An audience of more than 50 enjoyed an award-winning documentary made by a film director with strong connections to Arran when the Screen Machine was in Brodick recently.
Karen Guthrie visited the island for the showing of her autobiographical film The Closer We Get, a bittersweet story which goes under the skin of an astonishing story of broken dreams, loyalty and, perhaps, redemption. It is told by a reluctantly dutiful daughter, Karen herself, who was working as a film-maker in London when her mother Ann had a devastating stroke that took Karen back to care for her in her Ayrshire hometown.
But Karen isn’t the only one who returns in crisis. Her prodigal father, the endearing but unfathomable Ian, also reappears after years of separation from Ann.