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from Duncan Cowles PRO
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)
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