Director, Alastair Cole, and producer, Nick Higgins have been selected by the European Documentary Network (EDN) to take part in a rough cut feedback session with multi-award winning editor Nils Pagh Andersen, editor of the Oscar nominated The Act of Killing.
Alastair and Nick will screen excerpts from their work in production feature documentary, The Colours of the Alphabet.
A Massacre Foretold has been selected to screen at the DOCSDF film festival in Mexico City this September. For more info see: www.docsdf.com
The film will also screen at the Providence Latin American Film Festival on Rhode Island in the USA this September. For more info see: www.plaff.org
We Are Northern Lights has been selected to screen at the 2015 edition of Docpoint: The Helsinki International Documentary Film Festival.
Nick Higgins is the creative director of Northern Lights, the first ever mass particpation documentary to be undertaken in Scotland.
The film is currently in production. See here for the latest information www.wearenorthernlights.com
Hidden Gifts: The Mystery of Angus MacPhee has won the jury award at the 2008 Scottish Mental Health and Arts Film Festival.
The award was presented to Nick Higgins at the Edinburgh Filmhouse on Sunday the 12th of October. When receiving the award Nick said, “he was delighted that the film continued to resonate with diverse communities across the world and to help contribute to a changing culture in terms of how mental health and illness are understood.”
For more information see: http://mentalhealthfestival.dreamhosters.com
We are delighted to announce that we are working with director Alastair Cole and New Zealand based Tongue Tied films as producers on the forthcoming feature documentary, The Colours of the Alphabet.
Filmed over 12 months in rural Zambia, The Colours of the Alphabet explores the universal issue of multi-lingual education. In a country of 72 indigenous languages, we follow three Zambian children and their parents as they ask the question, must the future always be in English?
This new book and DVD package is now available to buy! Ten creative documentary films are employed as a means to teach school pupils, young people, community workers and other interested groups how to understand Human Rights in Scotland.
This March AMF screened at Kosmora – the Nowegian International Film Festival in Trondheim
see: kosmorama.no
Also this March AMF screened in Paris at the Human Rights Film Festival
see: festival-droitsdelhomme.org