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SCOTTISH SCREEN FEATURE FILMS CHAMPIONING INVESTMENT IN SCREEN PRODUCTION<br />
<strong>Scottish</strong> Screen is Scotland’s national film office, supporting<br />
all aspects of the <strong>screen</strong> industry and <strong>screen</strong> culture in<br />
Scotland. Our Production & Development department<br />
provides funding to home-grown filmmaking talent and<br />
introduces their work to audiences around the world.<br />
Scotland has been producing first-class <strong>feature</strong> <strong>films</strong> for<br />
many decades, and there has been a huge increase in<br />
activity in the last few years. Some highlights of the recent<br />
past are included in this brochure, and many of these<br />
filmmakers are graduates of our short film programmes.<br />
Feature production has a key role in <strong>Scottish</strong> film business<br />
and talent development. Central to this are the various<br />
schemes we operate with partners including <strong>Scottish</strong><br />
Enterprise, BBC Scotland, <strong>Scottish</strong> TV and Grampian TV.<br />
During 2003, we ran a low-budget <strong>feature</strong> film scheme,<br />
New Found Films, in partnership with <strong>Scottish</strong> TV and<br />
Grampian TV. This produced two ninety-minute <strong>films</strong>,<br />
(Blinded and Afterlife), with an approximate budget of<br />
£300k each, and was extremely successful in giving new<br />
filmmakers the opportunity to make that all-important first<br />
<strong>feature</strong>. At the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, we launched a new<br />
low budget film scheme in association with the BBC Scotland<br />
& BBC Films. This scheme will produce three £1.2m <strong>films</strong><br />
over 3 years.<br />
<strong>Scottish</strong> Screen also actively encourages international<br />
collaborations to the benefit of the <strong>Scottish</strong> industry, and<br />
many of the titles in this brochure are international coproductions.<br />
For more information on <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>feature</strong> film production,<br />
visit our web site at www.scottish<strong>screen</strong>.com/production<br />
AE FOND KISS<br />
2004, UK, 104 minutes<br />
AFTERLIFE<br />
2003, UK, 104 minutes<br />
AMERICAN COUSINS<br />
2002, UK, 93 minutes<br />
BLINDED<br />
2004, UK, 90 minutes<br />
Production Company: Sixteen Films Ltd<br />
UK Distribution: Icon Film Distribution<br />
Sales Agent: The Works<br />
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien<br />
Director: Ken Loach<br />
Writer: Paul Laverty<br />
Cast: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle<br />
Accountancy graduate turned DJ, Casim<br />
meets trainee teacher Roisin O’Connor.<br />
Sparks fly and families, cultures and<br />
personalities collide.<br />
Berlin International Film Festival 2004<br />
In Competition<br />
Production Company: Gabriel Films<br />
UK Distribution: SODA Pictures<br />
Sales Agent: Granada International<br />
Producer: Catherine Aitken<br />
Associate Producer: Ros Borland<br />
Director: Alison Peebles<br />
Writer: Andrea Gibb<br />
Cast: Lindsay Duncan, Kevin McKidd, Paula<br />
Sage, Shirley Henderson<br />
Kenny Brogan, an ambitious journalist, is<br />
working on a story about a doctor<br />
suspected of assisting terminally ill patients<br />
with suicide. He is on the verge of a big<br />
break, so it is not the best timing when his<br />
mother is laid low with a twisted ankle and<br />
he is summoned back home so that he can<br />
help look after his sister Roberta who has<br />
Downs Syndrome. On arriving home, Kenny<br />
realises that his mother is dying of cancer<br />
and he must now make a decision about his<br />
own life and that of the care of Roberta.<br />
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003<br />
Standard Life Audience Award<br />
London Film Festival 2003<br />
New British Cinema Selection<br />
Production Company: Bard Entertainments<br />
UK Distribution: Icon Film Distribution<br />
Sales Agent: Bard Entertainments<br />
Producer: Margaret Matheson<br />
Director: Don Coutts<br />
Writer: Sergio Casci<br />
Cast: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson,<br />
Gerald Lepkowski, Vincent Pastore,<br />
Dan Hedaya, Russell Hunter<br />
A comedy about an Italian family running a<br />
café in Glasgow whose lives are<br />
turned upside down by the arrival of their<br />
American cousins, who are on the<br />
run from Ukranian hit men.<br />
Milan International Film Festival 2003<br />
Best Film<br />
Bowmore <strong>Scottish</strong> Screen Awards 2004<br />
Best Film<br />
Newport Beach Film Festival 2004<br />
Best Feature Film<br />
Savannah Film Festival 2003<br />
Best Film (Jury Award)<br />
BAFTA Nominee 2004 Carl Foreman Award<br />
(Best Screenplay) - Sergio Casci<br />
Production Company: Oscar Films<br />
UK Distributor: TBA<br />
Sales Agent: TBA<br />
Producer: Oscar van Heek<br />
Director: Eleanor Yule<br />
Writer: Eleanor Yule<br />
Cast: Anders W Berthelsen, Jodhi May, Peter<br />
Mullan, Samantha Bond, Phyllida Law<br />
Blinded tells a story of obsession and<br />
murder, loosely based on Emile Zola’s<br />
Thérèse Raquin, and retold in a modern day<br />
setting.<br />
Blinded is a brooding psychological thriller,<br />
starring Peter Mullan (best actor Cannes for<br />
My Name Is Joe); Jodhi May (best actress<br />
Cannes for A World Apart) and Anders W<br />
Berthelson (best actor European Film Award<br />
for Mifune).<br />
With vintage performances from the awardwinning<br />
cast, Blinded explores the darker<br />
side of sexual desire, proving how hard it is<br />
to see the truth - even when the facts are<br />
right in front of your eyes.
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