Project Detail

Where You're Meant to Be

Synopsis

Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat, former frontman of indie band Arab Strap sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs. But he doesn’t count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart, a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat’s folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for updating. She does not.
With Stewart’s wrath ringing in his ears, Moffat embarks on a road trip that finds him dressed for battle in a Highland graveyard, caught between feuding monster-hunters at Loch Ness, and singing in a dismissive farmer’s kitchen, before facing Stewart in his home-town of Glasgow for an unlikely final showdown, in this funny wee film about music and death.
Glasgow Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2016
Type of project: Features
Running time: 73 mins
Director: Paul Fegan
Producer: Paul Fegan
Executive Producer: Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle
Editor: David Arthur
Screenwriter: David Arthur, Paul Fegan, Aidan Moffat
Director of Photography: Julian Schwanitz
Sound: Sound Editor: William Aikman; Sound Mixer: Jack Coghill
Principal cast: Aidan Moffat, Sheila Stewart

Genre

Music Scottish Dance

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI)

ECA
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
EH3 9D

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Sales Company

c/o Better Days Ltd

Paul Fegan

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