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Pouters

Director: Paul Fegan
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 17'
A modern day story of undying commitment, rivalry, family and friendship interwoven by an underground and idiosyncratic Scottish sport.
2012, Completed, Featured, Films
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Rabat Stories – Bitter Return

Director: Mohamed Benabou
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 4'09''
Hicham is a Moroccan migrant worker in Libya and he tells us about his experience there prior and post Libyan revolution.
2012, Completed, Films
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Rabat Stories – El Mikhali

Director: Azeddine Bouhmidi
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 5'09''
Mohamed travels the streets of Rabat through the night with his cart, collecting any recyclable object.
2012, Completed, Films
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Rabat Stories – Men Choufouch

Director: Fatima Zahra El Fath
Year of Production: 2012
Duration: 3'06''
Sexual harassment for Moroccan women of whatever age is part of their daily experience.
2012, Completed, Films
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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.
eca films, Films
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The Red Army

Director: Paul Ryan
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 9'05''
Two unlikely fans of red squirrels go all the way to decimate the greys.
2011, Completed, Films
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Under the Surface

Director: David R. Cairns
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 9'05''
Last summer in Dundee, eight young men took their own lives. A moving encounter with those left behind.
2011, Completed, Films
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I Can Smell the Cordite

Director: Andy Taylor Smith
Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 9'05''
One bunker. Two men. Christmas Eve, 1944. Or was it 2011?
2011, Completed, Films
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The Get Carter car park prior to its final demolition

Get Luder

Director: Jonathan Carr
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 8'53''
Once prolific, celebrated and respected Brutalist architect Owen Luder now faces up to the demolition of his iconic Get Carter car park, made famous by the Michael Caine gangster film.
2010, Completed, Films
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PS Your Mystery Sender

Director: Benjamin Wigley
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 9'10''
The search for meaning behind unwrapped mysterious objects that world renowned fashion designer Paul Smith has been receiving through the post for the last 20 years.
2010, Completed, Films
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Surpriseville

Director: Tim Travers Hawkins
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 9'05''
In the city of Surprise, Arizona, residents go to great lengths to ensure life is as safe as possible.
2010, Completed, Films
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Dhaka Stories – Waiting for Godot

Director: Md. Arifur Rahman
Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 4'48''
Day Labourers in Dhaka come to terms with the effects of not getting a job.
2010, Completed, Films
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Scottish Documentary Blog

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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