Projects in genres: Scottish

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A teenage girl living in a remote petrol station in the Scottish Highlands is taken closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape when a salesman stops and offers her a taste of the outside world.

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A mockumentary following a rulerites sufferer.

Keith Mackie suffers from a very rare neurological disease called rulerites, a condition that means he can only walk in straight lines. By August 2006, there were only 48 recorded cases in the UK. Dr. Cameron Pirie of the University of Edinburgh attempts to tackle Keith's condition through a course of specially designed exercises. Can he cure Keith's condition

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Bored by her neglectful father, young Emma goes in search of a friend and finds the perfect one in Lewis, her new mysterious neighbour. An entertainer, Lewis shows her a world of magic, music and milkshakes. However, her brief moment of happiness is brought to a dramatic end.

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As a hard-pressed family struggles to get home after a days shopping, a young girl discovers that mum doesn't always know best.

Sweetie follows seven year-old Tash and her family - mum Lynn, dad Kevin and little brother Ewan - as they attempt to catch a bus home after a day out at the local shopping centre.

Life is sweet, until they discover that they don't have the correct change for the bus and are subsequently 'thrown off'. Watched by a voyeuristic crowd both on the bus and at the bus stop, small actions and reactions cause more problems and humiliation for the family.

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In this urban ghost story set in a supermarket, we find our heroine Isabel resigning her self to a life of shelf stacking and shop displays at Cheapi Cheapi Cutz, where Stanley the manager bosses her around and memory of her mother undermining her, grinds her down.

She is forced into action, however, when she is visited by a very unusual ghost and given an ultimatum she cannot refuse!

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A young girl rescues a seal and is given a mysterious shell that contains the gift of time. Animated in sand.

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Young Jack's first journey from home takes him to the land of enchantment where he pits his wits and courage against the Green Man of Knowledge. His efforts are rewarded, but not without a fight.

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A car idles at the end of a dirt track, its headlights pointing out into the forest. Inside: two women. The Redhead has a gun. She idly, but dangerously, holds it on the Blonde girl beside her. Redhead does most of the talking. Blonde's eyes dart in quiet fear as she hears about what her 'faithful' man has been up to. With Redhead. Not just sex, but business. Lucrative. And criminal. He's not the man Blonde thought he was. Jesus, that's an understatement. Is Redhead telling the truth? Is Blonde in this situation simply because Redhead changed her mind and doesn't want to share the spoils of the last job they did together? A simple hostage handover? Or is it even simpler: Redhead wanted him all to herself and he said no. Revenge. Either way, he's late arriving. And Redhead's trigger-finger is beginning to twitch.

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A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft. Forced to abandon their crippled ship the survivors land on 'The Planet'. Soon they discover that they are not alone, as they battle to survive they begin to fall prey to a malevolent force. A force which turns the souls of their fallen comrades against them. Forming a rescue plan the survivors race to carry it out while they still can.

Unknown to the team, the prisoner is also on the planet and his presence there could change the universe as they know it, forever.

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Since 1995 The Really Terrible Orchestra has provided refuge for the cream of Edinburgh's musically disadvantaged. Who are these people? Why do they play? And why oh why do people listen?

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The Rest is Silence follows the course of an unclaimed body through its progress from discovery to burial. It focuses not on the body, but on those who guide it through the processes and rituals preceding its interment.

The characters of these people are explored visually, without commentary.

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In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil.

Forty years later, Betty Beane sets off with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart, to fulfill the dying wish of her husband and find their long lost son.