Film influenced by East Neuk up for award at Edinburgh festival

A Fife filmmaker is in the running for a top award after seeing his work premiered at Cannes.

Paul Wright’s For Those in Peril was part of the line-up for Cannes Critics’ Week during the glamorous film festival.

It is also to be shown at the International Film Festival in Edinburgh later this month, where it is shortlisted for the Michael Powell Award for best British feature film.

Set in a Scots fishing village, the movie tells the story of a boy who is the sole survivor of fishing trip which kills five men, including his brother.

Influenced by sea-going folklore and superstition, villagers blame Aaron for the deaths and make him an outcast. Refusing to believe his brother is dead, the grief-stricken youth sets out to find him.

Although it was filmed in Gourdon, Aberdeenshire, Wright, 31, originally from Lower Largo, said it was inspired by the East Neuk villages and myths told to him in his childhood.

The film will be shown in Edinburgh on June 28. Wright’s first film Hikikomori won a Scottish Bafta for best new work and his short film Until the River Runs Red won a Bafta.