Taking Stock
Taking Stock is a new short film by Duncan Cowles, commissioned as part of Channel 4’s Random Acts TV Series. Completed in October 2017, the film was broadcast on Channel 4, December 1st 2017 in Random Acts Series 4, Episode 4.
SYNOPSIS
Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, mundane and funny side of being trapped inside your own head as an out of work, self-employed freelancer.
PRESS
Sight & Sound Magazine
The Guardian
It’s Nice That
The Skinny
Short of the Week
Directors Notes Interview
Glasgow Film Interview
Booooooom TV
Go Short’s Blog: Short Shot
Short of the Week – Best of the Month (Jan 2018)
KinoScope Short Film Programmers ‘Top 5 Shorts of 2018’
AWARDS
Winner – Royal Television Society Scotland Award 2018
Winner – Audience Award, Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2018
Winner – Audience Award, Szczecin European Film Festival 2018
Winner – Frēsh18 Carbon Award
Nominated – IPSE Freelance Project of the Year 2019
OFFICIAL SELECTION
02/2018 – Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (USA)
03/2018 – Glasgow Short Film Festival (UK)
04/2018 – Dresden International Short Film Festival (Germany)
04/2018 – Flatpack Film Festival (UK)
04/2018 – Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine)
04/2018 – Cellu l’art Short Film Festival (Germany)
05/2018 – Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium)
06/2018 – VIS Vienna Shorts Festival (Austria)
06/2018 – ‘A Wall is a Screen’ @ 34th Hamburg Short Film Festival (Germany)
06/2018 – XPONorth (UK)
06/2018 – Shortest Nights, Short Sighted Cinema (UK)
09/2018 – Encounters Short Film Festival (UK)
10/2018 – BFI London Film Festival (UK)
10/2018 – Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden)
10/2018 – DokumentART European Film Festival (Germany)
10/2018 – Szczecin European Film Festival (Poland)
11/2018 – Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland)
11/2018 – Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival (Germany)
11/2018 – Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK)
01/2019 – London Short Film Festival (UK)
01/2019 – British Shorts Berlin (Germany)
CONTACT
info@duncancowles.com