A selection of the best of ECA students’ films we have chosen to promote through SDI festival distribution and our website.
Caring for Calum
Winner, Grierson Best Student Documentary Award, 2011
Uisdean (58) returns to his home on the edge of a Highland loch, after years in exile, to face a complex past that threatens his ambition to look after his father.
Kirkcaldy Man
Winner of DokLeipzig Golden Dove Award 2011. A film in search of Jocky Wilson, Scotland’s darts world champion in the 80′s results in a moving portrait of Kirkcaldy, a faded mining town in Scotland, and its former hero.
Humanoids
NAO is a loveable little robot, who can recognise your face, answer your questions and satisfy your desire for a good kick around.
Caretaker for The Lord
A film about the battle between the space and souls of a local church congregation in Glasgow.
The Great Flood
The Kawesqar people of Patagonia believed their world was created after a catastrophic great flood.
Carlssons
Retired Swedish couple Lena and Gunvall Carlsson spend their days doing nothing out of the ordinary…
Tehran Backyard
Pari is 65 and commutes every day into Tehran to support her blind husband and 5 children.
How Many Sleeps to the Moon?
A magical journey into childhood where fun, dreams, fantasy and the imagination know no limits.
Look at Lucia (Se På Lucia)
Se På Lucia follows young female contestants in the final voting stages of Lucia.
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- 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 […]
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