Coming soon here is a selection of awards season favourites. 

Debuting on 4 February 2022 is the biographical drama ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ with Jessica Chastain (The 355) and Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Boom!) as the controversial televangelists Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker whom, during the 1970s and 80s, created the largest religious broadcast network and theme park in the world. For her leading performance as the eponymous character, an unrecognisable Chastain (who also produces) has received Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominations. Praise be!

Also released on 4 February 2022 is the semi-autobiographical drama ‘The Souvenir Part II’ from writer, directed and producer Joanna Hogg about her life at film school. Nominated for nine British Independent Film Awards, winning three, this film serves as a sequel to ‘The Souvenir’ from 2019 which was equally critically acclaimed. Honor Swinton Byrne (The Souvenir), Richard Ayoade (Submarine), Harris Dickinson (The King’s Man), Charlie Heaton (The New Mutants), Joe Alwyn (Boy Erased) and Tilda Swinton (Memoria) comprise most of the ensemble cast.

Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) comes the comedy-drama ‘The Duke’ with Jim Broadbent (Iris), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Anna Maxwell Martin (The Personal History of David Copperfield) and Matthew Goode (Official Secrets). Released on 25 February 2022, we follow Kempton Bunton (Broadbent), a disabled British pensioner who stole a painting from the National Gallery in 1961 offering to return it in exchange for free TV licences for the elderly.

Watch this space for film reviews.

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In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.

By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.

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Adam Zawadzki
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.