What is it about
this wee place?
By Ben Lawers and the Tarmachan ridge, where the River Dochart spills over the falls to meet Loch Tay, sits the village of Killin. Ask the people who live there, and those who moved away, what makes it special, and nobody can quite put a finger on it. But everyone agrees there is something.
"The village has something. I cannot put my finger on it, and I could not tell you what it is. But it has something." Jackie Bremner
Across eight chapters and over forty voices, born-and-bred and newcomers, farmers and returners, Heart of the Highlands works through the heritage and the land, the businesses and the seasons, the events and the characters who hold it all together.
It is not a postcard, and not an elegy for something lost. It is a living place, still changing and still being chosen, where belonging is earned by showing up and a local can be someone who only arrived last year. As for what truly gives Killin its soul, that is the one thing you will have to come and see for yourself.
Heritage · The Land · Business & Tourism · Community · The Seasons · Events · Characters
Forty-odd voices.
One village.
A few of the people you will meet, and the something they all feel but cannot quite name.
To a lot of people, Killin has a special something. But I do not know what that is nowadays.
I am now in Tasmania, which could not get much further away from Killin. Thirty-something hours flying to get here. But I feel like I am still connected into the village.
A neighbour knocked my door with a set of keys and said, these are for my house. Take them, use it as you wish, sit in my conservatory, use the internet all day long.
The trailer
A glimpse of the village, its faces and its falls. Then come and see the whole story on the big screen.
Can't be in
the room?
Following the premiere screening, the full documentary comes to YouTube. Subscribe now and you will be there the moment it lands, wherever in the world Killin has pulled you.
One night. One screen.
250 seats.
The premiere. The very first time Heart of the Highlands meets an audience, on the big screen, in the village it was made and among the people who are in it. The first chance to see it, hear it, and feel it in a room together, before it goes anywhere else. When these seats are gone, they're gone.
This is a community film. Tickets start at £5 - pay more if you can, and every extra pound goes straight into finishing and screening it.
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