THE world premiere of two new films about the incredible Scottish Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and their coastal communities takes place on July 20 on the Isle of Arran.

Curated by Art and Environment Organisation, Invisible Dust, Shore: How We See the Sea will tour across Scotland over 18 months to communities with close connections to the sea and Marine Protected Areas, from Barra to Edinburgh.

Margaret Salmon is an award winning filmmaker who has just been nominated for the Jarman Award 2018 and Ed Webb-Ingall is a community video maker who is interested in how communities voices are heard through video making.

Shore: How We See The Sea has been developed by Invisible Dust with support from Creative Scotland and the Wellcome Trust to inspire, connect and reflect responses of Scotland’s coastal communities to the Marine Protected Areas two years after their legal designation in 2016.

Invisible Dust has worked with both filmmakers to form collaborations with scientists from the Scottish Association of Marine Sciences (SAMS) in Oban and develop relationships with Coast, marine conservation organisation and local fishing and other communities in Arran and Wester Ross.

The two filmmakers have responded with different ways of working.

Margaret Salmon who is well know for her mystical atmospheric filming of natural settings concentrates on filming indigenous habitats and species, as well her own perceptive viewpoint of human interactions with the sea, both those of locals and of tourists.

Ed Webb Ingall is fascinated by community filmmaking and has worked for over a year building relationships with local groups, showing them community videos and creating workshops for them to contribute their ideas about the sea.

The launch event will see the films premiere in the mobile Screen Machine alongside storytelling sessions with Local Voices, screening of feature documentary Chasing Coral and hands-on activities encouraging all ages to become citizen marine scientists.