In December 2009 Hannah McGill collected the prestigious Talkback Thames New Talent Award at the Women in Film and Television Awards. Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle and Seamus McGarvey are honorary patrons. Her predecessor, Shane Danielsen, served from 2002 to 2006.
The artistic director from September 2006 to 2010 was Hannah McGill, previously a film critic and cinema columnist for The Herald newspaper. There are also several awards given for short films. A jury awards The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film while the audience can vote for the Audience Award, and a panel of judges adjudicates the Best International Feature Award. The film festival shows a range of feature-length films and documentaries as well as short films, animations and music videos. In 2008, the film festival moved from its traditional August slot to June. Linda Myles was director of the Festival from 1973-80, initiating a number of reappraisals and new viewpoints, notably "The Women's Event" organised by Myles, Claire Johnston and Laura Mulvey at the 1972 Festival. Over the subsequent years, the programme expanded to include fiction films and experimental work in addition to documentaries. At the time, Cannes and Venice were the most significant annual film festivals.
The International Festival of Documentary Films, a programme of documentaries, was presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild alongside the 1947 Edinburgh International Festival.
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