new filmsnew talent 2006 - Scottish Screen

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new filmsnew talent 

best of scottish shorts 

2006 

2006 has produced a bumper crop of 

films from a diverse and inspired batch of 

filmmakers. Once again, Scottish filmmakers 

have demonstrated their considerable talents 

through a variety of subjects and styles, their 

unique, inspiring, moving and entertaining 

stories. 

Scottish Screen exists to support the screen 

industries in Scotland. We aim to inspire 

audiences, support new and existing talent 

and businesses, educate young people, and 

promote Scotland as a creative place to 

make great films, award-winning television 

and world renowned digital entertainment. 

In this brochure you will find brief details about 

all the films that completed in 2006, which 

have received Scottish Screen investment, 

as well as some independent projects that 

received BAFTA Scotland awards in 2006. 

We are pleased to help promote these 

filmmakers’ work and talents through this 

brochure and its accompanying DVD. The 

filmmakers and rights holders are responsible 

for any distribution, so if you are interested in 

previewing or screening any of the work listed 

here, please contact the filmmakers directly. 

If you are interested in receiving the 2006 

DVD, or have any other questions about 

the films and filmmakers please contact 

shortfilm@scottishscreen.com. 

Front cover still from Trout. Produced by Sigma Films. 

Photo by Alan Peebles 

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As Far As We've Come 

Born to Run 

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Contorted Hazel 

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Cineworks 2006 

Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds 

Director & Writer: Vincent Hunter 

Producer: Karen Smyth 

Genre: Fiction Drama 

Format: Digibeta, Beta SP 

Contact: karen@labelleallee.com 

Independent National Lottery 2006 


Director & Writer: Scott Graham 

Producer: Alice Stilgoe 


Format: HD Cam, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 

Contact: mail4swg@yahoo.co.uk 


Duration: 24 minutes 

Director: John Gorman 

Writer & Producer: Marc de Launay 

Genre: Fiction Supernatural 

Format: HD Cam, Digibeta, Beta SP 

Contact: marc@mandragora.net 

When two friends stumble across a dying man, the 

discovery has unexpected consequences for one of 

them in this powerful tale of the nature of chance. 

Would you regret falling in love if it meant never leaving your 

hometown? Set against the decline of the fishing industry, 

a 17-year-old boy racer and his girlfriend are desperate to 

be alone together while the boy’s parents reflect separately 

on the choices they made 18 years before. 

Marion and her 10-year-old son, Stuart, look after an 

old National Trust property while it is closed over winter. 

Stuart draws his nightmares on scraps of paper that he 

then collects in jars; a jar is broken and the nightmare 

escapes and stalks both mother and son.

Cornershop 

Digicult 2006 


Director & Writer: Zak Hanif 

Producer: Yvonne Bray 

Genre: Fiction Mockumentary 


Contact: vonniebray@hotmail.com 

A film crew spend a day documenting an episode in the 

life of an ageing Asian shopkeeper. As the day unfolds, 

something is revealed, which may hold the key as to 

why the corner shop is fast approaching its imminent 

demise. 

Edie's POV 



Director: Rosie Toner 

Writer: Joseph Mills 

Producer: Douglas Dougan 

Genre: Fiction 

Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 

Contact: doug@fluideyeproductions.co.uk 

A troubled transsexual becomes obsessed with her 

video camera, recording abuse against her, but it soon 

becomes a drug that only helps her avoid reality 

Icicle Melt 



Director & Writer: Amy Neil 

Producer: Andrew Bonner 

Genre: Fiction Romance 


Contact: amykneil@gmail.com 

Like young lovers, a couple dance in the snow. When 

death strikes, Madeleine freezes over. Eventually her 

heart melts; at Bernard’s side she says goodbye. 

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Coulrophobia 

Little Pictures 2006 


Director & Writer: Scott Mowbray 

Producer: David W Allan 

Genre: Fiction Comedy 


Contact: gmacshorts@g-mac.co.uk 

A paranoid delusional man, with an extreme fear of 

clowns enlists the help of an incompetent psychologist. 

The outcome never looks promising. 

The Harvest 

Tartan Short 2006 


Director: Joseph Briffa 

Writer: Paul Welsh 

Producer: Suzanne Reid 

Genre: Science Fiction 

Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 

Contact: joseph@55degrees.co.uk 

The future. When the crew of a tiny deep space research 

vessel are unexpectedly exposed to an alien energy, 

repressed behaviours come to the fore. 

