Breadmakers
2007, 11 mins
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city .The Garvald Bakery is part of a centre inspired by the ideas of Rudolph Steiner where the workers realise their potential for self-discovery and creativity in a social environment.
Selected Press
The Guardian - Chartiable bakery film rises to the occasion, 2008
The Guardian – On a roll - A documentary featuring a bakery run by people with learning difficulties is making a mark on the film festival and awards circuit, 2008
Director, sound recordist & editor – Yasmin Fedda / Producers – Jim Hickey & Robin Mitchell / Executive Producer – Noe Mendelle / Executive Producer for Scottish Screen – Becky Lloyd / Director of Cinematography – Veera Lehto / Sound design – Marcelo de Olivera / Co-ordinator – Sonja Henrici
Bafta nominated, and screened at over 60 international festivals including Sundance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute
Prizes:
Special Jury Mention, Gdansk DocFilm Festival, 2009
Winner, Black Pearl Award, Best Short Film, Middle East
International FF, 2008
Winner, Palme Dewar Award, Heartland Film Festival, 2008
Winner, Best Short Documentary, Emotions Film Festival 2008
Winner, Short Scottish Documentary Award, Edinburgh Film Festival, 2007
Bafta Scotland nomination, Best Short Film, 2007
A Cadies Productions film for the Scottish Documentary Institute Bridging the Gap initiative.
Screenings:
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)