online ticketing below. Donations to the Crowdfunder fundraising campaign would be much appreciated!
A launch event is also being held in the Scottish Storytelling Centre, on Saturday 2nd May at 8pm. Tickets are available via the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
We are increasing access to the FAODAIL | FOUND archive with the support of the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
