“A key element of the festival is making it available to all. After all, the climate crisis affects everyone on the planet.”

The Sunday Post

Small festival, wide reach. From national headlines and radio airwaves to local front pages and independent film publications, LandxSea is attracting growing attention across Scotland and beyond.

In 2026, LandxSea secured 33 media stories across 23 titles, including six substantial features, with a potential audience of 56.2 million. Online coverage had an average Domain Authority of 53.8, indicating strong visibility across established media platforms.

This coverage helps environmental films, filmmakers and ideas reach wider audiences. It also gives our supporters and partners meaningful visibility across trusted platforms and new communities.

2026 Press Highlights

Selected press coverage, interviews and features from the 2026 LandxSea Film Festival.

• 11 Sep 2026 Rewilder’s film calls on us to look to the future — The Courier
• 11 Sep 2026 LandxSea Festival preview — Radio Tay FM
• 10 Sep 2026 Scientists bring barley, whisky and climate research to LandxSea Festival — Global Agriculture
• 9 Sep 2026 Scottish fishing community’s defiance celebrated in Netflix film — The National
• 5 Sep 2026 Behind the scenes of film about James Hutton and unsung Scottish poet — The Herald
• 4 Sep 2026 What to see in Scotland: from Barack Obama to Susan Calman — The Times
• 30 Aug 2026 Message that crosses borders — The National
• 30 Aug 2026 Scottish farmer’s rewilding battle against intensive farming highlighted in new documentary — The Sunday Post
• 25 Aug 2026 From the Arctic to Angus: Filmmakers and changemakers head to Montrose for LandxSea — Screen Scotland
• 24 Aug 2026 LandxSea Film Festival — Caught by the River
• 24 Jul 2026 Ambitious programme for annual Montrose film festival — Angus World
• 24 Jul 2026 Climate, conflict and conservation collide at LandxSea Film Festival — Environment Journal
• 23 Jul 2026 Climate films at centre of environmental fest — The National

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Press Gallery

Selected newspaper, magazine and broadcast coverage from recent festivals.

 

The National, 2026

 

The Sunday Post, 2026

The Herald, 2025

The Courier, 2025

Edinburgh Evening News, 2025

The National, 2025

STV News, 2024

The Sunday Post, 2023

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Coverage Archive

Browse LandxSea press, broadcast and editorial coverage by year.

2025 Select Coverage

• 24 Sep 2025 Montrose film festival is a huge success for its organisers — Angus County Press
• 18 Sep 2025 Angus environmental film festival recognises director’s debut feature — The Courier
• 11 Sep 2025 Edinburgh pupil stars in film tackling some of the world’s biggest polluters over the climate crisis — Edinburgh News
• 5 Sep 2025 Six Dundee events to inspire this September — The Courier
• 27 Aug 2025 Film festival highlights fight against climate emergency — The National
• 14 Aug 2025 Film Festival to Make Waves — Evening Telegraph
• 8 Aug 2025 Leading film festival returns to Montrose for the third year — Angus County Press
• 7 Aug 2025 Leo DiCaprio film to be screened at Scots environmental film festival — The Herald
• 26 Mar 2025 Where to Invest in Property in 2025 — The Times

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2024 Select Coverage

• 1 Nov 2024 Chance to see trilogy of films on Trump’s Scots golf course pursuit — The Courier
• 24 Sep 2024 Eco festival turns big screens green — The Courier
• 13 Sep 2024 Interview with Anthony Baxter — TAY FM
• 13 Sep 2024 Coastal Erosion Summit — Evening News / STV Dundee and Tayside
• 13 Sep 2024 Great Box Office — The Herald
• 13 Sep 2024 From Climbing to Diving: five adventure film festivals coming to Scotland — The Scotsman
• 12 Sep 2024 Interview with Puffling director Selma Rún Scheving Jónsdóttir — BBC Radio Scotland
• 10 Sep 2024 Looking for Bo: the touching search for one of Scotland’s precious mountain hares — The Herald
• 9 Sep 2024 Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story review — Sunday Morning with Cathy Macdonald, BBC Radio Scotland
• 8 Sep 2024 Billy & Molly: new film about a Shetland couple and a rescued otter — Press & Journal
• 6 Sep 2024 Scotland on Screen: In Praise of Far-Flung Film Festivals — The Skinny
• 1 Sep 2024 A Love Story Like No Otter — The Sunday Post
• 7 Aug 2024 Environmental film festival returns to Montrose for second year — The Herald
• 7 Aug 2024 Montrose Coastal Erosion Summit to feature in second LandxSea Film Festival — The Courier
• 7 Aug 2024 Scottish environmental film festival returns for second year — The National
• 7 Aug 2024 Programme announced for second annual Montrose LandxSea Film Fest — Screen Scotland
• 19 Jul 2024 Climate I grew up with is gone—that’s why Montrose residents are speaking up on coastal erosion — The Courier

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2023 Select Coverage

• 18 Sep 2023 Climate crisis is focus of movie festival — The Courier
• 12 Sep 2023 Festival preview with Anthony Baxter and Graham Fellows — The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Scotland
• 11 Sep 2023 Festival preview — Radio Tay
• 10 Sep 2023 Scotland’s first climate-focused film festival heads for Montrose — The Sunday Post
• 9 Sep 2023 Waves of Support — The Courier Magazine
• 9 Sep 2023 Festival preview with Rachel Caplan — Out of Doors, BBC Radio Scotland
• 20 Aug 2023 Montrose LandxSea Film Festival — Caught by the River
• 17 Aug 2023 First Ever Montrose LandxSea Film Festival — Angus County Press
• 9 Aug 2023 Green Screen Premiere — The Scotsman
• 9 Aug 2023 Film festival to shine a light on climate issues — The Courier
• 8 Aug 2023 Scotland’s Only Climate-Focused Film Festival — Evening News / STV
• 8 Aug 2023 LandxSea: Scotland’s first climate-themed film festival — The Herald
• 20 Jun 2023 Environment in the frame at film festival — The Courier

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2022 Pilot Weekend

• 14 Apr 2022 Montrose to host first film festival as You’ve Been Trumped hits the big screen — The Courier

This pilot event helped lay the groundwork for the launch of the first full LandxSea Film Festival in 2023.

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