SDI Productions Ltd. was set up in 2007 as the production company part of Edinburgh College of Art’s Scottish Documentary Institute. SDI has two Managing Directors, Noe Mendelle and Sonja Henrici, and between them they combine more than 30 years of experience in broadcast production and documentary film backed by Creative Scotland (formerly Scottish Screen), Skillset, BBC, Channel 4 and many international broadcasters: STV, RTP, POV, SBS, VPRO, Arte, RAI, RTBF, CFI, TV5, France 3.
Since 2007 we have produced The New Ten Commandments (directors include Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Douglas Gordon, Irvine Welsh, Kenny Glenaan – in The Guardian’s Top Ten Films of EIFF 2008), the annual award-winning New Talent series Bridging the Gap backed by BBC Scotland, Creative Scotland and Skillset.We also housed and supported the production of Amy Hardie’s acclaimed The Edge of Dreaming.
We’re in international co-productions for two feature documentaries:Future For Sale, on alternative economic ideas (with Maja Borg and Lisbet Gabrielsson AB, the Swedish Film Institute & SVT, in post-production).
Breathing, a documentary about life, death, love and the hope provided by cutting edge genetic science (a co-production with Danish Documentary / Sigrid Dyekjaer, currently in development)
For more information please contact us via info@scottishdocinstitute.com 
