NEIL LEIPER KATE DICKIE MARTIN COMPSTON ANDREW FLANAGAN	FEATURE FILMS EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 (17^TH TO 28^TH) BRYAN LARKIN's RUNNING IN TRAFFIC - co-starring Kenneth Cranham, Anna Kerth and ANNE DOWNIE premieres at Cineworld 2, EIFF on June 22^nd at 21.25 and again at Cineworld 6 , EIFF on June 26^th at 21.00. – Check out the website for all other info - www.runningintraffic.com. Bryan is a Trailblazer at the EIFF 2009 (this is a talent showcase highlighting ten stars of the future in the British Film industry and revealing their exceptional talents in the British Gala programme at the Festival) ~ NEIL LEIPER and KATE DICKIE star in WASTED – an uncompromising contemporary drama, a film from Glasgow's celebrated RAINDOG company, directed by Caroline Patterson and Stuart Davids. A heartrending account of the trials of two addicted runaways, harrowing to watch, WASTED is a compassionate and fiercely believable vision of street life. Also starring Emma Hartley Miller, David Hayman and Gary Lewis – premieres at Cineworld 6, EIFF on June 19^th at 21.10 and at Filmhouse 2 on June 20^th at 22.15. KATE DICKIE also plays a lead role in Paul Wright's 20 minuter produced by Young Films and showing in the UK Shorts programme at Filmhouse 2 on June 27^th at 12.00. – www.youngfilms.co.uk - producers of E4's INBETWEENERS. BILLY RIDDOCH is among the cast of Danny Boyle's classic SHALLOW GRAVE which receives a 15^th Anniversary Digital Restoration screening (!) on 19^th June at Cineworld 10 at 18.45. General news: BRYAN LARKIN stars opposite Shirley Henderson in new short for National Film Academy graduation THE PORTENTOUS DEATH OF A COMPLETE AND UTTER NOBODY filming this month ~ MARTIN COMPSTON's THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED, co-starring Gemma Arteton and Eddie Marson picked up international distribution at Cannes and will be out before the end of 2009 ~ Likewise Northern Soul dance spectacular SOULED OUT, which is completing further exciting dance photography for which Martin is back through the time warp to the 70's shooting until mid-June ~ GORDON BROWN and ANDREW FLANAGAN star opposite Mads Mikkelson in Viking adventure VALHALLA RISING which rears up late summer on general release ~ KATE DICKIE wrapped the chilling thriller OUTCAST, co-starring James Nesbitt with SHONAGH PRICE in a supporting role, and emotional drama SHELTER, co-starring John Lynch, this Spring before moving on to TV projects detailed below ~					BRYAN LARKIN ANNE DOWNIE BILLY RIDDOCH GORDON BROWN SHONAGH PRICE
ANTHONY BOWERS WILLIAM RUANE MARTIN DOCHERTY JORDAN YOUNG JOHN P ARNOLD GARY FRENCH	TV NEWS KATE DICKIE has wrapped DIVE (a two-parter for Granada) written and directed by Dominic Savage, playing the diving instructor to two teenage champion water babies in this original coming of age drama ~ Then she moved on to Shed Media and 20-20 TV's brilliantly scripted costume drama series about the London law courts of the 18^th century - GARROWS LAW – now filming until July. This series has a cream cast from all over the UK with Kate in a guest role in an episode about the politics of the times while JULIE HALE (MY LEFT FOOT) guests in an episode as an outspoken philanthropist while ANTHONY BOWERS plays the regular role of the Clerk of the Court, guiding proceedings throughout. Wrapping up: RIVER CITY completes filming its first block for 2009 with GORDON MCCORKELL and EILEEN MCCALLUM as regulars Deek and Liz – joined on screen this month by returning original cast member WILLIAM RUANE revisiting the role of Brian for a one off special appearance and by MARTIN DOCHERTY in a terrific role as a common man type Gas Engineer visiting almost every family in BBC Scotland's ongoing serial ~ Martin has also just wrapped ONE NIGHT IN EMERGENCY, a one off drama starring Kevin McKidd which will screen on BBC later in the year ~ JORDAN YOUNG has been investigating urban crimes in WHITEOUT for German TV, filming in Berlin and in Edinburgh alongside JOHN YULE through May and June ~ DANI'S HOUSE is shooting it's next series and JOHN P ARNOLD took the role of a Game Show Host Vampire 'Vlad' (you don't get many of them on CBBC) ~ The big one to watch this month is the new Shed Media Alex Kingston and Annette Crosbie led 8 part series HOPE SPRINGS on BBC1, starting its run at 8pm Sunday 7^th June – TONY MCGEEVER is a regular in the large ensemble cast with LORNA MCDEVITT, GARY FRENCH and NICK FARR appearing in episodes across the season ~ Being PHENOMENAL is SAMANTHA SHIELDS in the new TV campaign for Irn Bru – she's the test-tube playing high school girl leaping around on the side of buses in Scottish cities and all over STV before she graduates the RSAMD musical course in September ~ And coming to an end of it's run but bound to be repeated is a very special season of original shorts made by Sorbier Films for BBC ALBA – eadar chluich or "Interlude" – is also available week by week on BBC iplayer – and the films include performances from MARTIN COMPSTON (lothario lover) / KATE DICKIE, ALISON PEEBLES and MHAIRI ANDERSON (spooky doll spooked by spooky kids spook of a Mum) / JENNY HULSE (king pipers dreamgirl) / KEVIN QUINN and JOHN PAUL HURLEY (lads on the lash) in interpretations of famous and original Gaelic songs (it is a stunning collection – go seek them out) ~					JULIE HALE GORDON MCCORKELL EILEEN MCCALLUM JOHN YULE TONY MCGEEVER LORNA MCDEVITT
