Dogwoof has acquired worldwide sales right to The Story of Documentary Film. Dogwoof has in the past distributed several of Mark Cousins’ films, such as My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock and The Story of Film: A New Generation.
This just so happens to be Hopscotch Films and Dogwoof’s sixth partnership, joining titles like My Old School.
We’re delighted to be partnering with Louverture Films in this venture.
Lost For Words, directed by Hannah Papacek Harper, will have its World Premiere at CPH:DOX on 20th March 2025. A co-production with Hopscotch Films and Rétroviseur Productions, this poetic odyssey takes us through the United Kingdom and points a wide-ranging lense on our connection to nature.
It is a scientific film with an artistic heart, that actively invites us to explore and reshape our anthropocentric point of view through an odyssey around the UK where we meet artists, scientists, children, the elderly, and all different people in between.
Lost For Words is an invitation to forge a new relationship with nature and spark dialogue on how to reconnect with it. It provokes questions in both viewer and protagonist. Together we wonder: What is our future? How can we shape it? How do we consider the needs of the non-human world?
We’re delighted to announce the premiere of The Golden Spurtle at CPH:DOC in March 2025! The feature documentary directed by Constantine Costi will be part of the festivals NEXT:WAVE award competition.
The Golden Spurtle is an eccentric and unique look at this annual event in Carrbridge, a quaint village in the Highlands, where residents and visitors gather to find out who is the best porridge-maker in the world. The film is a visually stunning and heartfelt testament to what a large impact a small bowl of porridge can have on people and a community.
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend is Jack Archer's inspirational film about the iconic Scottish director, told through his lifelong best friend and collaborator, Peter Jewell. The film features Douglas and Jewell’s wonderful 8mm home-movies, Douglas’ previously unseen short films and testimonies by the filmmakers Lynne Ramsay and Lenny Abrahamson.
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend is coming to cinema screens across the UK and Ireland. For a preview taste, you can read Peter Bradshaw’s review here.
Thenext screening will take place at Grassmarket Community Picturehouse as a double bill with My Childhood (1972) on October 23rd. Book tickets here.
We’ve very excited for some upcoming premieres for three of our feature docs in the coming weeks.
The hotly anticipated JANEY will have its worldwide premiere at the closing gala of the Glasgow Film Festival on the 10th March.
This documentary shadows Janey as she embarks on her ‘Not Dead Yet’ tour whilst undergoing treatment for cancer. It’s as hilarious and uncompromising as Janey herself, and tells the story of her extraordinary life, with guest appearances from Nicola Sturgeon, Jimmy Carr, and of course Janey’s daughter the comedian Ashley Storrie. It’s only right that the film gets shown first in Janey’s home city before it goes on tour with Janey in the spring.
If you miss it in Glasgow you can see it in the Spring with Janey there in St Andrews, Greenock, Stirling, Edinburgh, Boness, Inverness, Kirkaldy and Cumbernauld
Have a peak at the trailer for JANEY.
LIFE AND OTHER PROBLEMS directed by Max Kestner will open the Copenhagen Documentary Festival on March 12.
It was produced by Hopscotch Films’ John Archer in co-production with Denmark’s Bullitt Film and Sweden’s Plattform Produktion.
It’s an extraordinary documentary that starts off with the story of a two year old giraffe, Marius, being shot at a Danish zoo – then spirals off into everything we know about morality, micro- organisms, fir trees and how much imagination a giant salamander really has. A euphoric and funny trip through the multiple meanings of life.
BILL DOUGLAS MY BEST FRIEND directed by Jack Archer has been selected for the Dublin International Film Festival and will play at the Lighthouse cinema on the 29th February.
The following week it will have its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival on 8th March. The film is the story of the extraordinary friendship between filmmaker Bill Douglas and his lifelong friend and collaborator Peter Jewell, illustrated by some never-before-seen home movies the pair made in the 1960s.
Bringing a fresh take on Scotland’s most famous stories, Loch Ness: They Created a Monster will be making its screen debut on the 3rd of November at Inverness Film Festival.
This affectionate, funny, shocking and wondrous documentary shows monster hunters from all over the world who come together to the remote highlands of Scotland. From WW2 veterans, curious scientists and hairy hippies, they all gather hoping to find the search of the century, evidence of the Loch Ness Monster.
Directed by John Macclaverty
The Inverness Film Festival will be taking place from the 3-9 November
We are excited to announce that our productions My Old School and Dog Days have garnered a number of BAFTA SCOTLAND nominations.
Huge congratulations to director Jono McCleod on his Best Director Factual nomination for My Old School, and to the entire team at Hopscotch for the Best Feature Film nomination.
Conor McCarron is nominated in the Actor Television category, for his jaw droppingly authentic portrayal of homeless busker Zoso in Dog Days, the first production from Channel X Hopscotch.
Both productions are available to watch on BBC I-Player for a few months only.
“BEAST” documentary brings two of Europe’s top cutting-edge production houses - Glasgow-based Hopscotsh Films, and Ruben Östlund’s Plattform Produktion, have signed up for Kestner’s playful journey of self-discovery and life questioning, featuring among other things…a dead giraffe.
With the starting point of the doc focusing on the death of Marius the giraffe in Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 which caused outrage around the world, it explores our relationships with animals and humans’ place in the ecosystem, combining a scientific vantage point with existential thoughts.
The film co-financed by TV2 Denmark, with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond, has just started production. The preliminary release date is set for the spring 2024.
For more information check out this article by Nordisk Film & TV Fond
After a successful run in 70 cinemas across the UK MY OLD SCHOOL screens on the BBC this Christmas
BBC Scotland on Friday 23rd December at 9pm.
BBC2 on Friday 30th December at 9pm.
We’re all delighted to be nominated for this prestigious Arts award. Congratulations to director Mark Cousins and editor Timo Langer. If you want to see this brilliant documentary STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION is on Netflix in the UK
We are thrilled to read Hollywood Reporter’s wonderful review of Story of Film: A New Generation, written by Sheri Linden.
“Describing what we see on the screen, he imbues it with new meaning. If, like me, you have a never-ending list of movies to watch, you’re more than likely to add a few titles to it after watching Cousins’ documentary.”
Full Article:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-cannes-2021-1234976931/
We are delighted to read the praise The Story of Film: A New Generation got by the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw:
“What is invigorating about The Story of Film is that each new clip, each new comment, is an exercise in back to basics, an exercise in looking, and looking again and looking harder”
Full Guardian Article:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/06/the-story-of-film-a-new-generation-review-invigorating-study-of-21st-century-cinema
