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12/12/12 – what a cool date for our exclusive preview of FUTURE MY LOVE in London, and what a great place for it: The RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges.

Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong fellowship, RSA seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world.

The screening of Maja Borg's film is followed by a discussion with the director and a reception in the lobby.

Following an acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, we're very happy to announce the international premiere (the first screening outside Scotland) of FUTURE MY LOVE in Copenhagen in November.

CPH:DOX is at the forefront of innovative documentary festivals, challenging traditional boundaries between film genres as well as linking film, media, art and music. A perfect fit for FUTURE MY LOVE.

Crossing the Line, Glasgow Film Festival's experimental film strand is coming to the Glasgow Film Theatre. They have selected FUTURE MY LOVE for an exclusive one-off screening on 2 December. Here's their announcement:

"Fresh from critically acclaimed screenings at this year’s EIFF, Maja Borg’s poetic ‘experimental documentary’ takes us on a road trip through the financial collapse, exploring a radically different economic and social model proposed by sprightly ninety-five-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco. Personalising this journey by also exploring the end of her romantic relationship, Borg asks: how much freedom are we prepared to give to the ones we love? And how much responsibility are we ready to take for our society? Carefully weaving archive footage, black and white Super 8 film, and colour HD, this is a poignant depiction of the universal struggle between our heads and hearts in times of big change. We're delighted that director Maja Borg will introduce and take part in a Q&A following this screening."

Secure your ticket here.

Here's a video sent by Jacque and Roxanne in response to Maja's film. It was shown to the audience at the world premiere of FUTURE MY LOVE at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

In the February 2013 edition of Dazed and Confused, "cinephile extraordinaire" Mark Cousins says about FUTURE MY LOVE:

“Maja’s Future My Love is a passionate, inventive epistle about the end of days. It’s a rare, lovely, generous, caring, hurt, recovering film, like Adam Curtis meets Star Trek. I loved it.”

The film had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, in competition for the Michael Powell Award for the best British film. Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of EIFF, called it a "visionary documentary". 

Influential Scottish magazine The Skinny has given the film four stars (the highest rating among their EIFF reviews):

"Complimented by a resonant orchestral score and feather-soft narration, Future My Love is beautiful, but never flimsy. While its originality resides in the suggestion we are married to damaging societal structures, its ambition lies in its faith we would ever consider a divorce."

Also by The Skinny, introducing an additional interview:

"So emerged Maja Borg’s film of future and economy, with honesty clasped to its core. Surely reason enough to applaud. But the Swedish filmmaker has also sacrificed her own experiences with love on truth’s insatiable altar to further illuminate matters."

There have been dozens of Tweets following the world premiere, all very positive, such as this one from @robertoalien:

"Maja Borg's @FutureMyLove beautiful, moving, poetic, important @edfilmfest like it, love it, share it, retweet it!" 

Celebrate the world premiere of FUTURE MY LOVE at EIFF with a magical concert of the award-winning New Tide Orquesta (NTO) on Wednesday 27 June, followed by a launch party hosted by the Scottish Documentary Institute.

Formerly known as New Tango Orquesta, six excellent musicians from Sweden have taken modern tango to new levels – and also provided the score for Maja Borg’s film.

We're very happy that Future My Love has been nominated for the prestigious Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012. This was announced today by Chris Fujiwara, Artistic Director of EIFF (pictured).

Named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award rewards imagination and creativity in British filmmaking.

After five years in the making, we're delighted to announce the World Premiere of Future My Love. Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Maja Borg, Future My Love has been selected for the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).

This was announced at the EIFF press conference this morning (pictured).