2019 Guests

Lesley Riddoch
Lesley Riddoch Lesley is one of Scotland's best-known commentators and broadcasters. With three decades of journalism and radio under her belt, she now runs her own independent radio and podcast company and advocates for new solution
Denise Mina
Denise Mina Best-selling author Denise has won multiple awards for her crime fiction, including the acclaimed Garnethill trilogy and more recently, The Long Drop and Conviction. A frequent contributor to radio programmes such as Saturday
Stuart Wilson
Stuart Wilson Stuart is an Oscar and BAFTA nominated sound recordist and engineer who has worked on some of Hollywood's biggest epics and with some of the most distinctive directors of our day, such as Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderso
Zara Balfour
Zara Balfour Zara is an award-winning director, producer and writer with 18 years experience in all forms of documentary, specialising in films about the world we live in and people and cultures worldwide. She will be introducing her fir
Vicki Lesley
Vicki Lesley Vicki brings her first independent documentary, The Atom: A Love Affair to the festival for only its second public screening. After a busy career in the television industry, Vicki left to concentrate on the crowdfunding and
Christopher Hird
Christopher Hird Christo is an old friend of Cromarty Film Festival, as well as a leading figure in UK independent documentary-making. With Dartmouth Films, he has pioneered new ways of funding, producing and distributing documentaries i
Sanne Jehoul
Sanne Jehoul This year, our popular short film selections will be curated by Sanne from Glasgow Short Film Festival. Sanne is a colleague of Matt Lloyd, our usual programmer, and brings the same passion and care to the selection.
Lawrence Sutcliffe
Lawrence Sutcliffe Lawrence is our Doctor of Film. He possesses a worryingly thorough knowledge of every obscure Scottish or Scottish-themed film out there. We feared that there was no more couthy nonsense to be discovered, but never dou
Cat Bruce & Keith Duncan
Cat Bruce & Keith Duncan Cat and Keith return to Cromarty to run another fantastic hands-on animation workshop. Cat is an award-winning animator and director based in Edinburgh and a wonderful teacher of ingenious animation technique