The Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30) has announced thirty emerging directors, producers and screenwriters for the 2013 Talent Lab, Composers Lab and Sound Lab. The participants will engage with key UK and International film professionals in a number of ways to help advise and inspire them for the next steps in their careers.

Talent Lab participants are:

WRITERS:

Adam Dewar, Ewen Glass, Gail Hackston, Mandy Lee, Mark Robertson, Sharon Walker

DIRECTORS:

David Lumsden, PJ Palmer

WRITERS/DIRECTORS:

James Alexandrou, Lucy Brydon, Mark Devenport, Silvia Felce, Zak Hanif, Karen Hope, Philip Peel, Siri Rodnes, Robert Samuels, Dan Smyth, Ian Waugh

PRODUCERS:

Sarah Brocklehurst, Rosie Crerar, Rob Darnell, Emma Louise Dodds, Edward Hemming, Roxanne Holman, Jessica Levick, Lisa Mackintosh, James Pearcey, Ken Petrie, Kathy Speirs

SOUND LAB:

Bethan Parkes, Ross Buchanan, Adrianne Louise Calgie, Patrick Collins, Jonathan Crosbie, Michael John Cumming, Ugne Pikutyte, Simone Smith

COMPOSER LAB:

Sonia Allori, Matthew Hogg, Francis Macdonald, Shona Mackay, Brian McAlpine, Rory McIntyre, Conrad Molleson, Matthew Whiteside

Festival Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara said, “I’m very happy that our festival will once again this year contribute to the development of filmmaking talent through these vital programmes. The high level of accomplishment among the participants is an encouraging sign for the future of cinema.”