Schillaci Malmond

“While this is a narrative, fantastical film, it’s impossible to deny that film - as an art form - deals with time and memory and I have a lot of memories from Pitlochry, growing up.”

“So when we look at the river, or we go to the Atholl Palace or while we're in Faskally Forest, there is a sense of my own experience. This is the environment where I formed a lot of my ideas.”

“What I rediscovered when I came back to visit, because of Covid, was the majesty of Scotland. As a teenager, you just think, ‘there’s nothing to do, here,’ but as you get older you think, ‘wow, I lived in a form of paradise,’ in this natural world, and, as my tastes have changed in art, I’ve realised how important that natural world is.”

“So many people in Pitlochry have helped to make this film happen. Alan Cumming has single-handedly elevated the project, the Pitlochry Community Action Trust and all the local businesses have been brilliant. It is their generosity that has made it possible.”