Seachd:_The_Inaccessible_Pinnacle
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle
2007 British film
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is a 2007 Scottish Gaelic-language Scottish film by first-time director, Simon Miller from a story by Simon Miller and Joanne Cockwell. It stars Patrick Morrison/Pàdruig Moireasdan and the Gaelic writer and poet Angus Peter Campbell/Aonghas Pàdraig Chaimbeul. It is the first contemporary feature-length film in Scottish Gaelic[1] and was based on a previous Gaelic short film, Foighidinn - The Crimson Snowdrop, also by Miller.[2]
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Filming began in April 2006 around the Inaccessible Pinnacle at the top of Sgùrr Dearg in the Cuillin mountains on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, and was completed in August 2006. The film screened at the Celtic Media Festival in March 2007,[3] and made its world premiere at the 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival in August 2007.[1]
The word seachd (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ʃaxk]) in the title means "seven" and references the number of stories the grandfather originally told.[1]