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Hamish McAlpine in conversation with Peter Bradshaw

Few independent film distribution companies make a name for themselves - one that is remembered and recognised - but before it folded it 2008, Tartan films had achieved that honour - largely due to the bold and unorthodox leadership of Hamish McAlpine. A man with an uncanny eye for a great film, who established Tartans reputation as a distributor of great arthouse and horror cinema, he also allegedly dressed up as Beatrice Dalle when the French actress failed to turn up to a press junket, and held a knife to the throat of a US executive in order to demonstrate that film was a cut throat business.

To get the inside story, join us as the enfant terrible himself talks with Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw for one night only.