If you were on the London train passing through Kingussie last week on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday you may have wondered where in the world you were as you pulled into the station to a blast of Indian music and the glorious sight of a couple of dozen exotically clad girls in bright saris dancing like Bollywood stars! What you saw was all part of the launching of a weekly film night called the Ruthven Road Picturehouse in the nearby...

Bollywood will come to Badenoch on Friday 2 September when Kingussie’s new weekly film night is launched at the Silverfjord Hotel. The Ruthven Road Picturehouse will open its autumn and winter season of films with a showing of “Slumdog Millionaire.”  The film night is named for the town’s famous mention in the Oscar-winning film and will show films every Friday at 8pm. The Ruthven Road Picturehouse is lucky enough to have...

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a grant of £24,600 to “Come Dine With Me Through Time”, a project being managed by Kingussie Food on Film. Young people from four locations around the Highland Region will join together to work on a film and website called “Come Dine With Me Through Time” after the Channel 4 TV programme which inspired the project.  The award will allow the young people to film their own unique version...

Budding film-makers from across the strath cooked up a storm at Kingussie High School at a workshop run by the town’s Food on Film festival organisers. Twenty pupils from the school, Grantown Grammar and Buckie High school were given a masterclass in the art of storytelling with the aim of producing films for next year’s festival. Workshop organiser Cathey Reece said she had taken the teenagers through every aspect of...

Kingussie Food on Film’s Jillian Robertson took the short film “Fishy Business” to Pitlochry Primary school last week with a five senses workshop as part of a 2 year Food For Life project called “Cairngorms Food on Film”. The film features a local organic fish farm at Delfour Hatchery in Alvie and the owner, award-winning smoked trout producer Craig Ireland. Pupils not only got to see and hear on film how fish...

Over 700 people flocked to Kingussie’s unique Food on Film festival last weekend to celebrate food together with a four day feast of films and foodie delights which finished late on Sunday evening. Friday’s Oscar Night  was a glittering event with a red carpet and flame torches drawing the crowds into the gorgeously decorated hall to enjoy canapés and wine before the films. Kingussie High School students helped to dress the...

British soap star Lee Boardman heads for the Scottish Highlands in new British rom-com, No Ordinary Trifle, bringing a touch of silver screen glamour to the Food On Film Festival this upcoming weekend. Perhaps best known as Coronation Street’s Jez Quigley, Boardman is Loz in James Hacking’s No Ordinary Trifle. The new romantic-comedy will be making its charity debut at Kingussie’s Food on Film Festival this February 5th. As of...