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Morag McKinnon

Directing

Known For

The Innocence Project
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Drama series which follows a group of law students as they investigate possible miscarriages of justice under the guidance of an inspirational professor.

The Innocence Project

2006
Buried
8.0

Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his family from a violent criminal. Critically well-received, the programme won the Best Drama Series category at the British Academy Television Awards in 2004.

Buried

2003
Cinema16: British Short Films
5.2

This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and present. It includes films from Britain's most exciting new talent alongside early shorts from it's most successful filmmakers' amongst them Chris Nolan (Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins), Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien), Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) and Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). 01 About a Girl - Brian Percival 02 Boy & Bicycle - Ridley Scott 03 Dear Phone - Peter Greenaway 04 Doodlebug - Christopher Nolan 05 Eight - Stephen Daldry 06 Gasman - Lynne Ramsay 07 Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith 08 Home - Morag McKinnon 09 Joyride - Jim Gillespie 10 Inside Out - Tom & Charles Guard 11 Je TÂ’aime John Wayne - Toby Macdonald 12 The Sheep Thief - Asif Kapadia 13 The Short & Curlies - Mike Leigh 14 Telling Lies - Simon Ellis 15 UK Images - Martin Parr 16 WhoÂ’s My Favourite Girl? - Adrian J. McDowall

Cinema16: British Short Films

2003
Donkeys
6.0

Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.

Donkeys

2010
Fantoosh
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A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he's eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he's hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language.

Fantoosh

1996
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A film of the award winning live theatre production The List. A woman struggles to adjust to rural life with a young family in Quebec. Increasingly isolated, she keeps life in order through obsessive list making. As her marriage struggles she befriends Caroline. When Caroline requests a favour she adds it to her list. The difference between remembering to do it, and neglecting to take it seriously, becomes the difference between life and death. Produced in association with Screen Academy Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University.

The List Film

2014
Home
6.9

A local council worker inspects three homes.

Home

1998
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An insight into what goes on in the ladies loos of a nightclub as seen by the mirror on the wall.

Mirror, Mirror

1996
I Am Breathing
7.0

Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?

I Am Breathing

2013
Birthday
8.0

It's a special day for Annie, but things don't go to plan and a nasty incident with the pet budgie forces her to run away from home.

Birthday

2000
When Fish Begin to Crawl
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Co-directed by filmmaker Morag McKinnon and composer Jim Sutherland, is a thought-provoking meditation on the climate crisis and humanity's relationship with nature. With a focus on Scotland's Flow Country, it blends art and science to reflect on present-day eco-emergencies within the context of geological deep time.

When Fish Begin to Crawl

2023
All Up There
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Coming-of-age tale detailing the difficulties of growing up with a chronic illness.

All Up There

2023
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6.5

Fantastic film about a graphic designer.

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1995
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A man is shown videos of his life in the afterlife

The End

1992
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Comfort and discomfort: a couple having sex on a train.

Relax

1993
Brotherly Love
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Two brothers travel from Edinburgh to the Scottish Highlands in an attempt to force one of them to kick his drug habit.

Brotherly Love

1994
Buzz
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A man does battle with a house fly.

Buzz

1993
Burke and Hare: The Musical
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A musical take on the story of the infamous Edinburgh graverobbers.

Burke and Hare: The Musical

1997
The Bottle Imp
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Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural chiller is updated to present day Edinburgh.

The Bottle Imp

1992
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On the last visit to her grandmother’s house before she moved in to a retirement home, McKinnon realised that nothing would ever be the same again. McKinnon looked at everything with the eyes that knew she was looking upon the things of her past, of her childhood for the last time. Never the same (2019) is a document of that visit.

Never the same

2019