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Kissing, Tickling & Being Bored 



Director & Writer: Jim McRoberts 

Producer: David Smith 



Contact: david@brocken-spectre.com 

Maddy is 15, and everything in her life feels totally dead. 

She wants to feel something, anything, just as long as 

it’s real. 

Drowning 

Independent 2006 


Director, Writer and Producer: Yulia Mahr 

Co-producer: Max Richter 



Contact: y.mahr@btopenworld.com 

A mother with two young children struggles with a 

diagnosis of terminal cancer. A poignant and stunning 

debut. Winner of BAFTA Scotland Best New Director. 

Hikikomori 


Duration: 12 minutes and 30 seconds 

Director & Writer: Paul Wright 

Producer: Karley Duffy 



Contact: amcilwaine@rsamd.ac.uk 

After a traumatic past Joe has made himself a prisoner 

in his own bedroom. Will his relationship with the 

mysterious Little Ottik be enough to release him? 

Winner of BAFTA Scotland Best New Work. 

Laid Off 



Director, Writer & Producer: Zam Salim 



Contact: zam@zoom.co.uk 

If you thought life was bollocks, wait till you get a load 

of death. We follow the recently deceased Martin (1966- 

2003) as he comes to this conclusion. Nominated for 

BAFTA Scotland Best Short Film.

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Ma Boy 



Director & Writer: Amy Neil 

Producer: Pamela Nelson 




Oh Lucky Man 



Director & Writer: Benjamin Kracun 

Producer: Robert McKillop 




Snakebite 

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Director & Writer: Matt Pinder 

Producer: Stuart Dobbs 



Contact: stuart@outandoutfilms.co.uk 

Life is difficult enough for 15-year-old Isla, living in 

cramped conditions with her mother, boyfriend and 

baby boy. Tensions start to rise when Mum Ali starts 

flirting with boyfriend Gav. 

In a large country manor house, George indulges in the 

act of decadence. He seems content, yet do we really 

know who George is? Why is this man so lucky? 

7-year-old Sammy Gillanders mistakenly thinks he’s 

been bitten by a poisonous snake. For the rest of the 

afternoon he considers his slow and painful demise. 

Me & Her 

Digiplus 2006 


Director & Writer: Sarah Tripp 

Producer: Beth Allan 



Contact: info@sarahtripp.com 

Run, Tony Run! 



Director & Writer: Simon Grohe 

Producers: Anna Purkis, Simon Grohe 

Genre: Romantic Action Comedy 


Contact: anna_purkis@yahoo.co.uk 

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Teenage Warhol 



Director & Writer: Rosie Toner 

Producer: Marc de Launay 



Contact: rosie.toner@yahoo.co.uk 

Coleen and Damien have spent a summer working 

together as chambermaids. As the summer comes to 

an end, after fumbling through hangovers and personal 

insecurities, they confront their unexpected attraction to 

each other. 

Sometimes it is wise to slow down to find out what really 

matters in life. But Tony has no time to lose and runs 

through everything the elements can throw at him. And 

he is not alone. Winner of BAFTA Scotland Best New 

Screenplay. 

Isabel dreams of getting into art college. Working late 

one night in her dead end supermarket job, the ghost of 

Andy Warhol materializes in front of her and issues her 

with a challenge to make great art in the supermarket 

that night or be trapped there for all eternity. 

Mono 



Director & Writer: Richard Smith 

Producer: Abigail Howkins 

Genre: Fiction Romance 


Contact: abigail@autonomi.tv 

When Emily’s quiet life is disrupted by a noisy musician 

moving in next door, the outcome is far from muted. 

After a terrible aural misunderstanding, the silence is 

deafening, and it’s up to Emily to break the divide. 

Scene. 


Duration: 15 mins and 30 secs 

Directors: Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm 

Writer: Bryan Larkin 

Producer: Marc Twynholm, Bryan Larkin 


Format: Beta SP, Mini DV 

Contact: bryan@dabhandfilms.com 

Actor Gary has just landed his big break in a gangster 

movie but the director's unconventional methods might 

just end his career before it begins. Winner of BAFTA 

Scotland Best First Time Performance. 

