Ros Borland
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Ros Borland worked in film production for many years, moving up the ranks from runner to producer. Her first feature film as producer (with Catherine Aitken), Afterlife, starring Kevin McKidd, won the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2003 and was released theatrically in the UK in 2004. Her second feature, Wild Country, starring Martin Compston and Peter Capaldi opened the FrightFest Festival in London 2005 and was theatrically released in 2006. Ros co-produced Kevin MacDonald’s The Last King of Scotland which won an Academy Award for Forest Whitaker as Best Actor.
Ros decided to leave production and start writing in 2007. She set up a property business to support this and has been writing plays and film scripts ever since. In 2023 she recorded Dark Soul, a supernatural thriller ‘Film for the ears’ in association with RNIB Scotland. It is going out to film festivals as an inclusive cinematic event and will be released as a podcast autumn 2024. It has been nominated for a Torc award at the Celtic Media Festival.
Ros is currently writing several feature films and an anti-stalking play, Verbatim.
The Bridge Awards Residency was launched in 2023. Designed specifically for artists based in Scotland recovering from breast cancer, the 2023 residency was awarded to the Fife-based artist Susanne Nørregård Nielsen. Building upon the success of this first individual residency, we are launched a one-week group residency in May 2024. The participating artists included: film producer and writer Ros Borland, creative arts practitioner, teacher, and facilitator Abbey Craig, writer Moira McPartlin, and visual artist Krissy Stewart. The 2024 group residency also includes a music and wellbeing session generously offered by Scottish Ensemble.
Now, in its third year, Cove Park is pleased to offer a further four fully funded residencies in 2025. We are grateful to The Bridge Awards for making this residency possible, and to Maggie’s for their support.
