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Caitlin Dickson

Journalist

Jun 29, 2026

3:24
For these reasons and more, Local Hero has become one of Scotland's most deeply treasured cultural films, giving the nation a distinct, poetic voice on the global stage, countering lazy Hollywood stereotypes and capturing the hearts and imaginations of people all over the world.
3:44
We all are guided by art.
3:47
You, you imagine ways to be through books and through films, and I, I can't say that my decision to, to uproot my life and move it wasn't affected by that 15-year-old girl watching Local Hero and knowing what Mac needed to do in his life and hoping that he could find the strength to do it.
4:14
[gentle music] My name is Caitlin Dickson.
4:19
I am a writer and film editor, and I live in northern Portugal.
4:27
My husband and I have had a joke almost throughout our entire marriage that we were living to retire, and we don't mean retire like stop everything.
4:40
What we meant was we felt we both worked very hard, have worked very hard for many years, and really loved our jobs, love our jobs, but felt that there was part of us that was not...

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