Tag: Documentary
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Student film documents life under lockdown
HNC Film & Television student Graeme Ross recently completed a short feature, documenting his immediate family’s experiences and thoughts over lockdown. Most of the footage was shot towards the end of Graeme’s NQ course in Film and Photography at New College Lanarkshire and over the Summer break before he began his HNC. Graeme writes: “A…
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Maclej by name: magic by nature
An NQ Film and Photography student has made good use of his time during the Covid-19 lockdown. Maclej Gapik finished editing his documentary “Citizen of the World” which documents his travels to far-flung corners such as Jordan, Iceland, Italy and Durness. Writing about his film he said; “I am interested in exploring new things, meeting…
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Andrew Dunn: Forever Moments
My factual feature is based around Gregg McNeil a wet plate collodion photographer originally from the United States. He runs a studio in Larbert, Falkirk, the only commercial wet plate photography business in the UK. I would like to question him about why he has chosen this form of photography and turn it into a…
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Short Cuts: Film Screening
On Monday the 9th December film students, friends and family gathered at the CCA in Glasgow for a night of short films and documentaries produced in the first term by HN Film students at NCL’s Cumbernauld campus. The programme included Film Noir trailers and Horror films from our HNC students and a range of diverse…
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NCL Short Cuts: Film Screening, 9th December 2019
Monday 9th of December is the date for a night of short films from NCL HN Film and Television students, which are being screened in Centre of Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Students across both HNC and HND levels of Film and Television have been invited to show the features they have been working on in…
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Nae Pasaran!: Screening and Director Q & A
Film and TV students from NQ and HN courses at Cumbernauld campus were treated to a special screening of the documentary ” Nae Pasaran!” at the Glasgow Film Theatre organised by the Educational Charity”Into Film“. Felipe Bustos Sierra’s film chronicles the true story of how principled Scottish factory workers at Rolls Royce in East Kilbride…
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Cage Break
HND Film & Television student Yvette Malone’s short documentary exposes the cruel practices involved in the battery hen industry and how three ex-caged hens were rescued and re-housed. The documentary mixes hard hitting archive footage with location interviews and a skyped video presentation from the American animal activist Gary Yourofsky. Following on from her HND…
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Heart to Heart
Heart to Heart is a short documentary feature, filmed, edited and produced by Duncan Formosa. Duncan’s film aimed to raise awareness of his brother’s rare heart condition “Hypoplastic right heart syndrome” and the effect it had on his family. In addition to researching, filming and editing the documentary Duncan also scored the soundtrack for this production.…
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The Carmen Bear
The Carmen Bear is a short documentary directed and edited by Kieran Gallagher during his HND course at NCL. Filmed entirely on location in County Tyrone, Ireland, the documentary profiles upcoming amateur heavyweight boxer Rauri Haughey, as he prepares for a fight at the Patrician Hall in his hometown of Carrickmore. Kieran took on a…
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Young Man’s Old Man
“Politics is in a kerfuffle at the moment. The usual suspects are being rejected and all kinds of crazy individuals are taking the reins. Arguably, this started with the rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, and the reactions were strong. But they were all a rather singular voice, all a bit, past it. I…