The Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest always refreshes excitingmemories from that day 25th. March 1972, when my self-funded apprentice film, ‘Beneath the Skyline: Edinburgh to Music’ opened the BBC’s broadcast from the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Celebrating [...]
BUTCHER: Invisible Wounds.
Sir Bobby Robson had already seen our two self-funded, award winning Olympic Games Films: “The Long Sprint: Diary of an Olympic Athlete” (Montreal 1976) and “No Easy Way: Allan Wells - One Man’s Olympics”(Moscow1980) before [...]
SEVEN LAST WORDS FROM THE CROSS
The Late Doctor James Hunter produced the first and only pop-promo to ever accompany James MacMillan’s fabulous music, starring Capella Nova and the BT Ensemble. What actually happened, was the BBC commissioned James MacMillan to [...]
SWEETWATER MEMORIES
I was in the middle of a war zone. All sorts of detritus, including human remains, floated along this diseased ridden waterway known as the Sweetwater Canal, built to facilitate the construction of the Suez Canal. [...]
Robert Redford with John McGrath
The Late Robert Redford set up the ‘Sundance Institute’ in 1981 with its headquarters in Utah. Its purpose was to support and develop aspiring independent writers, and directors to rehearse, shoot and edit four to six [...]
Shaping the shadows
The eye is a trusted reflection of the soul (paraphrased fromJane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte). In 1972 as many of you already know, my self-fundedapprentice piece was seen by over 400,000,000 people(BBC figs). https://lnkd.in/eGqv2rwE [...]