Perfect Sense
Produced by local production outfit Sigma Films and directed by David Mackenzie, Perfect Sense shot entirely on location in Glasgow over 5 weeks in 2009. The film stars Ewan McGregor and Eva Green and involved shutting off large areas of the city for dramatic action scenes. The film has a scheduled cinema release of October 2011. |
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Field of Blood
Adapted from the popular Denise Mina novel written and directed by David Kane (Taggart, Rebus, Sea of Souls), crime drama Field of Blood is set in Glasgow, and centres on would-be journalist Paddy Meehan (Jayd Johnson), a young copygirl working in a newspaper office. This Slate Films production shot in and around Glasgow for 4 weeks in October 2010 with support from Glasgow Film Office. The production aired on BBC Scotland in May 2011.
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Hattie
Ruth Jones takes on the role of the larger-than-life Carry On actress in this BBC4 one off drama. The project follows Hattie Jacques, and reveals how her home life was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier. The Angel Eye production shot entirely in Scotland with 3 weeks of filming taking place in Glasgow in 2010.
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Neds
Peter Mullan's third feature as a writer and director, after Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters, returns him to the 1970s Glasgow. Neds is a coming-of-age drama which follows an intelligent boy as he struggles to cope with gang warfare, an alcoholic father and class barriers. Neds shot on location in Glasgow in July 2009 with a scheduled cinema release of January 2011
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Donkeys
The follow-up to the 2006 film Red Road, tragi-comic Donkeys is the second part of the Advance Party trilogy. In-line with the trilogy’s rules, Donkeys revisits characters from Red Road but gives them different back stories and relationships, this time following pensioner Alfred (James Cosmo) as he attempts to reunite with estranged daughter, Jackie (Kate Dickie). This Sigma film shot on location in Glasgow back in 2008 and premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2010.
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Lip Service
Starring Laura Fraser, Ruta Gedmintas and Fiona Button, Lip Service follows the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something lesbians. The 6 part series was written by Harriet Braun (Mistresses, Attachments) and produced by Kudos Film And Television through BBC Scotland. Lip Service was filmed entirely on location in Glasgow in late 2009 and airs on BBC 3 from October 2010.
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Single Father
David Tennant and Suranne Jones star in Single Father, a touching yet humorous drama written by Mick Ford. The series tells the story of Dave (David Tennant), a photographer facing the seemingly impossible job of bringing up four kids alone after the sudden death of his wife, Rita. Single Father, which filmed on location in Glasgow in Spring 2010, is made by Red Production Company for BBC One through BBC Scotland and airs October 2010.
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Garrows Law
A four part legal drama inspired by the life of pioneering barrister William Garrow for BBC One by Shed Productions starring Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong and Lyndsey Marshal. The project filmed for a couple of days on location in Glasgow with interior scenes completed at BBC Scotland?s newly-developed drama studios in Dumbarton in 2009.
The project also returned for a second series in June 2010.
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Legacy
Legacy is a US set psychological thriller from Black Camel Pictures starring Idris Elba (Obsessed, The Wire). Elba plays Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray who returns to a Brooklyn hotel after a failed mission in Eastern Europe where he undergoes an intense journey on a quest for personal retribution. Glasgow doubled as New York when this film shot in the city in late 2009.
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Valhalla Rising
Produced by local company La Belle Allee Productions, Ipso Facto, NWR and Nimbus Film, this Nicolas Winding Refn’s film; starring Mads Mikkelsen shot interiors in Glasgow in the latter half of 2008. Glasgow Film Office invested in the project and managed to get some exclusive access on set.
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Hope Springs
An eight part drama for BBC One by Shed Productions, starring Alex Kingston, filmed for a couple of days on location in Glasgow with interior scenes completed at BBC Scotland’s newly-developed drama studios in Dumbarton in 2008.
www.hopesprings.uk.com
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Personal Affairs
A 2AM TV production commissioned by BBC Scotland, Personal Affairs is a five-part drama created by Gabby Asher for BBC Three. The project shot on location in Glasgow with interior scenes shot at BBC Scotland’s drama studios in Dumbarton in 2008.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/personalaffairs
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