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Bringing communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change, in Scotland and beyond.

Our 2025 film festivals across Scotland are now live for booking! takeoneaction.org.uk/events/
🌻Community amidst chaos: Programmed by five wonderful young people from Hot Chocolate Trust! Following delicious food and a screening of Knit's Island, the young people will lead us in conversation around the importance of nurturing community in both virtual and physical spaces. 🎟️ > bit.ly/43TkEbK
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Alyssa from Living Rent Dundee connects the radical spirit of 'Red Skirts on Clydeside' and the Glasgow Rent Strikes to parallel, lesser-known strikes in Dundee too! ✊🏡

Join us at 3pm on Saturday 8 November at Steps Theatre in Dundee 🎟️: takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If this all sounds like more of what you need, there's still time to catch Real Utopias for our final festival weekend this year in Dundee: don't miss out!

Tickets and full programme 🎟️: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/events/?regi...

📸 Kat Gollock & Ingrid Mur
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We're overjoyed that our festival has been such a source of hope, inspiration, and connection for you! 🥹
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here's what you've had to say about our Real Utopias film festivals so far in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness 💬
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Grasping with both hands the joy, tenderness and tenacity that jumps through the screen, stay on after the screening for poetry readings and reflections from artist Leyla Hussain to celebrate trans life lived to its fullest!

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/ninxs-dundee/
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
💓 All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20)
💓 The film will be presented with descriptive subtitles and the introduction and conversation will have live captions.
💓 Audience access fund available to support travel and childcare for folk who need it.
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
💌 NIÑXS in Dundee!

Join us at Steps Theatre on 8 November for NIÑXS – a stunningly warm, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age documentary where trans youth get to tell their own stories. 🏳️‍⚧️

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/ninxs-dundee/
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's been a joy partnering with Living Rent in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Inverness, where they've run rousing workshops bringing tenant organising right to our doorsteps.

Join us for the final Living Rent screening + event in Dundee!

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Don't miss your last chance to catch 'Red Skirts' with us and Living Rent in Dundee! Here's what audiences had to say so far:

"I am so grateful for the rich radical history that has been bestowed upon us."

"Learn from history. Throw enemies in the midden."
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🏠 RED SKIRTS ON CLYDESIDE – programmed by Scotland's mighty tenants' union, Living Rent!

👉 Sat 8 November | 3pm at Steps Theatre

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Join some of the young people from Hot Chocolate Trust for a workshop exploring how we build community in increasingly polarised, pressurised, and chaotic times!

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/knits-island-dundee/
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In 'Knit's Island', three curious film-makers step virtually into post-apocalyptic survivalist game DayZ, and learn from other players how cooperative gameplay can create a sense of community. 🎮
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎮 KNIT'S ISLAND
👉 Sun 9 November | 3pm | Hot Chocolate

We're delighted to have a film and post-screening workshop curated by the young people at Hot Chocolate as part of our inaugural Dundee festival! 🤩

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/knits-island-dundee/
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Inverness pals! Our Real Utopias festival is starting tomorrow and there's so much going on.

The festival will feature films from Mexico to the UK, Kenya and Japan, exploring ideas from community responses to climate change to the power of libraries, tenants’ rights and trans identity and thriving.
October 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🗞️✂️From Junk to Joy: Zine Workshop (Inverness)📖🧶

WHEN: Sunday Oct 12, 2pm at Highland Zine Bothy!

✊Inspired by How To Build a Library, this sustainable zine-making workshop invites you to dig into the possibilities of scrap, story, and solidarity.
October 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
See you there - let's build Real Utopias together!
September 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
⛓️‍💥 DISMANTLING TECH FANTASIES 🌐

Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI.

Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM!

www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🫘Join us at Platform Easterhouse on 25 Sep for the final event of Beans on Screen, a food-filled community research project culminating in a film screening and conversation with local residents and food charity Nourish. Project funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social Get your tickets here bit.ly/3JH5Dmt 🎟️
September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our screening of Union on September 20th at the Filmhouse Edinburgh will include an introduction from Chris Smalls - founder of the Amazon Labor Union - especially recorded for Take One Action!

👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...
August 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“The great waiting utopia is the old slogan of solidarity, that’s our greatest weapon.”

Great to hear from our patrons, two legends of cinema, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty.

👉This year’s Take One Action is on the theme of Real Utopias! Screenings in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness & Dundee.
August 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
💫 IT’S HERE! 💫

Watch the trailer for Take One Action Film Festivals 2025 and dive into our Real Utopias programme!

EDINBURGH | GLASGOW | INVERNESS | DUNDEE

ACCESS:
🎟️ All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20)
💬 All films with descriptive subtitles

Get your tickets now: www.takeoneaction.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
👋 We’re BACK!

Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:

〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)

We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!
July 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
We’ve been asking our team to share their four favourite films ahead of this year’s festival (an idea shamelessly stolen from Letterboxd!).

Here’s the legendary Daisy Crooke sharing her picks 🫛🎥

👉Which four movies would you pick?
July 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It was an absolute pleasure to work with Culture For Climate Scotland to put Green Tease together in Aberdeen!

With grassroots campaigners, artists and cultural practitioners, we gathered at The Anatomy Rooms for a film screening and conversation to explore climate justice.
July 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM