Project Detail

Prince of Muck

Faction North Ltd 2021

Synopsis

In PRINCE OF MUCK retired patriarch Lawrence MacEwen is beginning to live out his final days. As Laird of the Isle of Muck, it has been his mission in life to preserve the fragile society on this Inner Hebridean island, so it may pass to his son, Colin, and future generations. His Sisyphean efforts seem to have worked… but at what cost to him?

Directed by first time feature director Cindy Jansen, PRINCE OF MUCK is a beautifully realised, cinematic documentary about a man struggling to accept he no longer controls his son, his life, nor the isle he so loves. Dutch Director Jansen brings a cool, seemingly detached ‘outside eye’ to a classic Scottish scenario, as a Laird surveys his Life and Land. Jansen's carefully constructed narrative gives space to inter-generational tensions to slow-burn, dramatic effect.

PRINCE OF MUCK starts off as a portrait of an eccentric man, but slowly rises above his family’s history on this particular island, to become a more universal story, a classical rendition of interdependence, a simultaneously transient, yet deep, experience, of a man slowly accepting the eternity that beckons him and, we ultimately recognise, awaits us all.

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Details

Year: 2021
Type of project: Features
Running time: 78 min
Format: Digital
Director: Cindy Jansen 1st Feature
Producer: Grant Keir, Rene Goossens, Annemiek van Gorp
Editor: Katharina Wartena, David Arthur
Screenwriter: Cindy Jansen
Director of Photography: Julian Schwanitz
Sound: Robert McDougall
Composer: David McAulay
Principal cast: Lawrence MacEwen (as himself)

Genre

Scottish Woman Director

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Faction North Ltd / de Productie

Faction North Ltd

1 (T2 f3) Summerhall
Edinburgh EH9 1PL

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Sales Company

Grant Keir

Producer
Faction North Ltd
1 (T2 f3) Summerhall
Edinburgh EH9 1PL

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