” This website is reading like a book of a doric quine, it’s my roots that have made me who I am”
by Dawn Renton Jill rises to the challenges of promoting Doric Some of the Doric TV Team proudly show off their plaque. Doric TV recently won the Group category at… The Doric TV Team has once again risen to Jill’s challenge and produced a submission for the 2022 Doric Film Festival. This year’s theme is ‘A Sense O’ Time’ which… Doric TV are pleased to share their submission for the Doric Film Festival, which was 1 of 12 short films showcased in this year’s event. A collaboration between Jill McWilliam,… By Ellie McDonald Thursday, 8th April 2021, 6:00 am From being Scotland’s ‘little known fourth language’ to gaining an interview with ABC Australia, the Doric language is reaching a global audience…. By Peter Ranscombe – 13th January 2021 FANS ARE TUNING IN FOR DORIC TV MORE than 500 people have joined Doric TV, an online community that was launched in August to promote the… A CHAMPION of Doric language and culture has been shortlisted for a national prize. Filmmaker Jill McWilliam, who runs the Doric Future website, has made the shortlist in the “social… Following on from the ongoing success of Doric TV, the Press and Journal picked up on this particular story featuring local Pictish band, The Trybe. For full information on that… Following the success of the Doric Future website and my You Tube Channel, it became clear to me that a new approach would help pull everything together and give me… Jill Cantlay McWilliam, fae Cruden Bay in Aiberdeenshire, is warkin on a series o Doric films aboot the cultur o the North East. The videographer has been warkin on the… The notion of the Doric Future Website was in recognition of my late ‘faither’, Jimmy Cantlay, of Ogston farm, Slains and all farming folk like him in the north east… Beating the lockdown blues with creativity and the Buchan coast These historical yet catastrophic times are difficult for many people, and can be a particular challenge in many far-reaching ways. Jill… Jill McWilliam wants to keep Doric alive.. Copyright: Steve Cramphorn When Jill McWilliam’s life “slowed to a canny pace” with the onset of lockdown, she decided to share the… Scotland’s Sounds is delighted to share good news from across the network. New Doric Future Website Now Online Doric Future Website was formed in 2019. It is a unique website… Jill’s Lockdown diaries picked up by STV Jill’s lockdown videos collection cover so much of what’s best about accessing the ‘great out doors’ of Scotland. Jill not only promotes the joy… As time goes by it’s sometimes nice just to slow things down a little and get back to the things that really matter. For me it’s a bit like going… I continue to work with members of Cruden Bay Folk Club and take part regularly with concert parties performing at care homes in the Cruden Bay, Peterhead and Ellon areas…. In 2019 I decided the time had come to put all of my focus into 1 online location and I launched Doric Future. The primary objective was to use this… I have a great passion for my homeland of Scotland. In 2019 I ventured into the world of You Tube as a means of documenting my travels as a keen… I helped to form a group to safe guard Port Erroll’s conservation area status. Port Erroll Heritage Group emerged thus realising a dream that old photographs and past information of… Cruden Bay Folk Club Featuring the Folk Club’s female voice choir I have had a long time attachment to the Cruden Bay Folk Club which was formed in 2012, and… I have also volunteered with the Ellon Editor’s (learning disabilities) to help produce their stories and photographs into various publications. With Inspire at Cafe Coast, Aberdeen I worked with a group who had learning disabilities to start off a new project in producing their newsletters. I became involved with the mewly formed Cruden Bay Folk Club who meet in the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in Cruden Bay on the last Friday of every month. For more… I have volunteered with Turning Point, Scotland in Aberdeen, as their newsletter editor, helping to promote people in their quest to find work. As correspondent to The Buchanie for Cruden Bay amongst my many articles I highlighted the importance of preserving Slains Castle. [SLGF id=823] I volunteered with a project called Life Through A Lens, Ellon to help portray how socially isolated people feel. One of my exhibiting images. One of my exhibitions for North East Open Studios NEOS… I used my photographic skills to highlight one of our most iconic ruins in the North East of Scotland. My work the North East Open Studio snowballed onto opening a “Gallery at The Garage”, where all my photographs showing Cruden Bay at its best were displayed. I have taken part in North East Open Studio’s three times and found this very rewarding. 2007 – Past Lives Is a BBC Radio Scotland magazine programme hosted by Mark Stephen, who on visiting Cruden Bay to discover more about the links between Bram Stoker and… Over the years I have filmed quite a number of weddings, a skilled job on its own! From The Amalfi Coast in Italy to a Viking Wedding on Rattray Beach,… I then went on to help youngsters with their creative skills and led a project with pupils of Peterhead Academy to produce their own film of Peterhead, called “My Town”…. I worked with a film crew(on my theory) to help establish why Bram Stoker author of the world famous Novel Dracula found fascination with Cruden Bay’s Coastline. various projects were under taken by the publicity group. One such being the dispersing of the community associations leaflets produced of Cruden Bay. I ventured up the North East Coast… I held the position of chairperson for The Buchan Tourist Group, to help promote the assets of the area for both locals and tourists alike. I produced a film of Cruden Bay at the turn of the Century, it sold 700 copies and was widely acclaimed! If you haven’t seen this video yet, I have… With an ordinary cam corder (prior to the digital age ) I undertook many video projects, including taking footage of various places I visited in Scotland. I also videoed some… In 1982 I took up a position with The Forestry Commission in Inverness, I have no doubt that it was my time here which fostered in me a love for… In 1980 I started my working career as a Civil Servant with Customs and Excise in Aberdeen, I think it would be fair to say, that like our National Bard,…
2022 – The Challenges of promoting Doric
2022 – Doric Film Festival
2021 – Doric Film Festival
2021 – The World is tuning in to Doric TV
2021 – Doric TV – proving ordinary people can have their own TV station
2020 BWS (Business Women Scotland) Awards finalist
2020 (August) Press and Journal
2020 (August) Launch of Doric TV
2020 North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric
2020 New frae oor wee bit but an’ ben and a tribute to Jimmy and the fairmin’ community
2020 Buchan Observer Lockdown article
2020 Press and Journal Lockdown article
2020 Scotlands Sounds
2020 (June) STV News
2020 Oor wee bit But an’ Ben
2020 Care home concert parties
2019 Launched Doric Future
2019 Launched my own You Tube
2015 Port Erroll Heritage Group
2013 Peterhead Scottish Week
2013 Ellon Editor’s
2012 Inspire at Cafe Coast
2012 Cruden Bay Folk Club
2012 Turning Point
2012 Buchan Observer
2012 Life Through A Lens
2011 NEOS
2010 Gallery at The Garage
2010 North East Open Studio
2007 Radio Scotland Past Lives
2007 wedding photography
2007 Peterhead Academy “My Town”.
2006 working with a film crew
2002 Cruden Bay publicity group
2000 The Buchan Tourist Group
2000 Cruden Bay 2000
1997 testing out my creative abilities
1982 Forestry Commission
1980 I started my working career
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