Eleanor Yule

ELEANOR YULE is a Scottish writer, film director and screenwriting lecturer. Her first comedy short, ‘A Small Deposit’, was nominated for a UK BAFTA. Her first feature film, ‘Blinded’, inspired a genre - ‘Celtic Noir’, won the Jury Award at the Celtic International Film Festival and was nominated for EIFF’s Michael Powell award premiering in competition in Taormina, Sicily. She collaborated with ex - python Michael Palin to produce, ‘Palin on Art’, a series of bespoke films for the BBC documenting the lives of overlooked painters. Their most recent offering, ‘Michael Palin in Wyeth’s World’, won two Royal Television Society awards. Her latest short film, ‘Love cake’, is a sweet romance with an erotic twist, and was a sugar-fuelled collaboration with award winning writer Mandy Lee which premiered at last years Edinburgh Short Film Festival. Eleanor was trained as part of the Film council and Scottish Screen initiative, ‘Training the Trainers’ – brainchild of script guru Phil Parker. As a result she has been running Screenwriting courses for short and feature length film in venues and Universities across Scotland. She is in constant demand to deliver masterclasses and has recently published a co- authored a controversial book on Scottish film, 'The Glass Half Full – Moving Beyond Scottish Miserablism', for Luath Press to coincide with the recent Scottish Independence referendum.