Projects in genres: Scottish

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The 'Shooter' (Paul Hunter) is on a mission in the mountains, lochs and forests of Scotland. A veteran of battles in foreign lands, is still haunted by visions of man's terrible inhumanity to man, but when he encounters the beauty of nature, he makes his choice of weapon.

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‘She’s out every night’, the villagers gossip until Mary’s parents can’t take it anymore. So when her father follows and discovers where she’s going, he finds her more lost to them than they could ever imagine.

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In the aftermath of World War 1, an expectant bride from a well-to-do family marries her young lover. No happy-ever-after tale this, and The Tenement Ghost draws us swiftly into a sordid world of violence and despair. Yes, it begins well enough, the couple embarking on a grand European honeymoon, but the groom's thirst for alcohol is shortly apparent.

Returning to begin their new life together, the bride finds her efforts to nurture the marriage thwarted by her husband's excessive drinking. He dominates the relationship but spirals into alcoholism, his arrogance and self-loathing manifest in physical and emotional violence. Her rapid transition from starry-eyed bride to battered wife is marked by the appearance of a ghostly apparition and, though we are never sure whether this spectre is real or simply a fantasy borne of her brutal situation, its appearances become more frequent as her personality disintegrates.

The death of their unborn child pushes her ever closer to the edge of sanity until the ghostly visitor's promptings finally impel her into a last desperate attempt to free herself from torment, bringing the Tenement Ghost to its ghastly and appalling climax.

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Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.

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Dare you enter the realm of the witch when she has yet to exact her revenge on those who sought to destroy her.

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During the 17th of August 1992 two ordinary men, Garry and Colin, had an extraordinary encounter that propelled them into the unfamiliar realm of the paranormal.

A70 is the disturbing yet compelling true story of what happened to Garry and Colin that fateful night and the terrifying events that unfolded over the following months. Based on the reported facts, A70 recounts what at first appears to be a brief encounter with a strange object on a Scottish road, but nightmares and strange visions slowly reveal that something far more sinister occurred during what to them seemed only a few seconds. As the men search for answers their world is ultimately torn apart by what they discovered.

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Shot in a week by a lone British woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, this funny, moving Grey Gardens/Maysles Brothers style cinema verite doc contrasts the lives of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic expats (one British, one Dutch) living in a squat next to millionaire yachts, with the glamour of Cannes Film Festival.

Life mirrors art as the filmmaker accidentally becomes homeless during shooting and turns the camera on herself. Shows the dark side of British expat life in luxury sunny destinations.

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Alone and tangled in an ancient washing line, a decrepit Deirdre is forced to confront a lifetime of woe and regret. As the sun sets and a bitter cold sweeps in, she is assailed by fragments of a past peppered with indignant lovers, resentful friends, and a neglectful family.

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It's been 20 years since Peri the Kurd first walked into the town of Halabja in the aftermath of the chemical gas attack Saddam Hussein launched against the Kurdish people. 20 years since he buried his best friend and his Kalashnikov and walked west.

West and West and West and until I ended up in Glasgow, which was as west as I could get.

Filmed over 5 years, Kurdi tells the story of a man in search of himself, his people, his gun and a country that doesn't exist.

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A bare-knuckle fight has been arranged by a Glasgow crime boss to impress his new business partner. He pays former Kickboxing Champion Bill Stewart to throw the fight, to gain the drugs and money from the other Glasgow crime bosses in attendance. The other two crime bosses discover this plan and double Bill’s money to win the fight.

After Bill double crosses the crime boss and wins the fight, he and his wife Sue are killed in retaliation, but Bill’s teenage daughter Rachael is a witness to her parent’s murder. Rachael moves to London, changes her surname to Smith and enters the kickboxing circuit. She then meets up with Special Forces turned hit man Jack Duncan who trains her in weaponry and the skills of being a hit man; thus becoming the ultimate machine for revenge!

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A young woman who lives alone is paranoid that there may be someone else in the house with her.

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Landscape painter Angus Stewart's first film is a playful portrait of his home town, Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. The structure of the film is a year made into one day, showing times of year and events in a small highland community. A quirky rework of the traditional tourist film form.