Alan Morrison Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Leader of the team that provides funding for all genres of music including recordings, touring, festivals, showcases, multi-arts venues, artist research and development, and industry sector support. Creative Scotland is the public body that supports the arts, screen and creative industries across Scotland on behalf of everyone who lives, works and visits.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Arts and culture features and reviews, including weekly spread on Scottish music in The National.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for all arts and literary content across The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times newspapers and the HeraldScotland.com website.
• Line manager of the Daily Arts Editor of The Herald and the Group Literary Editor, while commissioning articles and reviews from arts-specific feature writers and a diverse group of staff writers and freelance.
• Responsible for the planning, budgeting, commissioning, editing, picture selection and production layout of The Herald’s weekend Arts supplement and the Sunday Herald’s Arts section
• Authorise the budgets for The Herald’s weekday arts coverage and the literary coverage of all titles
• Represent Herald and Times Ltd at external events and work with the company’s marketing and sponsorship departments to realise major media partnerships (Edinburgh International Festival, Celtic Connections, T in the.
• Writer of cover features and reviews, plus every instalment of the Sunday Herald’s Around The World In 80 DVDs guide to the history and geography of world cinema, and singlehanded compiler of the annual Top 50 Scottish.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Delivering arts and entertainment content for the Sunday Herald across the magazine, main newspaper and website, and realising media partnership/sponsorship deals in conjunction with external clients. Commissioning lifestyle and reportage features when deputising for the Magazine Editor. Responsibility for the vision, look and content of separate arts.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Reviews Editor of the UK’s biggest-selling monthly film magazine with direct responsibility for planning and commissioning the content of over 40 pages every issue. During this time, the magazine enjoyed its best-ever.
• Co-ordinating the coverage of cinema, DVD, film book and soundtrack releases, liaising with film distribution and PR companies and commissioning a team of around 30 writers.
• Successfully re-imagining the magazine’s coverage of DVDs, from concept to final design, to include weightier pieces on older and foreign language titles.
• Representing Empire at international film festivals, premieres and awards ceremonies. Left full-time staff position in February 2004, but continued in a senior role as Contributing Editor, advising on DVD releases and.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Simultaneous with full-time employment at Empire, writer of a weekly spread of film reviews for Scottish daily tabloid newspaper. Expanded its remit to include foreign language, limited and independent releases alongside Hollywood blockbusters.

London, England, United Kingdom

• New post, created specifically by Future Publishing’s dedicated film magazine, included:
• Building contacts between the magazine and the film industry in the UK and Hollywood at publicist, marketing and senior management levels.
• Researching and co-ordinating the magazine’s forward-planning of major features and editing a ten-page, self-contained section on low-budget and independent filmmaking.
• Writing reviews and features across the magazine’s sections.
• Representing Total Film at international film festivals, premieres and awards ceremonies.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Between April 1998 and February 2000, Editor of Central Scotland’s fortnightly arts and entertainment listings and reviews magazine – during which it rose to its highest circulation to date.
• Ultimate responsibility for the content, budgeting, forward-planning and accuracy of the editorial side of the magazine.
• Editorial responsibility for several annual supplements published by The List, including the Student Guide, Eating & Drinking Guide and weekly Edinburgh Festival editions.
• Recruiting/managing a permanent staff of assistant editors and freelance pool of writers.Previous to this, held positions of Deputy Editor, Assistant Editor and Film Editor.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Participant on advisory panel viewing film submissions and selecting titles from other festivals. Programmer of the Midnight Excess strand of late-night films.
• Head of Publications between 1992 and 1995, editing, commissioning, writing and picture research for three publications annually: the Advance Programme, the Official Catalogue and Daily Newsletters.
• Chair of several EIFF’s In Person audience events including Irvine Welsh (2007), Mira Syal (2009), Brenda Blethyn (2009), Sir Patrick Stewart (2010) and Robert Carlyle (2013).

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• I have a huge range of experience contributing to national and international media, including:
• Television – Presenter-interviewer on BBC Choice discussion programme; regular contributor to BBC4’s DVD Show; arts reviewer and commentator on BBC Scotland news, Scottish Television news, Channel 4 news, CNN.
• Radio – Long-time contributor to BBC Radio Scotland, particularly Tom Morton Show, The Usual Suspects, Fred MacAulay Show, Radio Café and Gary Robertson Show; arts reviewer and commentator on BBC World Service, GLR.
• Digital - freelance sub-editor for the National Galleries of Scotland’s website re-launch (2006), writer for Faces & Places touchscreen application at Scottish National Portrait Gallery (2011).
• Print – Editor of Festival Times (1990); contributor to Chambers Film Factfinder (2006) and Chambers Biographical Dictionary (2007); Portrait of the Nation Heritage Lottery Fund application (2007) and Annual Review.
• Festival – Director of the Kirkcaldy Film Festival, held annually at Adam Smith Theatre in Kirkcaldy from 2013-2016; responsible for artistic programme, including screenings, live events and filmmaker on-stage.

Ma (Hons), English Language And Literature

2 Sys, 5 Highers, 9 ‘O’ Grades