The Cat Loud Archive

a life in cabaret!

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This website is now the scrapbook of a cabaret performer who went in a new direction, very much for the best. 

She’s had a wonderful time - onwards!

Photo: Snookie Mono

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GFF New Talent Mentorship 2021/22

Another big week for me, as I finally get to say - out loud - that I'm one of the filmmakers selected for the GFF New Talent Mentorship Scheme 2021/22, and that my mentor for the next six months will be - pinch me - ISABELLE SIEB! Vigil just hit 26.5 million streams, and yes, most were probably me. Cannot wait to get started.

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The lights are back on at Mull Theatre, and it’s all systems go as we get stuck into rehearsals for Every Brilliant Thing.

It’s a play about depression and grief. It’s powerful and warm and deeply confrontational - of our own coping mechanisms and the way in which society brushes things under the rug. 

It feels so good to be in a room again, making magic happen. 

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First film commission. FIRST FILM COMMISSION!

Delighted to be making my first short film as part of GMAC’s Little Pictures scheme.

‘Little Lark’ follows a languishing youth whose melancholy existence is interrupted by the arrival of Lark - a devoted Francophile and all-round bon vivant. 

I’ll be filming on the beautiful Isle of Mull, and can’t wait to get started.

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Delighted to have the opportunity to start developing my short film 'Dancing on Sand' with one of Vanishing Point's Everyone Is Creative grants. 

Alongside producer and creative collaborator Misha McCullagh, we will be strategising shooting the hybrid theatre-film piece on Mull. I'm passionate about championing island talent, and very much want the project to involve members of the local community as well as professionals from and based on Scottish islands. Watch this space...

Read about all eleven selected projects here!

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AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER OVER HERE

Delighted that our wee film has won Best Micro Short at Phoenix Short Film Festival. 

Can’t stop, won't stop!

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Wanting to get creative, but can’t see the wood for the trees? IMAGINATION LAB is a good place to start. A series of relaxed workshops intended to shake off the cobwebs, hone your thoughts and get you writing. Using pre-existing art, the idea is to jump-start your writing process by encouraging you to think of characters, themes and atmosphere as the foundations of a story - any story - and provide prompts to set you off on your own road towards writing something that excites you. These digital workshops will be lead by me - Catriona MacLeod - an award-winning writer, cabaret performer and filmmaker from Tobermory. Book a place by emailing [email protected]

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👌🏻BIG NEWS💫

Delighted to be one of ten writers selected for Short Circuit’s Convergence screenwriting programme. I’ll be spending the next few months developing a short and a feature under the excellent guidance of David Pope, and in the company of these brilliant writers:

Andrew Thompson

Anna Moore

Joanne Thomson

Louise Oliver

Miranda Stern

Niloo-Far Khan

Paul Sng

Raman Mundair

Sheila Duncan

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personal space | a micro-short | 2021

A film about space(s), by Catriona MacLeod. https://catloud.co.uk Filmed on an iPhone Soundtrack: 'Interstellar Space Journey', Martin Englert

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a micro-short, coming soon

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New phone, hubris? 

A growing collection of laurels for our short film HOWL, made on a mobile, in lockdown. So proud.

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Misha McCullagh and I have a favour to ask you. Our short film 'HOWL' made the shortlist for the WhoUKnow Creative Festival 2021, and the winner is decided by public vote. Spare a few minutes to cast a vote for us? There's a cash prize up for grabs, which would do nicely in helping us fund our next project. We've got plans afoot! All you need to do is: 1) follow this link: https://lnkd.in/d-XTJ5n 2) type 'Catriona MacLeod & Misha McCullagh' into the vote box 3) CAST YOUR VOTE. CHANGE OUR LIVES*.   Thank you! *a verified fact

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My first short, now with 100% more laurels, courtesy of Venice Shorts.

So proud of Misha, and so proud of our sheer audacity.

Watch HOWL here.

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‘Zoom: A Tribute’, made for Glasgow Film Festival’s 20-second film challenge, #GFF2020UnderTwenty! 

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If I get into trouble for using this song, I'm going to laugh more than I already am.  

BEHIND THE SCENES of our short film HOWL, or Us Laughing On Zoom.

A writer with a deadline tries to write, but her thoughts refuse to play nice. 

Starring & shot by Misha McCullagh, written, directed & edited by Cat MacLeod  for The End - a collaborative drama game in which the story is handed from Scottish female filmmaker to Scottish female filmmaker.

Watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk6kTVXJvzc&feature=emb_logo

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HOWL - a short for The End Series

A writer with a deadline tries to write, but her thoughts refuse to play nice... Starring & shot by Misha McCullagh Written, directed & edited by Cat MacLeod The End is a collaborative drama game in which the story is handed from Scottish female filmmaker to Scottish female filmmaker. Everyone ‘nominated’ is the showrunner for their episode, which means they can pick up on an earlier episode or start a brand new storyline. They can write/act/direct entirely themselves, or they can ask anyone they like to collaborate with them. Nothing needs to be approved — the only rule is that it can’t undermine or negate story that has come before — so every showrunner has total creative ownership. More at https://theendtheseries.co.uk/