Toll 



Director & Writer: Matt Lloyd 

Producer: Gemma Mitchell 



Contact: matty.lloyd@blueyonder.co.uk 

Working the lonely nightshift, a tollbooth operator is 

haunted by a memory that won't lie still. Dawn brings a 

terrible realisation.

TrackS 

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Famine 



Director & Writer: Martin Smith 

Producer: Karen Smyth 




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Oompie Ka Doompie 



Director & Writer: Hugo Cuellar 

Producer: Madévi Dailly 

Genre: Animation 

Format: Beta SP, DVD 

Contact: gaia@redkite-animation.com 



Director & Writer: Mandy McIntosh 

Producer: Ham and Enos 

Genre: Animation Documentary 

Format: HD Cam, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 

Contact: mandy@hamandenos.com 

In a life where violence begets violence, 13-year-old Nico 

reacts to a beating from his brother by stealing his cat. He 

then engages in an act of wanton brutality with devastating 

consequences, in this powerful and affecting film. Winner 

of BAFTA Scotland Best Short Film. 

A small fly is blamed for vicious cannibal attacks in 

Insect City. Can he entangle the web of deceit that has 

fallen over the city? 

The hybrid animated journey of a Scottish family 

leaving a grim 70’s Glasgow to experience new life in 

Johannesburg during apartheid, and coming home 

again with new notions of Africa. 

TroUT 



Director & Writer: Johnny Barrington 

Producer: Anna Duffield 


Format: 35 mm, Digibeta, Beta SP 

Contact: anna@sigmafilms.com 

Alex is a dreamer, Mari is a realist; two highland lovers 

living in a caravan in the west of Scotland. Trout is a 

kooky tale of what happens when a bizarre chain of 

events shakes up their quiet life. 

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Farpais nan Sgeul Fuadain 

(The Tallest Story Competition) 



Series Director & Producer: Leslie MacKenzie 

Writer: Peter Hynes 

Genre: Animation Folktale 

Language: Gaelic, English subtitles 


Contact: lesmac@westhighlandanimation.co.uk 

Gaelic mimic and comedian Norman MacLean introduces 

five tall tales from the remote heartlands of tribal India, 

each with it’s own vivid and evocative artwork style. 

Paper cUTS 



Director & Writer: Ben Soper 

Producer: Katie Crook 

Genre: Animation Drama 



Obsessed with a paper effigy of his loving wife an 

introverted stationer lives in a fantasy world of staples 

and photocopies. But when the doll leaves him torn and 

bleeding and his real wife starts asking awkward questions 

he must make a choice between flesh and paper. 

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Crow Moon 



Director & Writer: Selina Cobley 

Producer: Sueann Smith 


Format: Beta SP, DVD 

Contact: sueann_sm@yahoo.co.uk 

A flock of roosting crows, black as night themselves, are 

threatened by the advancing shadows at dusk. They 

need light for protection so with the help of the Raven 

Chief they take a piece of the sun and use it to save 

themselves from the darkness. 

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Fetch 


Duration: 1 min and 15 secs 

Director & Writer: Dana Dorian 

Producer: Sam McCarthy 

Genre: Animation Comedy 

Language: Welsh, English Subtitles 

Format: Digibeta and Beta SP 

Contact: dana.dorian@axisanimation.com 

Colin takes his dog Cumberland to the park for a game 

of fetch, but Cumberland has other ideas. Winner of 

BAFTA Scotland Best Animation. 

Ujbaz Izbeneki Has Lost His Soul 



Director & Writer: Neil Jack 

Producer & Writer: Cameron Fraser 



Contact: info@kolik.co.uk 

When Ujbaz Izbeneki descends into Hell, nobody is 

prepared for the chaos that follows in the wake of the 

man who has lost everything…and anything! 

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documentary 

The Big Lie 

Bridging the Gap 2006 


Director & Producer: Peter Everett 

Genre: Documentary 

Format: Digibeta, DV Cam 

Contact: scottishdocumentaryinstitute@eca.ac.uk 

Between 1936 and 1939 several hundred Scottish men 

and women went to fight as volunteers on the side of 

the Spanish Republic against the fascist regimes then 

spreading throughout Europe. The Big Lie recounts 

the experiences of one of the last surviving Scottish 

volunteers. 

