The New Ten Commandments | |
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Directed by | Doug Aubrey Sana Bilgrami Mark Cousins Kenneth Glenaan Douglas Gordon David Graham Scott Nick Higgins Anna Jones Alice Nelson Tilda Swinton Irvine Welsh |
Produced by | Ewan Angus Nick Higgins Carole Sheridan |
Cinematography | Ian Dodds George Geddes Minttu Mantynen Scott Ward |
Edited by | Patricia Gomes Klaus Heinecke Timo Langer Aldo Palumbo |
Music by | Jim Sutherland |
Production companies | Lansdowne Productions Scottish Documentary Institute |
Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott and Anna Jones. [2]
The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [3]
The film was scheduled for its first television broadcast as The New 10 Commandments in Scotland on BBC Two Scotland in December 2008.
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