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New Ten Commandments documentary is hot ticket ARTS: FESTIVAL ARTS: FESTIVAL Film examining human rights from Scots perspective sells out shows
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The Sunday Herald
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June 22, 2008
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A CHALLENGING and unconventional documentary that took its
current form because of fi rst minister Alex Salmond, features 11
directors including a Turner Prize winner, an Oscar-winning actress
and one of the country's best-known writers, and is not even fi
nished yet, is becoming one of the hottest tickets at this year's
Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The New Ten Commandments comprises 10 short documentaries united
by a single theme - human rights in Scotland - and despite finishing
touches still being applied in a studio in Glasgow, it has already
sold out its festival screenings.
For the project, some of Scotland's most prominent cultural fi
gures were persuaded to move away from ...