Cove Park’s first Film Residency will take place this May 2016. It seeks to support a mid-career screenwriter / director, based in Scotland, making self-authored work, and has been awarded to Ainslie Henderson.

Ainslie is a writer/director/animator/who in 2012 was awarded a BAFTA for his co-writing of ‘The Making of Longbird’. Ainslie’s films “I Am Tom Moody” and “Monkey Love Experiments” were both BAFTA nominated, and have won over 60 international festival awards, including; Best British Short at Encounters, Disney; Best Student Film at Ottawa; The Special Jury Crystal at Annecy and Edinburgh International Film Festival’s McLaren Award. Ainslie has a particular love for stop frame animation and is currently freelancing in Edinburgh.