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Doug Aubrey from work-in-progress Minefield.
Click
for trailer and channel. We expect to be
ready to premiere at International Mine Awareness Day in early
2013.
View
teaser on the Facebook Stronger page
and look forward to completion of Peter Mackie Burns' adaptation
of Strindberg Stronger
featuring Kate Dickie (Red Road, Prometheus) and Kathleen McDermott
(Milk, Morvern Callar).
©
Alix Fenton
Minefield
-
Doug
Aubrey's buddy movie about war, football and friendship
- is seeking funds to complete shooting and editing.
The trailer is here.
Be in touch if you want
links to the rough cut. Or if no time but still fancy your soul
nurtured, turn to Flickr.....
Until
the Minefield
website is up, i.e. til when we've learnt WordPress!,
follow Minefield on Twitter
@minefieldmovie
Autonomi
on Facebook
Come
Closer,
Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns' first feature - a visual
essay about intimacy, accompanied by startling Sigur Ros - premiered
in Scotland at a packed out GFT in September. We hope to bring
it back soon. Meanwhile see trailer at your right.
2011
snapshots
Click
here for Come Closer website.
Review
by Scots Way Hae!
&
for clever
notes by David Imrie
Follow
us on Twitter
@comecloserfilm
Autonomi
attended the 7th London Kurdish
Film Festival. A total treat, buzzing with amazing films.
Kurdi
and Milk
are now on Indieflix. Click to view or buy either of the classics
here: Milk
or Kurdi.
Come
Closer ,
which premiered at Open City London Documentary Film Festival,
is forever
dedicated to
Editor Bert Eeles who passed away in April. Bert edited
over 100 films - Milk,
Run, parts of Kurdi
and, lastly, Come
Closer.
We all miss him sorely.
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Autonomi
associates get busy helping
Diversity Films produce six shorts for their new scheme
Starting Block.
Autonomi's
Tartan Short Run screened in the Scottish Blend section
at the
European Short Film Festival in Brest.
If
you are interested in donating funds towards producing and completing
Minefield, please
look here for further info, then contact producer Marie
Olesen or click
here. Thanks!
Minefield
is developed with support from Creative Scotland, Channel 4
and DfiD/CBA.
After
premiering at Documenta Madrid, Kurdi went to !fIstanbul
International Independent Film Festival, DocuDays, Krakow Film
Festival and screened in Ireland's first Kurdish
Film Festival in Carrick on Shannon 1-3rd Oct. For more
detail visit
Film Ireland's website.
Watch
Doug Aubrey interview here.
Glasgow's
Streetlevel Gallery ran Pictorial Heroes videoartestry, Lost
and Found which as part of the International Visual Arts
Festival.
Islamophobia,
Autonomi's film for Show Racism the Red Card recently won Best
Film at the Scottish Muslim Awards.
Watch
the post-screening Q&A of Kurdi
at
!f
istanbul here!
Click
here for more info about !f Istanbul International Independent
Film Festival
Kurdi
trailer on YouTube.com/Autonomixtv
&
38minutes.
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2009
saw Doug
Aubrey & Peri Ibrahim's Kurdi nominated Best Feature
Film in the BAFTA Scotland Awards.
BAFTA
Scotland Feature Film nominated Kurdi world premiering
at Documenta Madrid and subsequently screening at Krakow Film
Festival, opening Refugee Week Scotland's 1st film festival,
featuring in the London Kurdish Film Festival and competing
in DocuDays and the European 4 Screens Festival in Paris.
Alex
Bikuna and Adam Barnet completed Banda Europa about
Jim Sutherland's unique orchestra is completed and sneak premiered
at MORE
THAN A RETROSPECTIVE ON SPANISH CINEMA
Doug
Aubrey's A Different
Pitch played at 11mm - the International Football
Film Festival in Berlin.
Scotty
Lee and his Spirit Of Soccer charity picked up Most Courageous
Use of Sport gong at the Beyond
Sport summit in London. Autonomi are developing Minefieldwith
Mr Lee - click
here to view some clips.
