Robin Mitchell (Producer)

Robin Mitchell is a Director of Cadies Productions Ltd, and a Partner in Edinburgh's Witchery Walking Tours, a business he created in 1984.

Robin has written one novel, Grave Robbers, and four books, including the top selling guidebook What's Under the Kilt?. He also writes regularly for BBC Radio Scotland's weekly comedy show Watson's Wind Up.

As a writer/producer, Robin has produced four fifty-minute Scottish-based films for the sell-through video market: Adam Lyal's Royal Mile, Georgian Edinburgh, St. Andrews and The Ghosts of Scotland.

In 2005, Robin co-produced (with Jim Hickey) The Rest Is Silence (Dir. Andrew T. Henderson), a 10-minute documentary filmed as part of the Bridging the Gap scheme. He was also writer/director on the 25-minute drama Dreams Are Not Enough.

In 2007, Robin produced his first feature film, Finding Bob McArthur (Dir. Jim Hickey) and produced the short film Breadmakers (Dir. Yasmin Fedda).

In 2008 Robin completed the documentary about Adam Lyal (deceased) standing for the Scottish Parliament called The Scottish Parliament - Following The Ghost Road and worked on the feature horror The Dungeon Moor Killings (Dir. Jim Hickey).

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Jim Hickey (Director)

Jim Hickey was Director of Edinburgh Filmhouse from 1979 to 1993. From 1981 to 1988, he was also Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival. He is a director of the production company Freedonia Films Ltd. His first film as producer, Hunger Artist (1995) was directed by Bernard Rudden from a Kafka short story. He was also a producer on Rudden's first feature Daybreak (2000) for Film Four Lab. In 2003 he produced the feature-length documentary by Jan Leman, John Logie Baird - The Man Who Saw The Future for BBC TV.

Jim was co-producer on Frozen (2004), Juliet McKoen's award-winning feature for which Shirley Henderson won BAFTA Scotland's Best Actress award. Having teamed up with producer Robin Mitchell in 2004, the documentary he directed for STV/Grampian, And So Goodbye, won the Saltire Society Grierson Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

In 2005, Jim and Robin produced the short documentary The Rest Is Silence (Dir. Andrew Henderson) and, in 2007, Breadmakers (Dir. Yasmin Fedda), both for the Scottish Documentary Institute. Jim was a co-producer of the low budget horror feature Sacrificed (2006), directed by Keith Bradley.

Jim has directed two feature films: Finding Bob McArthur (2007), and the horror film The Dungeon Moor Killings (2008).

Andrew Begg (Director of Photography)

Andrew Begg is a Director of Photography and a Lighting Cameraman based in Edinburgh. He works mostly on digiBeta and HD in broadcast documentary and drama projects. He has worked in North America and throughout Europe.

In 2004, Andrew travelled to London and Hollywood to shoot Alien Evolution, a feature length documentary looking at the four Alien films. He was Lighting Cameraman on the award winning And So Goodbye, and Director of Photography on IM, a science fiction drama for Scottish Television.

As Lighting Cameraman, Andrew worked on the 60-minute Channel 4 documentary Mel Gibson—God's Lethal Weapon profiling the actor's controversial religious stance that brought him to make The Passion of The Christ.

In November 2007, Andrew worked on The Shackles of Sherlock, a documentary about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the writing of his notorious character Sherlock Holmes.

Andrew's credits are too many to list, so for further information check out his website on www.lightingcamera.org where his work is catalogued in greater detail.

Bob Edwards (Filmmaking Guru)

Born in 1924, Robert Edwards began making films during the Second World War with his first camera, a present from his father in 1942. His short narrative films as Director include And So Goodbye, Obsession, Letters to a Soldier, Death Can Be Fatal and The Punk Panther.

While teaching in several Scottish schools, Bob worked with a variety of Scottish theatre groups; including Deer Park Youth Theatre, Laurencehill Youth Theatre, On Cue 76, Mercury Theatre Company and Bench Mark Productions. They performed many of the classics, including the works of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw and Chekhov.

Now in his 84th year, Bob maintains a keen interest in the cinema but he also regularly attends the theatre and opera. In 2007 he appeared in his first feature film, Finding Bob McArthur (director: Jim Hickey).

Andrew Henderson (Director)

Andrew is a Writer and Director, and graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2004 following his Masters degree. He works largely in experimental and documentary film.

Andrew has worked as Assistant Director on the award-winning production Dead (winner of the 2003 Royal Television Society's Best Short Film), and his graduation film Stage:4 was nominated for the Scottish Students on Screen No Boundaries award.

Andrew's first professional work is The Rest is Silence, a 10-minute documentary for the Scottish Documentary Institute and Scottish Screen, as part of the Bridging the Gap scheme. The Rest is Silence is his professional debut as Director.

In 2008, Andrew shot several adverts for The Witchery Tours and produced the short science fiction drama Teratogen I.

For more information on Andrew and his work, have a look at Andrew Henderson's MySpace® page.

Yasmin Fedda (Director)

In 2004 Yasmin Fedda spent 2 months filming in a desert monastery in central Syria to produce Milking the Desert. This was made as her graduate film for an MA in Visual Anthropology in Manchester University. It has been shown at several festivals around the world, including the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival and the Al Jazeera Film Festival in Qatar.In 2006, the film won a jury prize at the Moscow International Visual Anthropology Festival.

Since then she has worked on several projects, including filming members of the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria in Miami, USAand a documentary featuring a group of pensioners in Damascus who still receive a colonial pension from the UK.

Recently she teamed up with Robin Mitchell and Jim Hickey to make Breadmakers for the Bridging the Gap scheme. Please check the Breadmakers website for up-to-the-minute news on promotion, festivals and awards

Prior to Beginning work on Breadmakers, Yasmin worked with Nomad Cultural Forum on two projects. She ran a film workshop in Newcastle with young Asylum Seekers. At the same time she was engaged on researching the history and development of the Yemeni community in South Shields.

Robin Bankhead (Web Monkey)

Originally from somewhere between Oban and Ullapool, Robin spent his early years glued to the television. He thanks his parents' unawareness of BBFC classifications for a particularly rich education in the films of David Cronenberg and Paul Verhoeven among others.

Arriving in Edinburgh in 1996, Robin studied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2000. In 1997 he joined Witchery Tours, where those finely-honed language-skills were tasked to jabbering like a skeleton and grunting like a Mad Monk.

Robin is currently I.T. Manager for the Witchery Tours, and also works as a freelance web designer/developer under the name Headbank Digital Design. He is the first to admit that puns aren't his strong point.