SAMANTHA SHIELDS	ALISON PEEBLES	JENNY HULSE	KEVIN QUINN	JOHN PAUL HURLEY	MHAIRI ANDERSON	NICK FARR
DOUGAL LEE HELEN MCALPINE KATHLEEN MCDERMOTT JULIET CADZOW DANIELLE STEWART	THEATRE NEWS GREG POWRIE and DOUGAL LEE are at the heart of the company of the Pitlochry Festival season 2009 which opened it's season with "WHISKY GALORE the Musical" with Dougal as Father McAlister and Greg as Dr McLaren (and lots of others!). Then for the rest of the season DOUGAL plays the lead romantic role of Teddy Lloyd in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, David in Liz Lochead's GOOD THINGS and will be appearing in THE SERVANT O' TWA MAISTERS as will GREG who also plays stuffy Gordon Lowther in JEAN BRODIE and James Wylie in WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS ~ MARTIN DOCHERTY will be COOKING WITH ELVIS for director Andy Arnold at the Tron in Glasgow, rehearsing from June 22^nd and opening on July 10^th running until July 25^th – Then Martin joins the cast of THE ELIXIR OF LIFE for Scottish Opera, directed by Giles Havergal, in the non-speaking (or singing for that matter) comic signature role of The Servant, rehearsing in August for an opening in September and joining the Scottish opera repertoire on tour until November with weekly performances only ~ After a sell out award winning run on last year's Edinburgh Fringe, JORDAN YOUNG recreates his brilliant comic performance in SLICK for Vox Motus Theatre, playing the lead role of troubled tearaway Malcolm at the Cork Mid-Summer Festival 18^th to 22^nd June – check it out at www.voxmotus.co.uk ~ HELEN MCALPINE opens in BALGAY HILL at Dundee on June 9^th– this original play is based on the work of Dundee hero and Associates (that's the popular pop rhythm combo) lead singer song writer Billy Mackenzie ~ LORNA MCDEVITT is playing Mrs Erlynne in the cut down LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN at Oran Mor as part of their Classics season from June 8^th to June 13^th ~ DAVID FITZGERALD and CLARE WAUGH will feature as lead artistes in the "event" called THE GATHERING 2009 – a pageant being presented on the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade in July ~ And many of our clients are being booked for Panto as YOU are reading this – but more of that anon – Oh No there isn't – Oh yes there will be! Recent films and TV available on DVD include – DEAD SET (Kathleen McDermott), WATERLOO ROAD (Shabana Bakhsh), RED MIST (Martin Compston), SOMERS TOWN (Kate Dickie), THE RETURN OF RAB C NESBITT (Jordan Young, Kathleen McDermott), STONE OF DESTINY (Juliet Cadzow, Bryan Lowe, Danielle Stewart), DEAR GREEN PLACE (Martin Docherty), LEGIT (Jordan Young, Emma D"Inverno), TRUE NORTH (Martin Compstron), DOOMSDAY (Martin Compston), WEDDING BELLES (Kathleen McDermott), RED ROAD (Kate Dickie, Martin Compston), A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS (Martin Compston), THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (William Ruane), AE FOND KISS (Shabana Bakhsh, John Yule), TICKETS (William Ruane, Martin Compston), ), BALAMORY (Juliet Cadzow), WILD COUNTRY (Samantha Shields, Martin Compston, Jordan Young), MORVERN CALLAR (Kathleen McDermott), SWEET SIXTEEN (Martin Compston, William Ruane, Matt Costello) plus TAGGART, REBUS, MONARCH OF THE GLEN and STILL GAME box sets feature many of our clients over the years					GREG POWRIE DAVID FITZGERALD CLARE WAUGH SHABANA BAKHSH BRYAN LOWE MATT COSTELLO

AND FINALLY. . .

HUNWICK HUGHES LTD was commended for the Arts & Business Scotland Small Business Award 2008 in recognition of our sole sponsorship of the Royal National Theatre Connections Summer showcase in Scotland in 2007 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, involving performances by eight youth theatre groups from Scotland, Ireland and Norway, and for supporting "opportunities for 1400 young people to participate in the Lyceum's Education programme and extend membership of the successful Lyceum Youth Theatre".

Continuing our support for LYT, HUNWICK HUGHES LTD is establishing the Lyceum Youth Theatre Development Fund in 2009 as the founding donors.