Watch
Kurdi, a documentary feature by Peri Ibrahim, filmed
and directed by Doug Aubrey over 5 years in Scotland and the
Middle East, online on Filmotech's website. Click
here for link.
Kurdi
is produced with financial support from
MEDIA,
Glasgow Film Office, Arc
& Scottish
Screen.
OOO
Enjoy
Autonomi titles on Joost! Preview A
Different Pitch, Bedroom Radio &
See You in the Next War by clicking
here. Or make them your own films to keep.
Or
go to Babelgum who hosts Harrigan's
Beat, and two of Aubrey's Balkan films A
Different Pitch & Louder than
Bombs.
Wasted
Nation competed
in the Best Current Affairs documentary category
at the Celtic Media Festival in Caernafon,
March 25-27th. Didnae win though;(
Doug
Aubrey's A
Different Pitch played at 11mm
2009 - the International Football
Film Festival in Berlin, April 3-7th.
Other
News
11.03.09
Doug Aubrey will be part of a panel discussing this in the ECA
from 2pm Friday - the 13th - Documenting Conflict -
A Gaza Perspective. It's a special event organised
by Pilton Video and the Scottish Documentary Institute. The
panel is chaired by Nick Higgins and followed by a screening
of the remarkable Paradise Now in
the Filmhouse. Click here for more info.
25.02.09.
Autonomi have produced two films for Show Racism the Red Card:
Islamophobia and its Scottish
campaign film. View the trailer ...................>>>>>
Both
films are dubbed by Leo Saidenough & edited by Cassandra
McGrogan.
18.02.09
New blog up. Pls Follow, Use & comment.
Kingsway
Eye heroines Jean Donnachie and Noreen
Real have won the Scots Women of the Year Award.
Aye, they're the ones Jim Loach is making a film about.
Click
for link.
The
feature length documentary New Ten Commandments
, including Autonomi's contribution This is what
happens to Black Boys with Big Mouths,
about Aamer Anwar's contempt of court trial screens
this Sunday, Jan 25th in Glasgow Film Theatre 2.45pm.
©David
Graham Scott.
2008
17.12.08
Autonomi have just completed two films for Show Racism the Red
Card: Islamophobia and its Scottish
campaign film.
08.12.08
New Ten Commandments , including
Autonomi's contribution This is what happens to
Black Boys with Big Mouths,
about Aamer Anwar's contempt of court trial, screened
on BBC2 Scotland last night. The feature lenght documentary
is now touring various venues across Scotland.
29.11.08
While trawling through some early camera tapes for Doug Aubrey's
Victim of Geography, we came across some archive of Sarajevo's
answer to the Sex Pistols, Sikter playing live in Mostar in
the summer of 1996. So the legend goes the gig was cut short
by Croatian forces on the opposite side of the bridge, who threatened
to launch a mortar barrage if the band completed their set.
See what you make of these shell shocked rockers yourself by
clicking here.
For
more info on Victim of Geogrpahy visit the blog.
10.11.08
And the BAFTA for Best News and Current Affairs programme didn't
go to Autonomi. But Wasted Nation
got nominated. Trailer on Video Wall.
Wasted
Nation (Doug Aubrey).
24.10.08.
Autonomi's partner in crime - and work - Diversity Films,
will have two of their productions: ExNE - the Movie and Saturday
Sports Scene screening on Community Channel shortly. Click here
for a sneak preview.
Preview
copies for festivals & sales available from Autonomi.
Contact Autonomi for festivals and general interest and email
Looking Glass International for sales queries.
Check back for more info soon.
Bedroom
Radio can be viewed on the Scots Language
Centre site. Click here.
Autonomi’s
contribution to the New Ten Commandments
- freedom of expression film This is What Happens
to Black Boys with Big Mouths -premiered at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival, and
screened as Best of Fest.
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