The New Ten Commandments
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 |
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
[edit]- The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott
- The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins
- The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami
- The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey
- The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan
- The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins
- The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon
- The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones
- The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson
- 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
[edit]- ^ "The New Ten Commandments - Scottish Documentary Institute". Scottish Documentary Institute. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "The New Ten Commandments (2008)". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ "The New Ten Commandments". Bryan Veloso. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
External links
[edit]- The New Ten Commandments webpage.
- The New Ten Commandments at IMDb
- The New Ten Commandments at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
- The New 10 Commandments as a BBC Programme.
- 2008 films
- 2008 documentary films
- Codes of conduct
- Scottish documentary films
- Documentary films about human rights
- Human rights in Scotland
- British anthology films
- Ten Commandments
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s British films
- English-language documentary films
- British documentary film stubs
- 2000s British film stubs
- Mass media in Scotland stubs