{"id":246582,"date":"2025-07-08T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246582\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:18:12","slug":"eiff-the-golden-spurtle-documentary-to-be-released-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246582\/","title":{"rendered":"EIFF &#8211; The Golden Spurtle &#8211; documentary to be released in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the films in this year\u2019s Edinburgh International Film Festival \u2013 The Golden Spurtle \u2013 will be released on 12 September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary by Constantine Costi is \u201cwitty and beautifully shot\u201d and tells the story of the competition fought in Cartridge to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion. Amid the steaming bowls of porridge there is a story to be told.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way is self-titled Chieftain of the Golden Spurtle Charlie Miller, an acerbic wit, charisma and no-nonsense approach to all things porridge. A maker of spurtles \u2013 which are used to stir the porridge \u2013 Charlie is an artist at heart. Since taking ill he is looking for a successor to take over as Chieftain. But with no-one in sight, Charlie is left to shoulder the burden of the championship\u2019s uncertain future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With striking cinematography illuminating both the film\u2019s memorable characters and the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands, inspired by the work of photographers such as August Sander and Martin Parr, this is a visually ambitious delight for film and food fans alike.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film is directed by Constantine Cosi (A Delicate Fire) with cinematography by Dimitri Zaunders. The film is produced by Rebecca Lamond (Friends and Strangers) and co-produced by John Archer (My Old School, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The film will have its UK premiere at this year\u2019s Edinburgh International Film Festival on 17 August. \u00a0The Golden Spurtle is released in UK cinemas on 12 September 2025.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/goldenspurtle_thumbnail-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604805\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/goldenspurtle_thumbnail-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604806\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/goldenspurtle_thumbnail-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604807\"  \/>Pictured: Chieftain of the Golden Spurtle Charlie Miller in his Spurtle-making workshop<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/07\/eiff-the-golden-spurtle-documentary-to-be-released-in-september\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751933891_996_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/07\/eiff-the-golden-spurtle-documentary-to-be-released-in-september\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751933892_352_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/phyllis-stephen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751933892_397_Phyllis-Summer-2022-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.<br \/>Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the films in this year\u2019s Edinburgh International Film Festival \u2013 The Golden Spurtle \u2013 will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4154,4155,95633,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-246582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","11":"tag-edinburgh-news","12":"tag-eiff","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}