Films
Tweed
Writer/Series Director/Camera/VO
BBC4 Docs
Bellwether Media
3X59m x 3
Self-shot on the Z1
Summer 2009
Password: viewfinder
Three part series. Gritty tale of tortured power-battle within the Harris tweed industry. Crofters, weavers, mill-owners and vicars. Islanders take veiled suggestion that they might be slightly behind-the-times very personally, with resultant battle fought out in Stornoway Gazette. Shooting London, Paris New York, Tokyo and Harris.
“Justifies the licence fee” (Tom Sutcliffe,Independent) No 4 in Independent’s 2009 TV Top Ten. BBC sponsored submissions for BAFTA and Grierson Best factual Series Award.
See Episode 1 Trouble Looms here. Episode 2: Harassed Tweed. Episode 3: Hanging by a Thread on Vimeo.