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The New Ten Commandments

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The New Ten Commandments
Directed byDoug Aubrey
Sana Bilgrami
Mark Cousins
Kenneth Glenaan
Douglas Gordon
David Graham Scott
Nick Higgins
Anna Jones
Alice Nelson
Tilda Swinton
Irvine Welsh
Produced byEwan Angus
Nick Higgins
Carole Sheridan
CinematographyIan Dodds
George Geddes
Minttu Mantynen
Scott Ward
Edited byPatricia Gomes
Klaus Heinecke
Timo Langer
Aldo Palumbo
Music byJim Sutherland
Production
companies
Lansdowne Productions
Scottish Documentary Institute
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The New Ten Commandments is a feature-length documentary film which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008. This documentary film is from a Scottish perception.[1]

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 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments

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  1. The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott
  2. The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins
  3. The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami
  4. The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey
  5. The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan
  6. The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins
  7. The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon
  8. The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones
  9. The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson
  10. The Right to freedom of thought - Directors, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton

The film was scheduled for its first television broadcast as The New 10 Commandments in Scotland on BBC Two Scotland in December 2008.

References

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  1. ^ "The New Ten Commandments - Scottish Documentary Institute". Scottish Documentary Institute. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  2. ^ "The New Ten Commandments (2008)". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  3. ^ "The New Ten Commandments". Bryan Veloso. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
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