Films of Scotland winning films.

The Scotsman

Films of Scotland winning films.  In the under 12 category, the winner was The Paisley Panther by a group of children from a Gaelic-speaking primary school in Paisley. Meanwhile a group from Perth won the and under13-18 category with There’s no place like Home and Juliet Storey scooped the 19-26 age category with her film Da Lass Dat Made The Bed For Me.

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00:00PANTHER

00:18Hello everyone, and welcome to this show.

00:22Oli?

00:23Panther.

00:24That's right, she's a panther.

00:26She's a panther.

00:27And we have a story about a panther in the past.

00:31Have you ever seen a panther in the past?

00:33No.

00:35I'll show you.

00:57PANTHER

01:09Can you hear me?

01:10Yes.

01:11Can you hear me?

01:12Yes.

01:13Yes?

01:27PANTHER

01:33Come on, let's go.

01:35PANTHER

01:56PANTHER

02:01Can you hear me?

02:02Yes.

02:03Can you hear me?

02:04Yes.

02:05Come on, let's go.

02:10PANTHER

02:27PANTHER

02:37PANTHER

02:56PANTHER

02:59Can you hear me?

03:00Yes, I'm a panther.

03:03I'm a panther.

03:06PANTHER

03:14I'm a panther.

03:16I'm a panther.

03:18Come on, let's go.

03:22PANTHER

03:26PANTHER

03:29PANTHER

03:36PANTHER

03:40PANTHER

03:46PANTHER

03:49ANIMALS

03:56I wouldn't have to feel like I need to flee the nest if people talked

04:25about things like gender and sexuality more often.

04:29When I came out 10 years ago people just didn't know what it meant to be non-binary or trans and

04:40so they would take your word for it and because you were a real person they just sort of accepted

04:43it. When I came out I had learned what trans and what non-binary meant and within three weeks I

04:48was out. I was trans the whole time I just didn't have a word for it.

04:53I wouldn't say it's a struggle I'd say it's kind of a mix. It really depends on where you are and

04:58what people you're with. It tends to be a lot easier when you're with other people rather than

05:03just out on your own. I'd say that in school it can be tough a lot more than in public.

05:09Where I'm from people are kind of homophobic sort of. Not homophobic but close-minded I guess.

05:27It does make me sad because it's such like a to me like a non-issue like people should be

05:32able to dress how they want express themselves how they want. If I could express myself the

05:37exact way I wanted to then I would be literally a walking rainbow like 24 7. I wish I could be

05:44seen as a person. Queerness and individuality isn't celebrated as much simply because you just

05:52miss out on a lot of stuff. In cities you'll get things like pride parades and meetups. When you

06:01come from a more rural area there's just not that. You get something about the people because it's

06:09such a it's a city but it's such a small city. A lot of the rural communities around it kind of

06:18congregate here. There is a lack of spaces for everyone. There has been a place that changed my

06:27life. It was a space that taught me so much and like taught me what we were capable of in Perth.

06:35What makes the good times good is being within my body and being present in the moment. Being

06:46queer in a rural place does have its benefits though. One of my fondest memories with my

06:55partner is we sat by the river and we just listened to music. My headphone jack was broken

07:04so we had to use a little headphone splitter. It was very cute. I was having such a nice time.

07:10There's just something so like healing about existing with other queer people and that's

07:20what I want to keep fighting for. Being in the sunlight, being part of nature in a bright and

07:32beautiful way makes me feel deeply queer and deeply happy. I think I would love life to just

07:43be like equal. I'd say that that would be my ideal situation for queer people in Perth is just to be

07:50treated like people. Fantabulous, incredible, and queer. For people to be normal about it is for it to be put into

07:59every aspect of your learning growing up. Just have it be normalized. I don't want to leave and I don't

08:08want the reason for me to leave to be because I feel like I can't exist here because I do exist

08:16here and I should exist here. Like I'm a queer experience here. I just like I'm not ready to

08:22give up on Perth and I don't want to.

09:16Do you feel Scottish? I've lived in Scotland my whole life. I sound a bit Scottish. I say we

09:26instead of small. I would say that I am Scottish but at the same time I don't feel Scottish. Can

09:33I change that? Let's look at my family. My mum and dad both grew up in Scotland. My dad's dad and his

09:40mum as well. My daddy's climbed loads of Monroes. My mum and her parents all grew up in Shetland

09:45which is in Scotland but almost everyone that I've met who is from Shetland says that they

09:50don't feel Scottish. Maybe that's where I get it from. But I'm wondering is there a way to try and

09:58feel more Scottish? Do I need to put a bit of effort into it? I want to try so I've set myself

10:06a task. A Scottish task. You've already seen my first attempt. Afterwards I realised I wasn't

10:17playing the right notes. I hadn't practised in so long I forgot what the notes were and was

10:23playing what I thought were the right ones but they were wrong. So I looked up what the notes

10:27actually were and then I wrote them down on the paper which sounds like cheating but it's okay

10:32because who am I trying to impress? Just myself. I got some help with picking the tune from a

10:41friend of ours who's amazing at playing fiddle music and I'd said I just need something that's

10:46Scottish and public domain and he said well there's thousands. What about this one? Love

10:52that one. Here's a transcript which I wrote out by hand and blu-tacked it to the wall.

10:56Practising was actually harder than I thought. I found I did not practise as much as I thought I

11:07would originally and I was finding any excuse I could to not practise or to stop practising.

11:14I then realised how creaky my floorboards are. Whenever the dog came in I was like fantastic.

11:21It's a good distraction. While I was practising I realised that Up Helly Al was coming up which is

11:27the Shetland Viking Fire Festival, the Lerwick one where my mum grew up and we have a mini one

11:33at home in Edinburgh each year and usually at the end of the night folk play and share Shetland

11:39tunes and I thought maybe I could do that this year and then I thought oh no that's a bit scary

11:45but I decided I would. That's when I actually started to feel pretty nervous.

11:52But the thing that actually kept me going and rehearsing was reminding myself

11:59and that we were sharing it and when I look around my room I notice that there's so many

12:04things. There's a lot of tap but there's a lot of things that people have shared with me,

12:09my parents and my grandparents and now I was sharing something and that in itself

12:14is quite lovely to think about and so I did play at the end of the night and honestly

12:20I sounded pretty bad but that's not the point. The point was to share it.

12:26Actually no, the point was to see if I'd feel more Scottish which actually I don't

12:32but I think I feel more Shetland-y, Shetlandic. Maybe I should have gone for that the whole

12:39time but then but Shetland is in Scotland so actually what yeah actually Scotland is a small

12:45country but it's big enough to have those that variation in language and culture and art and

12:51music all throughout it and what I was thinking of as Scottish was really just it's just a little

12:58bit of one bit of Scotland. I was putting Scotland in a box which is ironic because

13:05usually people put Shetland in a box. I put Scotland in a box instead.

13:12Anyway I hope you enjoy this tune, The Last That Made The Bed For Me.

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