Archive · 30 Jul 2025
Thelma Schoonmaker to attend Edinburgh Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is happening from August 14th to 20th.
A famous film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, will be at the festival to talk about her late husband, Michael Powell, who was also a filmmaker.
She will be speaking in a special session on August 17th.
Before that, she'll introduce a showing of her husband's classic film 'The Edge of the World'.
Other famous people in the film industry will also be at the festival.
The festival will start with a movie called 'Sorry, Baby' and end with a documentary about Irvine Welsh.
Thelma Schoonmaker will attend the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).
She will chair an In Conversation session focused on her late husband, Michael Powell.
The event is scheduled for August 17 at the Tollcross Central Hall.
Schoonmaker will also introduce a screening of Powell’s 'The Edge of the World'.
The EIFF will take place from August 14-20.
- Who
- Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Powell, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’Brien, Kevin Macdonald, Andrew Macdonald, Andrea Arnold, Eva Victor, Irvine Welsh.
- What
- Thelma Schoonmaker will attend the Edinburgh International Film Festival for an 'In Conversation' session about her late husband Michael Powell, and introduce a screening of 'The Edge of the World'.
- When
- The EIFF runs from August 14-20; Schoonmaker's session is on August 17.
- Where
- Edinburgh, specifically Tollcross Central Hall.
- Why
- The EIFF is an event to celebrate and showcase films and the people who make them.
- Festival Name
- Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF)
- Dates
- August 14-20
- Thelma Schoonmaker Event Date
- August 17
- Location of Event
- Tollcross Central Hall
- Featured Film
- The Edge of the World