Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald to take charge of Edinburgh film festival

Macdonald is to create a new organisation to run the festival, after the collapse of its previous operator last year

Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald has been appointed chair of the Edinburgh international film festival in order to create a new organisation to run the festival from its 2024 edition onwards, after the abrupt collapse of its previous operator, the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) in October 2022.

Isabel Davis, executive director of Screen Scotland said: [Macdonald] was one of the first to offer support when the previous organisation collapsed and with his customary vigour, [he] has already been instrumental in bringing people together to build an exciting new vision for what Edinburgh international film festival can become."