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from Duncan Cowles
Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, mundane and funny side of being trapped inside your own head as an out of work, self-employed freelancer.
Commissioned by Channel 4 for Random Acts Series 4 Subtitles Available: English, French, German, Russian (Click CC)
AWARDS Winner - Royal Television Society Scotland Award 2018 Winner - Audience Award, Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2018 Winner - Audience Award, Szczecin European Film Festival 2018 Winner - Frēsh18 Carbon Award Nominated - IPSE Freelance Project of the Year 2019
OFFICIAL SELECTION 02/2018 – Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (USA) 03/2018 - Glasgow Short Film Festival (UK) 04/2018 - Dresden International Short Film Festival (Germany) 04/2018 - Flatpack Film Festival (UK) 04/2018 - Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine) 04/2018 - Cellu l'art Short Film Festival (Germany) 05/2018 - Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium) 06/2018 - VIS Vienna Shorts Festival (Austria) 06/2018 - 'A Wall is a Screen' @ 34th Hamburg Short Film Festival (Germany) 06/2018 - XPONorth (UK) 06/2018 - Shortest Nights, Short Sighted Cinema (UK) 09/2018 - Roma Creative Contest (Italy) 09/2018 - Encounters Short Film Festival (UK) 10/2018 - BFI London Film Festival (UK) 10/2018 - Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden) 10/2018 - DokumentART European Film Festival (Germany) 10/2018 - Szczecin European Film Festival (Poland) 11/2018 - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland) 11/2018 - Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival (Germany) 11/2018 - Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK) 11/2018 - Inverness Film Festival (UK) 12/2018 - Black Nights Film Festival - PÖFF (Estonia) 01/2019 - London Short Film Festival (UK) 01/2019 - British Shorts Berlin (Germany) 04/2019 - GoShort International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Holland)
PRESS bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/encounters-short-film-animation-2018-preview-10-best-watch theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/26/nourish-your-mind-the-31-day-short-film-diet-for-january theskinny.co.uk/film/interviews/meet-duncan-cowles-nick-broomfield-without-the-ego itsnicethat.com/articles/duncan-cowles-taking-stock-random-acts-film-041217 shortoftheweek.com/2018/01/08/taking-stock directorsnotes.com/2018/01/18/duncan-cowles-taking-stock tv.booooooom.com/2018/01/15/taking-stock-duncan-cowles blog.goshort.nl/taking-stock-duncan-cowles shortoftheweek.com/news/best-month-february-2018/ read.kinoscope.org/2019/01/04/top-five-shorts-of-2018/?fbclid=IwAR24HvPE9bMErZQ2X_eWOxHT7eQ4BuYxJdjvaw-ivxlreX1-G-DbF9MPhM8 glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-short-film-festival/latest/programmeNotes/taking-stock-sis-2018 thenewcurrent.co.uk/taking-stock
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