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11/09/2024

21/08/2024

NEW DOCUMENTARY TRAILER - 'Have You Seen the Beast?' 🐈‍⬛🎬 👀

Currently on it's festival run, you can catch it one of these 3 UK cities!

- Shortscape Film Festival
Saturday 7th September, Leith Arches Edinburgh

- The Smalls Film Festival
Sunday 22nd September, London’s Curzon Hoxton

- Bolton Film Festival
Thursday 3 October, Light Cinema Bolton

+ more screenings to be announced

Currently at Film Festivals - 'A cold case rumour-mentary about sightings of an alien big cat in the rural Welsh countryside told through eyewitness telephone…

24/10/2023

Screening in Denmark today!❤️🧲🎥

22/09/2023

Sink or Skim is back on BBC iPlayer !😃🥏🌊

Looking forward to the first return of World Stone Skimming Championships since COVID this weekend.

Two obsessed stone skimmers show us what it takes to be the world's best.

11/09/2023

A bittersweet day. So many incredible memories with you Gordon🧲❤️

Thinking of Gordon today. One year on since he passed ❤️🧲

We love and miss you G.

09/06/2023

We won our first Royal Television Society Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎬🧲❤️🏳️‍🌈🎥

Absolutely delighted to have received the DOCUMENTARY AND SPECIALIST FACTUAL award.

This is testament to Gordon’s resilience, integrity and kindness to all those around him. Kindness to the friends, family , caregivers, artists and filmmakers alike.

Screen Scotland BBC Scotland Long Live My Happy Head

Congratulations Gordon 🧲❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 You deserve this you, you continue to inspire people 🏳️‍🌈

Long Live My Happy Head is the WINNER of the Royal Television Society Scotland Specialist Factual and Documentary award.

Long Live My Happy Head is still gaining international impact through health, science and arts festivals. Gordon’s friend Richie continues to exhibit his comic artwork with a recent exhibition at the London Business Design Centre. While Shawn is engaging the carer support groups in the US. Long Live His Happy Head

https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-scotland-awards-2023-0

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19/05/2023

🧲❤️🎥🎬Receiving our first Royal Television Society Scotland nomination for our feature doc 'Long Live My Happy Head'

RTS Scotland Awards 2023 Nominees Announces & Tickets On Sale!

19/03/2023

Thanks to the support of Screen Scotland , BBC Scotland & The Open University for facilitating the production of Long Live My Happy Head. Enthralled to have it nominated for Celtic Media Festival 🧲❤️🎬

15/03/2023

It's the Spanish Premiere of Long Live My Happy Head today at Brain Film Fest - Premi Solé Tura 🧲❤️

The film is opening Brain Film Fest - Premi Solé Tura today in Barcelona 🧲❤️🎬!

It'll be attended by Co-Director Will Hewitt for a post screening discussion at the Spanish premiere

https://brainfilmfest.com/en/peliculas/long-live-my-happy-head/

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13/02/2023

Come on Barcelona 💃🎬 Brain Film Fest - Premi Solé Tura

Our SPANISH PREMIER 🇪🇸 is coming up at Brain Film Fest - Premi Solé Tura ! 🧲❤️🎞️🎥🎬 We're also the opening night film ☺️

👉From 15th - 19th March CCCB Barcelona

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03/01/2023

Long Live My Happy Head is having it's Irish premiere this Sunday at First Fortnight 🧲❤️🏳️‍🌈

Starting 2023 with the film in Dublin at

The Mental Health Arts & Culture Festival 🧲❤️🏳️‍🌈

Screening at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) 03:30pm 8th Jan with Director Austen McCowan in attendance for a Q&A. 🎬

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30/12/2022

Long Live My Happy Head made the list of top 10 scoring films for The Film Magazine 2022 😄🧲❤️

The 2022 movies that have earned the highest-scoring reviews from The Film Magazine's team of film writers and established contributors.

19/11/2022

Long Live My Happy Head is screening at Portland Q***r Film Festival today! ❤️🧲🏳️‍🌈

9pm in Cinema 21 😃

http://www.pdxqueerfilm.com/

17/11/2022

London pals, we'll be screening Long Live My Happy Head at Global Health Film Festival, next Friday 25th Nov. 🧲❤️

You can get tickets here: https://www.globalhealthfilm.org/events/ghff2022-long-live-my-happy-head-2022
Hope to see you there!

31/10/2022

"His (Gordon) humour and love for life are infectiously inspiring." - Point of View Magazine 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Long Live My Happy Head review: Scottish artist Gordon Shaw humorously chronicles his experience with a brain tumour that will kill him.

28/10/2022

Some extraordinary docs are screening at Windsor International Film Festival this week... And Long Live My Happy Head is one of them! 🇨🇦🧲❤️

It's the Canadian premiere today for ! 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

The film will be screening at Windsor International Film Festival today and again on Nov 3rd. 🧲❤️📽

https://windsorfilmfestival.com/film/ST00002086/

MELT THE FLY Gordon Shaw - artist Screen Scotland

19/10/2022

It's amazing seeing Long Live My Happy Head 🧲❤️ reaching so many people and getting programmed alongside all these vibrant and creative films, dramas & documentaries alike. 🏳️‍🌈

Is that two film festival screenings in one day on opposite sides of the Atlantic?... Yus! 😉🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

The documentary feature is screening at Q-Fest in Wisonsin USA today 🧲❤️

https://qfestuwec.com/schedule/long-live-my-happy-head

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire MELT THE FLY Screen Scotland

19/10/2022

is headed to Frankfurt, Germany this today 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 as part of the wonderful display of creativity that is B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes

It's the German Premiere today 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes

Astor Film Lounge 📽️🎞️
Wed, 19 October 2022, 6:00 PM

Germany 🇩🇪 the home of the best film🎞️editor there is - Barbara Toennieshen, who cut the feature film 🙂

https://b3biennale.de/en/works/long-live-my-happy-Long Live My Happy Head

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