Scottish Digital Shorts, Incubator & Scottish Shorts (2008-14)

Over the last six years (2008-2014) – financed by Creative Scotland, UKFC/BFI, BBC Scotland, Channel 4 and others – Edge City Films sister company DigiCult has developed, produced and exec produced 20 live action, animated and documentary shorts with emerging British talent.

These productions include BAFTA and BIFA nominated ‘Rite’ (Michael Pearce, 2010), BAFTA winning animations ‘Fixing Luka (Jessica Ashman, 2011) and Battenberg (Stewart Comrie, 2009), and Cutting Loose (Adrian Macdowell & Finlay Pretsel, 2011), winner of Best Documentary Short at Flickerfest and Encounters 2012.

A new programme of Scottish Shorts was launched in partnership with Hopscotch Films in 2012 and the resulting slate premieres January 2014 with competition selections at Sundance Film Festival (Exchange and Mart) and Berlinale (E&M and Seagulls).

Catalogue For more information, please visit DigiCult’s Short Film

  • Writer / Director

    Jessica Ashman (2010)

    Kate Burton (2009)

    Tom Chick (2011)

    Stewart Comrie (2009)

    Zachariah Copping (2011)

    Stuart Elliot (2010)

    Iain Gardner (2009)

    Gregor Johnstone (2009/2010)

    Catriona Macinnes (2010)

    Adrian Macdowell / Finlay Pretsell (2011)

    Ruth Paxton (2009)

    Michael Pearce (2010)

    Eva Riley (2011)

    Cara Connolly & Martin Clark (2013)

    Martin Smith (2013)

    Iain Waugh (2013)

    Rory Stewart (2013)

    Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson (2013)

  • Written by

    Kenny MacLeod (2009)

  • Directed by

    Michael Keillor (2009)

  • Produced by

    Ciara Barry (2009-10)

    Rosie Crerar (2009-10)

    Philippa Farnese (2011)

    Anke Hilt (2009)

    Ross McKenzie (2010)

    Anna Odell (2009-11)

    Martyn Robertson (2010)

    Suzanne Reid (2010)

    Richard Scott (2009)

    Deva Smith (2009-10)

    Peter Thornton (2009)

    Paul Welsh (2009-11)

  • Financed by

    BBC Scotland

    Channel 4

    Creative Scotland

    Scottish Screen