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Bridging the Gap 10: Short-listed filmmakers
Congratulations to the 11 filmmakers who have been short-listed to develop their projects through Bridging the Gap! They have now two months and two intense training workshops ahead of them to get their project ready for the commissioning pitch in early February 2013.
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 – 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.
Pablo’s Winter
‘Pablo’s Winter’ captures the comical essence of everyday life in a small town that strives to survive after the closure of the most productive mercury mines in history.
Polaris
Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels. That was until Filipino fishermen started coming to town for work.
Pouters
A modern day story of undying commitment, rivalry, family and friendship interwoven by an underground and idiosyncratic Scottish sport.
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- 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, […]