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Caring for Calum

Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 24'
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.
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Kirkcaldy Man wins DokLeipzig Golden Dove

Posted on 10.24.11
Kirkcaldy Man, a film about former Darts champion Jocky Wilson wins Golden Dove award at DokLeipzig. Screen Academy Scotland/ECA graduate Julian Schwanitz takes home €5000 prize money; Bafta-winning Caring for Calum is nominated for Grierson Award.
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Kirkcaldy Man

Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 17'
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.
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Scottish Stories: Documentary Films from ECA

Date: 06/21/2011 Time: 13:10
An industry screening by Screen Academy Scotland’s MA/MFA graduates during EIFF 2011
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Humanoids

Director: Mariana Oliva
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 12'
NAO is a loveable little robot, who can recognise your face, answer your questions and satisfy your desire for a good kick around.
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15 And A Half

Director: Tali Yankelevich
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 13'40''
A film about friendship and two girls who want to be older but don’t want to grow up.
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Caretaker for The Lord

Director: Jane McAllister
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 16'45''
A film about the battle between the space and souls of a local church congregation in Glasgow.
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Call for Papers on Animating Realities

Posted on 02.11.11
Conference on Animating Realities: Animation, Documentary and the Moving Image Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the use of animation aesthetics and production techniques to explore subject matter traditionally deemed to be the preserve of live-action documentary cinema. The developing and changing nature of documentation moves away from established …
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Three Edinburgh Filmmakers Selected for Berlinale Talent Campus

Posted on 02.3.11
Three award-winning female documentary filmmakers nurtured through Scottish Documentary Institute have been selected to attend the 9th Berlinale Talent Campus out of over 4000 applicants
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‘Maria’s Way’ by Anne Milne wins BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award

Posted on 03.22.10
Edinburgh College of Art student Anne Milne won the BAFTA (Scotland) New Talent award for her beautiful film ‘Maria’s Way’ on Friday.
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Scottish Documentary Institute at SEE Film Festival Brighton

Posted on 01.28.10
We are delighted to have our very own screening at this year’s SEE Film Festival in Brighton.
A mixture of films from the last two years of Bridging the Gap, the short doc scheme and one film from Edinburgh College of Art where the Scottish Documentary Institute is based at the 9am slot on Sunday 21st February 2010.
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The Great Flood

Director: Marcelo de Oliveira
Year of Production: 2009
Duration: 6'
The Kawesqar people of Patagonia believed their world was created after a catastrophic great flood.
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Surviving in an attention-poor world
In 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 on
Yasmin 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 Barnett
Sabine 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 Bainbridge
Su 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, […]

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