Ma Bar Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall
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Ma Bar
Paese/Country: UK
Anno Produzione Film: 2008
Formato/Format: Digibeta
Durata/Running Time: 12'
Produzione/Production: Imagine Pictures
Produttore/Producer: Finlay Pretsell e Adrian McDowall
Montaggio/Editing: Mark Jenkins
Fotografia/Cinematography: Blair Scott e Filip Sycynski
Sound Editor: John Cobban
Musica/Music: Matthew Aldworth
Cast: Bill McFadyen
Distribuzione/Distribution: Scottish Documentary Institute
Bill McFayden è un'atleta molto speciale. È grande, grosso, muscoloso. È un sollevatore di pesi agonista. E ha 73 anni. Da una delle realtà produttive più interessanti nel campo dei documentari, Scottish Screen, un film in equilibrio perfetto tra la bellezza delle immagini e la tensione e lo sforzo connaturati a uno sport non facilmente filmabile. E la "bench press" non è mai stata ripresa in modo così elegante.
Bill McFayden is a very special athlete. He is tall, big, and brawny. He is a professional weightlifter, and he is 73. Scottish Screen, a production house that has launched some of the most interesting documentaries, has produced this film, which is a perfect balance between visual beauty and the tension and effort typical of a sport that is not easy to film. The bench press had never been filmed in such an elegant way before.
Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowallAnno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1979 (Finlay Pretsell), 1978 (Adrian McDowall)
Paese/Country: Scotland
Biografia/Biography:
Finlay Pretsell:
Finlay started working for the Scottish Documentary Institute in 2005, during which time he has acted as Production Assistant and Production Manager on a number of short films, including Butterfly and The Truth About Tooth both of which were nominated for a Scottish BAFTA in 2006 & 2007 respectively and played in festivals around the world.
In 2005, he also worked with the BBC as a researcher on Maps for Britain and as a Production Assistant for BBC Radio Scotland.
Following a successful career competing worldwide for the Scottish Cycling Team, Finlay has gone on to co-produce and co-direct Standing Start, with Adrian McDowall an experimental documentary about Scottish Olympic cyclist Craig MacLean, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Best Newcomer award. The film has also played in festivals around the world.
He also collaborated with Adrian McDowall with whom he has the company Imagine Pictures with on 3 short sport documentaries entitled The Art in Sport commissioned by a local council in collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute. One of these 3 films entitled Ma Bar completed in 2008 won the BAFTA Scotland short film award, it premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival, and had it's international premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
He is currently developing a number of documentary and fiction projects.
Adrian McDowall:
Over the past ten years, writer, director and producer, Adrian McDowall has amassed over 50 national and international awards and nominations for his short films, documentaries, TV dramas, commercials and promos; including two BAFTA Awards, an RTS Award, an XFM Music Video of The Year Nomination and a Grierson Documentary Award Nomination.
His films have screened worldwide at hundreds of International Film Festivals including; Sundance, Hot Docs, Berlin, London, Edinburgh, LA, New York and Toronto.
He has directed televsion dramas for ITV and the BBC with budgets ranging from 50k - 750k and commercials for clients such as the UK & Scottish Government and Waste Aware Scotland.
In February 2009, Adrian was selected by Lars Von Trier's Zentropa and Sigma Films, as one of eight award winning first-time feature film-makers for the new feature film collective Advance Party II. Following on from the success of Advance Party I, which produced Cannes Jury Prize Winner Red Road, the filmmakers have devised their own dogme style rules and are currently writing their feature film scripts. The films will be produced over the next two years.
In June 2009, Adrian was included on Screen International's prestigious "Stars of Tomorrow" list.
Finlay Pretsell:
Standing Start, UK, 2007, doc
Slice, UK, 2008, doc
One Track Mind, UK, 2008, doc
Ma Bar, UK, 2008, doc
Adrian McDowall:
Who's My Favourite Girl?, UK, 1999, cm
The Toon Fair, UK, 2001, cm
Wise Guys, UK, 2004, cm
Ma Bar, UK, 2008, doc
