SDI films produced in 2012
Benghazi Stories – The Salesman
A quirky, enigmatic car salesman is happy to fob off his desperate clients with old cars as long as the wheels and the body look new. Could that be a metaphor for the Libyan government when you live in Benghazi? This short documentary was made during a SDI documentary workshop …
Benghazi Stories – The Driving Lesson
Driving schools in Benghazi have a huge waiting list so a desperate young female doctor agrees to be taught by her brother. Collisions don’t just happen outside! This short documentary was made during a SDI documentary workshop in Libya, organised by the British Council. Director: Omar Bushiha Camera: Ahmad Alshereef Sound: Mohamed Elghazal …
Benghazi Stories – Poet of the Sea
A Benghazi fisherman has spent a lifetime fishing at sea but once in a while the verses he catches are bigger than his fish. The distance away from the coast gives him time and clarity to reflect and denounce what is happening in Libya. This short documentary was made during …
I Am Breathing
Within one year, Neil Platt becomes paralysed from the neck down. As his body fails, he tries to make sense of his life in order to communicate who he is in a letter to his one year old son.
Poets of Protest – Writing a Revolution
Ahmed Fuad Negm is one of Egypt’s most revered and political poets, a folk hero whose work was read out at Tahrir square during the revolution.
Poets of Protest – Waiting for Spring
For renowned poet, and outspoken filmmaker, Hala Mohammad, the personal impact of the Syrian uprising has been sudden exile to Paris.
Poets of Protest – Laughter Is My Exit
Yehia has two definitive styles of poetry, his “stand up poetry show” performed in cafes and bars which is funny and brash, and his darker, emotional material relating to his life as a communist solider and death of his mother.
Poets of Protest – Fire Won’t Eat Me Up
Acclaimed and fiery Iraqi poet Manal Al-Sheikh has to write a new poem in time for a reading in her adopted town of Stavanger, Norway.
Poets of Protest – Hand Made
Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian refugee we follow as he leaves his poetry on the fabric of his Lebanese refugee camp; on the doors of the flat he was forced to leave; the walls, pavements and cigarette packets of his everyday life.
Poets of Protest – Poet of the Desert
Al Khadra is a renowned Saharawi war poetess, living in the Al Auin wind swept refugee camp in Algeria. She is a vivid testament to three decades of the Sahara conflict.
Sweetie and Sunshine
Two Chinese Pandas gifted to Edinburgh Zoo take up residence. Will Sweetie win Sunshine’s heart?
Promenade
An atmospheric journey through Edinburgh. A man pushes a trolly. Real life collides with the unreal.
2012
Scottish Documentary Blog
- Surviving in an attention-poor worldIn 2006, novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow described how ‘technology giveth and technology taketh’; that for every hopeful revolution brought by our networked world there’s a downside, and for every peril, there’s potential. A nice illustration of the idea: running a search to find the article where I first read this quote gives me page after page of result […]
- The invasion of Iraq, 10 years onYasmin Fedda is a filmmaker, Bridging The Gap alumna, PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, and organiser of the REEL IRAQ festival beginning on 21 March 2013. On 21 March 2003 a US and UK coalition invaded Iraq, under the premise of freeing it from its then dictator Saddam Hussein. On the same day, I found out I was accepted to do a masters in visual ant […]
- Interdoc Alums (4): Sabine Hellmann & Adam BarnettSabine Hellmann is a German-born filmmaker who lives in Edinburgh. Sabine pitched her first feature documentary The Brink of Extinction at Interdoc 2012 together with Adam Barnett who also is an Edinburgh-based filmmaker and editor. After graduating in Germany with a 40-minute documentary on the use of GMO crops, Sabine moved to Scotland for an internship wi […]
- Interdoc Alums (3): Su BainbridgeSu Bainbridge works with Glasgow-based Aconite Productions, making international documentary films which bring stories of global significance to the world stage. She took part in Interdoc Scotland 2012. Passionate about making films, Su has years of experience spanning documentaries, drama, commercials, music and arts. Su has worked as a Production Manager, […]