Scottish
Screen have announced backing for a further
five films, as follows;
PRODUCTION
AWARDS UNDER £25K
Unscrew Hopscotch
Films Ltd
Pr:
Carolynne Kidd Wr/Dir: Clara Glynn
Awarded
£24,000
Judy
and Sam are splitting up. Unscrew takes
place in the 24 hours before Judy moves out…sharing
out their possessions and fighting over who
gets what. When Judy wakes up early next morning
she realises there’s just one more thing
of Sam’s she’ll have to take with
her!
PRODUCTION
AWARDS OVER £25K
Blanketmen
& Dreamers Asylum Films Ltd
Pr:
Paul Kenny/Kristina Pervilla Wr/Dr Des Bell
£40,000
Production Award
A
creative documentary exploring the combative
role of European emigrants in the early US labour
movement and questioning how we write history.
Using archive photos and early silent film footage,
together with eyewitness accounts, personal
testimony and dramatised narrative voices we
construct a forgotten moment in the Wild West
Ferry
Up The Amazon Armac Films Ltd.
Pr:
Catherine Woodford Wr/Dr Alex McCall
£65,883
production award
It’s
Fitzcarraldo meets The Vital Spark. An out of
work west Highland ferry crew navigate the upper
reaches of the Amazon in a decommissioned vessel,
bringing hope to street children there.
Through
Hell & High Water Taylored Productions
Ltd
Pr/Dir
Elly Taylor
£82,500
production award
A
film that will merge the past with the present
bringing together survivors from a long forgotten
World War II rescue that took place in the freezing
Arctic seas for the first time since 1944, while
paying honour to human compassion and heroism.
The
Window Cleaner Caspian Production
Ltd.
Pr:
Nigel Harper Wr: Andy Gonzalez Dr:
Steven Morrison
£45,000
short film award
A
dark magic fable telling the story of a greedy
and obnoxious young boy who discovers what happens
when "your eyes are bigger than your belly."
