A FILM bringing a rich seam of Fife history alive will receive its official UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival.
The Happy Lands, a major collaboration between Theatre Workshop Scotland and Fifers from the region’s mining heartlands, has already been shown to appreciative audiences in local community centres.
It was first aired at a gala screening at Dunfermline’s Alhambra Theatre which itself played a role in the film as a thank you to all those who had taken part.
Now it will receive two showings at the Glasgow Festival on February 17 and 18.
Both will feature a cast and crew question and answer session and director’s introduction.
Following on from that the film will be setting off on a UK wide roadshow tour later this year.
Ordinary Fifers helped shape the film, which was filmed on location in Fife and tells of the harsh realities of abject poverty and strife caused by unemployment and strikes which swept across the area in 1926.
Filming took place in Lochgelly and Bowhill. Dunfermline and Rosyth also featured.