Film

You know, it’s true – first impressions do tend to stick. Although I never saw it with my own eyes, Robert Combs, assistant engineer at The Crieff Hydro Hotel, created an amazing picture for me; describing how a professional diviner was engaged by the hotel to locate a  productive fresh water spring on in its grounds, to supplement the existing – and costly – metered supply. With an imaginary hazel twitch in his hands, he began animatedly striding across the wet lawns, enacting how the said water prophet, criss-crossed over the entire estate, stooping and bending to place brightly coloured flags in the ground – like fluttering totems – as his magical wand wavered earthwards, bowing and dipping like a mating crane, at the source of...

It’s strange, isn’t it? You know that feeling which sometimes overtakes you, when you have lived in an area most of your life – or return to from time to time – and quite suddenly you see the lay of the land or city, from an entirely different perspective? Well that’s exactly what happened when I visited Pitlochry during a film recee for a project commissioned by Perth and Kinross Council and the Green Tourism Business Scheme. The Atholl Palace Hotel sits perched like a fairytale castle on a little hill to the south-east of the village with with the River Tummel sweeping itself away from it’s lower slopes, southwards through the Vale of Atholl. Directly to the north, Ben Vrackie displays its early autumnal russets like samples of rough new...

This is Paul Lupari and he is one of those unusual individuals who welcomes change! In fact, you could say, he has made a career out of it, and often puts himself in the spotlight to explain to his customers, how they can benefit from it too! Recently he decided it was time to invigorate his market place and came up with the idea of creating an unusual campaign to help circulate more product amongst his clients. He knew many of his consumers had been going through a lean time so he decided to put on a show, which is where we came in! Paul wanted actors to illustrate and underline his views with a sprinkling of thespian drama and humor to create emotional impact! We were commissioned to write the screen plays and produce a film of the entire event. You can see an...