Short Films
We are passionate about creating independent cinema. Listed below are all of the award winning short films that we have produced and worked on thus far in our humble journey.
Wonder Lands (2024) by Roisin McLinden
Wonder Lands is a participatory art project fusing cycling and theatre making. At its core sits the question: how can we cultivate a state of wonder from which to make new work?
Through exploring of the Forth and Clyde Canal by bike, participants have discovered wonder within their local landscape, using their connection to nature as inspiration to generate ideas. Wonder Lands is the outcome of Roisin McLinden’s Community Artist Residency with National Theatre Scotland as part of The Neighbourhood Project and SiMY Community Development.
A short documentary film produced and directed by Humble Film productions illustrating the creative process of Wonder Lands was screened at Pinkston Watersports 10th Birthday Gala before being available to the public on the National Theatre Scotland website.
You can watch the film at the Youtube link below:
Life’s a Beach (2024) by Neil Boyle
Written and Directed by Neil Boyle as part of the 48 Hour Film Challenge, this is an endearing drama follwing an estranged Scottish family, who partake in a holiday to the seaside town where they used to live.
This short quickly reached international acclaim, being screened at the Filmapalooza 2024 and winning the audience award, From this, it was then screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Fesitval Short Film Corner 2024 with support from Screen Scotland.
The film is available to watch online for free at the Youtube link below:
Beatha Fodha (Life Below) (2024) by Meray Diner
We travelled to Skye in 2022 with documentary filmmaker Meray Diner to create a poetic account of the remarkable life of underwater photographer Gill Williams.
The film has gone on to achieve great success, being screened at Minikino Film Week 2023, Women Over 50 Film Festival 2023, British Shorts Berlin 2024, BCT 2024 and most recently Meath Film Festival 2024.
You can watch the trailer for the short documentary below:
Etwas Nutzlos (2023) by Eric J. Liddle
Directed by Eric J. Liddle and produced by Humble Film Productions, Etwas Nutzlos is an experimental short created purely out of still images, examining a failing relationship in the lonely yet familiar urban jungle of Berlin.
The short is about to start its festival run and is another example of uncompromising surrealism that is sure to spark debate with every audience that sees it. So far it has been selected by the INEFF Experimental Fiction Festival 2023 in Manchester and Experimental Brasil 2023 in Rio De Janeiro, as well as being screeed at Shortscape 2023 and The HB Film Festival 2023. This year it has been screened as part of London Experimental 2024, Sound and Vision 2024 and Bizarrya Porto 2024.
Read what the UK Film Review had to say about our latest short film.
1815 (2022) by Neil Boyle
Directed by Neil Boyle and produced by Toria Cassidy and Humble Film Productions, 1815 follows the journey of two broken men as they navigate the repercussions of the Scottish Highland Clearances.
The film was produced independently as we managed to self-raise £30,000 of funding for the production. You can find out more about this successful campaign by visiting the funding page.
The short enjoyed a hugely succesful festival circuit run, having been selected for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023, Idyllwild Cinema Fest 2023, Venezia Shorts 2022, Berlin International Art Film Festival 2022, New York: Lift Off Festival 2022 and The HB Film Festival.
At this years Scottish Short Film Festival, 1815 picked up 7 award wins, including Best Cinematography for our own Kasparas Vidunas.
The film is now available to stream online for free on the STV Player.
Sunshine Periphery (2021) by Eric J. Liddle
Sunshine Periphery is a short film written and directed by Humble founder Eric J. Liddle and edited by Humble founder Kasparas Viduñas.
This is an ambitious project that saw a Scottish-German-US-American co-production independently (crowd)-fund approximately $20,000 to enable us to head to the States to shoot our surrealist neo-noir. You can find more information about their successful campaign by visiting the funding page.
The team, consisting of experienced filmmakers working within the industry in Berlin and Munich, alongside the Humble team in Glasgow, worked together to an arthouse short in the vein of Maya Deren and Luis Buñuel shot in a location synonymous with surrealism: California.
Sponsors for this project included Tilta, Zeiss Cinematography, and ARRI. You can read about DOP Julian Schmidt's experience shooting the film on the Zeiss Lenspire Blog.
BILLYNOTREALLY (2021) by Kasparas Vidunas & Eric J. Liddle
BILLYNOTREALLY is a micro-short film written, directed and edited by Humble directors Kasparas Vidunas & Eric J Liddle. The short film was created for a BIFA micro competition in which filmmakers were asked to make a 3 minute horror short in lockdown. Creating a film completely out of still images, Kaspar and Eric used a friend and a typewriter to make an atmospheric drama that delves into the psyche of a lonely, tormented man.