Maggie's Centres 



Director & Writer: Murray Grigor 

Producer: Phoebe Grigor 


Format: Digibeta. Beta SP 

Contact: shortfilm@scottishscreen.com 

Innovative cancer care centres in Scotland are being 

built by some of the world’s most celebrated architects 

which are at once challenging, spiritual and homely, 

inspired by Maggie Keswick Jencks. 

Save our Pool 



Director & Writer: Stephen Anderson 

Producer: Douglas Neilson 


Format: Digibeta, DVD 

Contact: douglas@kelpiefilms.com 

One local community in Glasgow go to extraordinary 

lengths to save their local pool when they began what 

was to become the longest occupation of a public 

building in British history. 

Black Sheep 

Mentiras 

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The Truth about Tooth 



Director & Writer: Paul Hamilton 

Producer: Ciara Barry 




Edinburgh based filmmaker Paul Hamilton wonders what 

it is to be a black sheep and takes the audience on an 

emotional journey through the filmmaker's youth and the 

rocky relationship with his family using archive footage 

and insightful interviews. 



Director & Producer: Nick Higgins 


Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DV Cam, Mini-DV, DVD 


Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling 

journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one 

man's confession to human rights crimes committed with 

the backing of the Mexican government it is the story of 

a troubled conscience and the rupturing of official lies. 



Director: Hazel Baillie 

Producer: Noe Mendelle 


Format: Digibeta, DV Cam 


A true insight into the meticulous work of the Tooth Fairy. 

From the active imaginations of young children to the 

mundane, grimy reality of the Tooth Fairy Factory, this 

documentary explores the growing need for myths and lies. 

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Last in the Line 



Directors, Writers & Producers: Blair Scott, Dylan 

Drummond 


Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DV Cam, Mini DV 


A moving portrait of ballad singer Sheila Stewart, the last 

in the line of a long lineage of travellers and storytellers. 

Her final quest is to ensure that her culture does not 

die with her. 

Rückenlage (Upside Down) 



Director: Astrid Bussink 

Producer: Sonja Henrici 


Format: HD-DV, Digibeta, Beta SP, DV Cam 


Rückenlage is a visual journey through Scotland’s skies 

and the mind of Rudolf Hess, who flew to Scotland in 

1941 to ‘negotiate peace’ with Britain. 

Asunder 002-007 A Chronicle Of 

Time & People Past 

Artists' Film and Video 2006 


Director: Ann Vance 

Producer: Paula Larkin 

Genre: Experimental Documentary 

Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, Mini DV, DVD 

Contact: vanna@talktalk.net 

A personal document of time past and present recording 

the 'inter-akshuns' of real people and places, the Isle 

of Skye and the city of Glasgow, that exude particular 

auras and resonances.

Harmonium (Terry & Kurt) 



Director & Producer: Stuart Gurden 

Genre: Experimental 

Format: DVD 

Contact: stuartgurden@hotmail.com 

Harmonium sets-up a collision between two icons of early 

1960’s idealism, novelist Kurt Vonnegut and minimalist 

composer Terry Riley. The ‘performance' re-stages an 

early tape looping experiment by Riley, which is fed a small 

fragment read from Vonnegut’s novel ‘Sirens of Titan’. 

White Noise 



Director & Producer: Stuart Gurden 

Genre: Experimental Documentary 

Format: DVD 

Contact: stuartgurden@hotmail.com 

White Noise is a re-staging of a written interview with 

the minimalist composer Terry Riley. Presented as 

black & white negative, the improvised acting and 

the focus on technical detail foreground the awkward 

contingencies of formal experimentation. 

extra short mobile content 

Eat Me 

Pocket Shorts 2006 

Duration: 3 x 20 seconds 

Director: Ellen Deakin 


Format: Quicktime movie 

Contact: mira96@dial.pipex.com 

Nothing is quite what it seems in this series of punchy 

visual gags to leave you amused and repulsed in equal 

measures. 

Harrachov 



Directors & Writers: Matt Hulse, Joost van Veen 

Producer: Esther Urlus 

Genre: Experimental Animation 

Format: 35mm, Beta SP 

Contact: konrad@harrachov-exchange.info 

Piece by piece, a menacing machine-system is 

constructed. Combining live action, stop-frame animation 

and a kinetic sculpture, Harrachov explores the effect 

of an arcane force that, like a black hole, exerts an 

irresistible power upon certain objects and materials. 

