A unique event which highlights Doric language and culture through the medium of film has been recognised thanks to a major award.
The Doric Film Festival was crowned winner of the “Scots Cultural Project o the Year” at the 2024 Scots Language Awards. It was created by the award-winning Scots Radio and has a reputation for attracting a diverse field of work from individuals, groups, and schools in celebration of the richness and diversity of the region.
The Festival, which is supported by the Scottish Government, is the brainchild of award-winning broadcaster and Scots Radio director Frieda Morrison herself a former Scots Language Award winner having received the Janet Paisley Award for Services to the Scots Language in 2023.
The sixth annual awards, which took place at Cumnock Town Hall and were held in partnership with East Ayrshire Council, also honoured Aberdeen’s Riverbank Primary School for their P5F class publication: “Summer, e Magic Scurry” which won Scots Bairns Book of the Year and was created in partnership with Aberdeenshire-based Doric Books and funded by Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Fund.
Meanwhile, the Open University’s Scots language teacher professional learning programme, which was piloted by Dr Jamie Fairbairn and his team at Banff Academy, won Scots Educational Project of the Year.
Frieda Morrison said: “We are honoured that the Doric Film Festival sits among such eminent company in flying the flag for the North east of Scotland at these important awards which recognise some of the many exciting and varied projects which are working hard to raise the profile of Doric.”