Upcoming Scottish screenings:
 http://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/site/event-details/the_pipe_director_qa/

27/5/11 Belmont Theatre, Aberdeen

27-30 May Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh

29 May - 1June Dundee Contemporary Arts

30/5/11 Eden Court, Inverness

'The Pipe' coming to cinemas in Scotland - Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee
and Inverness.

Documentary charting the battle between the tiny village of Rossport
and the Oil Giant Shell is coming to Scottish screens this weekend.
Having playing to packed houses in Toronto, New York, Boston,
Amsterdam and Berlin, and won critical acclaim internationally, this
controversial new documentary by first time filmmaker Risteard Ó
Domhnaill will screen at a number of selected cinemas around the UK in
late May/early June.

The film follows this small fishing community in the West of Ireland,
as it is torn apart by a proposed Shell pipeline which could bring
economic prosperity or destroy a way of life shared for generations.
As pressure from the Irish government and Shell mounts, five local men
go to jail, the community descends into infighting over compensation,
the local headmistress goes on hunger strike and only one lone
fisherman is all that stands between the worlds largest pipelaying
ship - The Solitaire - and a way of life shared for generations.
Variety calls the film "first rate", Screen Daily says it is
"engrossing and provocative...a fascinating and challenging film".

Indywire: The premise is reminiscent of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 comedy
"Local Hero," in which an American oil company faces cultural clashes
with the inhabitants of a Scottish village. In "Local Hero" the
dynamics could be played for laughs, but in "The Pipe" the real-life
stakes have dire consequences. The film plunges us into violent
clashes between protesters and police. As tensions mount, the
community divides over how to confront Shell. The conflict widens to
draw in Catholic priests and even the Irish political leader,
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.  http://www.indiewire.com/film/the_pipe/