Animame 


Director: Dave Sapien 

Genre: Game Animation 

Format: Java 

Contact: info@davesapien.com 

A creative toy for your phone. Split into four unique and 

separate games, fiddle, doodle, and have fun using your 

phones camera and microphone. Blow on your phone, 

touch your phone, capture your environment.. 

Mating Calls 



Director: Simon Biggs 

Producer: Douglas Neilson 


Format: Mpeg4, 3gp 

Contact: douglas@kelpiefilms.com 

Imagine if you were able to watch a mouse and a snake 

go out on a date? What would they talk about, what 

would they do? In Mating Calls you get to watch our 

animals on their dating adventures. 

Laddy and the Lady 



Director & Writer: Henry Coombes 

Producers: David Smith, Ciara Barry 

Genre: Experimental Fiction 

Format: HD Cam, Digibeta, Beta SP 

Contact: info@sorchadallas.com 

Laddy and the Lady follows an out-of-control golden 

retriever, owned by a lady, on a pheasant shoot. Scenes of 

the shoot are intercut with flashbacks to Laddy's troubled 

past as a puppy, wrenched from his mother's side. 

Co-Workers 



Director: Chris Ellingford 


Format: AVI movie 

Contact: cellingford99@hotmail.com 

Co-workers examines the disastrous relationship 

between two conflicting characters, Bob and Mike, 

within their small confined working environment. What 

follows is a mis-matched pair engaging in wacky cartoon 

carnage and office pranks. 

Mistxt 



Director: Madevi Dailly 



Contact: madevi@mistxt.com 

Mistxt follows the adventures of the hapless but loveable 

Bumps who suffer the consequences of mobile texting 

errors. In each short clip, a friendly Bump seemingly 

engaged in a perfectly normal occupation gets derailed 

by its predictive text equivalent. www.mistxt.com

The Law 



Director: Tim Brinkhurst 

Genre: Live Action 


Contact: two7sclash@blueyonder.co.uk 

Send someone a good telling off. Lay down the law on 

your mobile phone! Two from The Law, a selection of 

15 second clips featuring authority figures admonishing 

the receiver. 

thanks to BAFTA Scotland 

Scottish Screen invests more than £6m in the development and promotion of 

Scotland's screen industries each year. This includes distributing £3m of National 

Lottery funds. 

For full details of Scottish Screen investment opportunities, our guidelines and 

application form please consult our website (www.scottishscreen.com/funding). 

For general enquiries about short film funding in Scotland you can contact: 

SCOTTISH SCREEN 

249 West George Street 

Glasgow G2 4QE 

t: +44 (0)141 302 1700 

e: investment@scottishscreen.com 

w: www.scottishscreen.com 

Positiv-O 



Director: Tim Brinkhurst 

Genre: Live Action 


Contact: two7sclash@blueyonder.co.uk 

Hugs and support from your mobile phone. Loving 

awareness across the airwaves. Two from Positiv-O, a 

selection of 15 second motivational clips for all kinds of 

stressful situations. 

The films in this catalogue have been made through the following film schemes and initiatives: 

Independent NATIONAL 

Lottery Investment 

Funded by: 

Scottish Screen National Lottery 

Tartan Shorts 

Funded by: 


BBC Scotland 

GMAC Short Film 

Schemes 

Little Pictures, Cineworks, 

Digicult and Digiplus 

Funded by: 


UK Film Council National Lottery 

GMAC 

TinHedz 


Duration: 2 x 1 minute 

Director: Grahame Smith 


Format: Mpeg4 

Contact: grahame@alchemedia-interactive.com 

Interactive space-based animated series using a unique 

technique of delivering 3D style animation but with very 

small file sizes. 

Bridging the Gap 

Funded by: 


Angus Digital Media Centre 

Edinburgh College of Art 

Docspace 

Scottish Documentary Institute 

Artists’ Film and Video 

Funded by: 


Scottish Arts Council National Lottery 

Pocket Shorts 

Funded by: 

Scottish Screen 

Nesta 

Scottish Enterprise 

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Above still from MONO. Produced by Abigail Howkins. Photo by Jamie Simpson

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