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Simon Chinn | Part 4

Year of Production: 2010
Chinn talks about interviews and relationships within ‘Man on Wire’.
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Andrey Paounov | Part 4

Year of Production: 2008
Part 4 outlines the difficulties involved when coming up against government authorities.
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Andrey Paounov | Part 5

Year of Production: 2008
Paounov talks about the ‘inartistic’ yet often necessary skill of interviewing his characters.
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Andrey Paounov | Part 7

Year of Production: 2008
Paounov reveals how humour can benefit a documentary script.
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Andrey Paounov | Part 10

Year of Production: 2008
Part 10 enquires into moral issues involved in documentary. Paounov addresses the responsibility and honesty required to tell human truths.
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Paul Watson | Part 2

Year of Production: 2008
Watson discusses casting and how he built up trust early on with Alzheimers sufferers Malcolm and Barbara, his two main characters the eponymous film.
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Paul Watson | Part 3

Year of Production: 2008
Watson talks about research and getting access during production of ‘The Home’.
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Paul Watson | Part 9

Year of Production: 2008
In part 9 we gain an insight into representation, and listen to Watson’s practice on the rights and the responsibilities that come with filming real people.
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Vincent Moloi | Part 1

Year of Production: 2007
In part 1 Vincent Moloi talks about analysing the story and communicating with his characters.
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Scottish Documentary Blog

Documentary ONLY: Hot Docs and their new cinema
Hot Docs has an amazing and magical pull as a documentary festival that brings together filmmakers from all around the world – but more importantly, year after year, Hot Docs develops new ways of increasing their local audience. This year, they offered free screenings to students and anyone above 60, creating the most challenging, yet welcoming audience one […]
Bridging the Gap – in progress: Polaris
Reports from the production of this year's Bridging the Gap short documentaries, part 4 For a long time, skippers in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels. That was the reality until Filipino fishermen started coming to town. Now they crew most of the boats, but they have to deal with the vast sea and the enor […]
Bridging the Gap – in progress: In Search of the Wallaby
Reports from the production of this year's Bridging the Gap short documentaries, part 3 The Isle of Islay, Scotland. Human population: 3,457. Sheep population: 20,000 (or thereabouts). Wallaby population: 1 (deceased)? We have come to Islay with one intention – to solve the mystery of the wallaby. A wallaby is a small kangaroo more often associated with […]
Poets of Protest: "You need to get out fast and now!"
There is something very enticing about filming poets. Here are these characters, reflective and questioning by nature, living through a truly historic time of change in the Middle East. The idea for the documentary series Poets of Protest came after I had been commissioned by Reel Festivals to make three short films during their poetry festival in Beirut in […]