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- ↑ "Creative Scotland reveals £1m pilots plan to put Scottish film industry 'back on map'". STV News. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ↑ "Putting the Edinburgh back into EIFF". 16 June 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
