Yours truly does the Edinburgh International Festival

Having produced a series of Moving Conversations at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years back, I am bringing my 'intelligent entertainment' format to the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival.  www.eif.co.uk/trading From popular culture to the altar of high art - Moving Conversations knows no bounds!

In line with the theme of EIF 2011 - To the Far West - we are bringing together business gurus to discuss the rich tradition of trading links between Scotland and Asia.  As well as a Director of HSBC [yet to be confirmed], the line-up for Trading with the Far West includes:

Ian Ritchie CBE - technology entrepreneur and mentor to many Scottish start-ups.
Michael Ward - a Scottish expat Bollywood film producer! Planning a full length feature of The Far Pavilions.
Professor Catherine Schenk - expert on the history of Chinese financial services and chronicler of the rise of HSBC.
John Callaghan - CEO of pt Hero, Indonesia's biggest supermarket chain and part of the Jardine Matheson trading empire.

As it is a Moving Conversation, each panellist will come armed with an entertaining clip from the Scottish Screen Archive http://ssa.nls.uk/ around which they will build a compelling argument.  It promises to be entertaining and enlightening - worth seeing for its unique historical value, let alone the views of a diverse and engaging panel.

Trading with the Far West is a one off show at The Filmhouse, Edinburgh, 2.30pm on Friday 19th August.  We are in Screen 2, which seats 100 - so book early!  Tickets are available at £6 through http://www.eif.co.uk/, the Hub or Filmhouse box offices, from 2nd April.

Moving Conversations

Here is a short film about Moving Conversations, my 'intelligent entertainment' format, which has been on the road in Ullapool, Glasgow, London, Dublin, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Liverpool over the past few years.  We work with ITN Source and the Scottish Screen Archive and have covered a huge range of topics - climate change, energy, fast food, urban regeneration, selling, cities of the future, digital media, video games....the list goes on.  Sponsors have included Bank of Scotland, Renewable UK, Ernst & Young, McGrigors, SURF, Scottish Wave of Change, Zero Waste Scotland and EPSRC.

Its a great way to entertain an audience and get under the skin of a topic.  Michael Grade, former Chairman of ITV, says its a 'terrific format' and Stuart Cosgrove, Head of Creative Diversity at Channel 4, thinks its a 'clever concept'.  Audiences love it!

Contact me if you are a corporate looking for a fantastic way to communicate with target audiences [the ROI is excellent] or a broadcaster/online content provider looking for a proven and successful format that attracts an enthusiastic audience and corporate sponsorship.

Look our next week for a further Moving Conversations announcement.