Virginia Heath is Professor of Film at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK and a multi-award winning writer/director. She writes and directs documentary, hybrid and drama films, such as her short film, Relativity, which won the Prix UIP at the Berlinale. Her BAFTA-nominated feature-length archive and music documentary, From Scotland with Love (75'), screened with live performances of the score at the Edinburgh International Festival, Barbican Centre, and Celtic Connections, as well as at film festivals around the world. "Brilliantly evokes the flavour of 20th century Scotland" (The Herald); "Hypnotic" (The Independent); "Some kind of genius" (The Guardian).

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