Projects in genres: Scottish

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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.

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An 18 year-old girl arrives at St Andrews University in 2001 to find an alien world of glossy, upper-class girls intent on seducing their fellow student Prince William. Isolated, she finds hope in a mysterious boy who wears a silver jacket.

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'If you want a Ned, I'll give you a fu*king Ned!' Glasgow, 1973. On the brink of adolescence, young John McGill's about to start secondary school. He's a bright boy, a sensitive boy, eager to learn, but the cards are stacked high against him. The McGill family's dirt poor, his hated father's a drunken bully. His teachers - punishing John for the 'sins' of his older brother Benny - are down on him from the start. John's on his own. And then there's the gangs. The Neds. Non-Educated Delinquents. The bad boys with weapons and attitude: cheap drugs, glam rock, fumbling sex, the violence and the camaraderie of the streets. Local monsters. Local heroes. Benny's fearsome reputation buys John protection, and then a way in. Scared, resentful, full of rage, John makes his decision. If no one else will give him a chance: fu*k them. John takes to the savage life of the streets with a vengeance. But as his rage and frustration spin him further and further out of control, he is left facing a blank wall. No future. With one extraordinary chance of redemption.

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Reaney wants to belong. When he runs away from home he has to survive on his own.

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Greer’s weird. Everyone in the Village thinks so... This ravishingly visual short takes the audience on a beautiful journey to its dark heart. Ruth Paxton has written and directed a captivating tragedy where virtue is not rewarded and dreams don’t come true.

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Commissioned as part of the 'Bridging the Gap' production scheme, At Home with the Jedi is a domestic portrait about faith, family and future, meeting the founders of the UK's Church of Jediism, whose galactic ambitions reach far beyond their small town existence.

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In October 2005, five young people were kidnapped in the Highlands of Scotland. Stripped and hunted like animals, like the stags they'd been hunting, their ordeal was filmed and released on the internet, where it became myth. An extreme animal rights group claimed responsibility. It was a statement, a warning to others: 'If you hunt animals, we'll hunt you.' Blooded  is a thriller. Combining dramatic reconstruction and talking-head interviews with the survivors, Blooded  tells the compelling story behind one of the most extreme internet viral films of all time. Powerfully acted in the stunning landscape of the Scottish Highlands, this brutal and beautiful tale of extremism reveals a very human story of love, loyalty and betrayal.