The Sundance Collection at UCLA

Our documentary Breadmakers (Director Yasmin Fedda) has been added to the Sundance Collection at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 

The Sundance Collection at UCLA was established in 1997 in order to provide long-term access to independent film production. It’s a joint effort between the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Sundance Institute. 

The Sundance Collection at UCLA underscores the importance of independent production while recognising that such films are at much greater risk of disappearing from the public sphere than larger budget, studio-based cinema.

Breadmakers was originally screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.

Breadmakers at The Sprout Touring Film Festival

Breadmakers is to be screened as part of the 2013 Sprout Touring Film Festival at The Society for Handicapped Citizens of Medina County. The film was previously shown at the 9^th Sprout Film Festival New York in May 2011.

The Sprout Film Festival was founded in 2003 and is programmed and supported by Sprout, a NYC-based non-profit organization, dedicated to bringing innovative programming to people with developmental disabilities. Sprout has been making videos related to the field of developmental disabilities since 1995 and has witnessed the myriad benefits these videos have for this population and the general public.

In 2006 the Sprout Touring Festival was founded, enabling agencies throughout the US and Canada to design their own film festival. Sproutflix, a site offering films from our festival to be purchased was created in 2009. 

Breadmakers will be screened on the 16th March 2013 between 3.30pm and 7pm at Highland High School Auditorium, Medina, Ohio, USA. 

BREADMAKERS IN ZAGREB

Breadmakers (Dir. Yasmin Fedda) will be screened at the 2013 Zagreb International Documentary Film Festival as part of the Scottish Documentary Institute's Retrospective Strand.

It's great to have another international screening of Breadmakers, considering the film was first screened way back in 2007. 

The International Documentary Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia takes place from Sunday 24th February to Sunday 3rd March 2013.

Breadmakers will be screened on Sunday 3rd March 2013 at 4pm.  

Breadmakers in Korea

Breadmakers has been screened at the Jeju Disabled Peoples Human Rights Film Festival in Korea. The screening took place in September 2012. 

Jeju DPI has organized the Disabled Peoples' Human Rights Film Festival every year since 2000 to eradicate social prejudice against persons with disability, to share the culture of the disabled with the general public and to improve the ability of creating films by the disabled through films and movies.

It’s great that Breadmakers continues to be screened worldwide five years after its launch at the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival. 

Director, Yasmin Fedda’s latest documentary, ‘A Tale of Two Syrias’ is presently hitting the Film Festival trail worldwide. 

Screening in Belgrade

Breadmakers has been selected for the 2012 BOSI FEST Belgrade International Film Festival For and By People with Disabilities. The film will be screened on Tuesday 22nd May at 8pm.

BOSI FEST is an international film festival for and about people with disabilities which was organized for the first time in 2010. The festival's primary aim is to draw public attention to the art and possibilities of the participants, at the same time sending the message that disabled people should enjoy the same rights as other citizens.

More details at http://bosifest.rs/en/o-bosi-festu/

Full List of screenings: BREADMAKERS

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, North Carolina, USA (2012)

Special Olympics World Summer Games, Athens, Greece (2011) 

Sprout Film Festival, New York, USA (2011)

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece (2011)

Maldon Film Club, UK (2011)

InArte Meetings, Lisbon, Portugal (2010)

Look & Roll Short Film Festival, Switzerland (2010)

The Supetar Super Documentary Film Festival, Croatia (2010)

The First International Creative Documentary Film Festival in Skopje, Macedonia (2010)

3rd Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India (2010)

Cromarty Film Festival (2009)

The Normal Festival, Prague, Czech Republic (2009)

International Short Film Festival The Way We Live, Munich, Germany (2009)

The Antigonish International Film Festival, Canada (2009)

The Community Development Queensland / International Community Development Association Conference, 'Building Community Centered Economies - Dialogue for Action' (2009)

Gdansk DocFilm Festival , Poland (2009)

DOXITA, USA (2009)

The PICTURE THIS FILM FESTIVAL, Canada (2009)

ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival, Ontario, Canada (2009)

Mustafa Ali’s Gallery, Damascus, Syria (2008)

Kingussie Food on Film Festival, UK (2009)

Heartland Film Society, Pitlochry, UK (2008)

(Audience Award)

Microcinéfest2008, Toronto, Canada (2008)

Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival, California, USA (2008)

The Middle East International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2008)

(The Black Pearl for Best Documentary Short Film)

dokumentArt European Film Festival, Germany (2008)

Planet in Focus International Environmental Festival, Toronto, Canada (2008)

Milano Film Festival, Italy (2008)

Documentary Film Festival "Message to Man", St Petersburg, Russia (2008)

International Documentary Festival on Disability, Athens, Greece (2008)

(Best short documentary prize)

Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2008)

Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival, UK (2008)

Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, USA (2008)

International Women's Film Festival Dortmund / Cologne, Germany (2008)

SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival, USA (2008)

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, USA (2008)

Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, UK (2008)

True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, USA (2008)

London International Disability Film Festival, London, UK (2008)

Quebec International Ethnographic Film Festival, Quebec, Canada (2008)

Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA (2008)

Ofensiva International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland (2007)

Film Festival Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2007)

Docudays - Beirut Documentary Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon (2007)

Documentary Film Festival of IRAN, "Cinema Verite", Tehran, Iran (2007)

Seventh International Festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu, Finland (2007)

BAFTA Scotland nomination in the best short film category (2007)

Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK (2007)

(Short Scottish Documentary Award)

Full Frame Twice

Our short film Breadmakers (Dir. Yasmin Fedda, 11 mins) has been selected for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham, North Carolina, USA for a second time.

Previously selected in 2008, Breadmakers has been invited back to the Full Frame Festival to help celebrate their fifteenth year. One short film has been chosen from each year of their previous fourteen festivals and Breadmakers is representing 2008.

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. The festival takes place between the 12th - 15th April 2012.

More details at: http://www.fullframefest.org

ABOUT A BAND

Okay, it's not Breadmakers, but this is another film (About a Band) which involves Robin Mitchell and Jim Hickey. So here goes . . .

About A Band will be screened at Paisley Arts Centre on Tuesday 13th September 2011 at 2pm.

The Columcille Ceilidh Band has a unique combination of musicians including a number of adults with learning difficulties. The joyous sounds of the ceilidh music are interwoven with personal tales and a true sense of just how important the band has been to the lives of its members. Watch a short clip here.

The screening is part of Glasgow Film Theatre's Great Scots on Tour project. About A band will be screened with the short film The Pedestrian.

To book tickets please access the online box office here.

Breadmakers - Special Olympics update

This is an update to our earlier posting about the 13th Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens.

The screenings of Breadmakers have been moved to the Special Olympics main stadium in Athens. The film will be screened every day at the Festival Tent, at 11.00 and 15.00, from 26th June to 3rd July 2011 except for the screenings on Wednesday 26th June 2011 which will be at 13.00 and on Sunday 3rd July which will be at 17.00.

The invitation from the Special Olympics came about after Breadmakers was screened at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in March 2011.

The Special Olympics draws 7,000 athletes from 180 countries around the world, 3,000 coaches and officials, 25,000 volunteers, 40,000 family members and thousands of spectators.

Breadmakers: Special Olympics

Breadmakers has been selected to be shown as part of a series of cultural events at the 13th Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens between the 25th June and 4th July 2011.

This invitation came about after Breadmakers was screened at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival in March 2011.

The Special Olympics draws 7000 athletes from more than 180 countries around the world, 3000 coaches and officials, 25 000 volunteers, 40 000 family members and thousands of spectators.