Whisky Galore! (2016 film)
Whisky Galore!
is a 2016 British film, a remake of the 1949 Ealing Comedy of the same name.
It was directed by Gillies MacKinnon and stars Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Sean Biggerstaff and Naomi Battrick.
The film premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Film Festival and went on general release in Scotland from 5 May 2017 and the rest of the UK, Ireland and the US from 19 May 2017.
The principal film location was Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios, starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson.
It was the directorial debut of Alexander Mackendrick; the screenplay was by Compton Mackenzie, an adaptation of his 1947 novel" Whisky Galore", and Angus MacPhail.
The story —based on a true event—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of wartime rationing.
The islanders find out the ship is carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, which they salvage, against the opposition of the local Customs and Excise men.
It was filmed on the island of Barra; the weather was so poor that the production over- ran its 10- week schedule by five weeks, and the film went £ 20,000 over budget.
Michael Balcon, the head of the studio, was unimpressed by the initial cut of the film, and one of Ealing's directors, Charles Crichton, added footage and re-edited the film before its release.
Like other Ealing comedies," Whisky Galore!" explores the actions of a small insular group facing and overcoming a more powerful opponent.
An unspoken sense of community runs through the film, and the story reflects a time when the British Empire was weakening.
" Whisky Galore!" was well received on release.
It came out in the same year as" Passport to Pimlico" and" Kind Hearts and Coronets", leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies.
In the US, where" Whisky Galore!" was renamed" Tight Little Island", the film became the first from the studios to achieve box office success.
It was followed by a sequel," Rockets Galore!
Whisky Galore!" has since been adapted for the stage, and a remake was released in 2016.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Ian Barry (director)
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Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter.
He attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting.
Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months.
In the 1970s he studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and in the 1980s in the National Film and Television School.
He made a short film called "Passing Glory" as his graduation piece, a dour recreation of Glasgow in the 1950s and 1960s.
It was premiered at the 1986 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the first Scottish Film Prize.
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? is a 1973 French- Italian comedy war film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
The film portrays the adventures of a French Army squad lost somewhere on the front in May 1940 during the Battle of France.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
The Seventh Company Outdoors
The Seventh Company Outdoors is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Robert Lamoureux.
It is a sequel to Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to ?.

Question: Where did the director of film Whisky Galore! (2016 Film) study?
Answer: National Film and Television School