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.

A Cadies Productions film for the Scottish Documentary Institute Bridging the Gap initiative.

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

Breadmakers Blog

Available in

Beta SP Pal, NTSC, Mini DV, DVD

Language

English and Sign Along

Nominations

Best short film, Bafta Scotland, 2007

Festival Screenings

Edinburgh International Film Festival, Awards: Short Scottish Documentary Award (UK, 2007), Seventh Annual International Festival of Visual Culture (Finland, 2007), Documentary Film Festival of IRAN, “cinema verite” (Iran, 2007), Docudays – Beirut Documentary Film Festival (Lebanon, 2007),Film Festival Dokumenter
(Indonesia, 2007), Ofensiva International Film Festival (Poland, 2007), Sundance Film Festival (U S A, 2008), Quebec International Ethnographic Film Festival (Canada, 2008), 8th London International Disability Film Festival (UK, 2008), True/False Film Festival (U S A, 2008), Glasgow Film Festival (UK, 2008), Iowa Documentary Film festival (U S A, 2008),  Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (U S A, 2008), International Women’s Film Festival (Germany, 2008), The Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival (UK, 2008), Krakow Film Festival (Poland, 2008), Silverdocs Film Festival (U S A, 2008), 2nd International Festival Documentary & Disability, Awards: Best Short documentary (Greece, 2008), Message to Man Film Festival (Russian Federation, 2008), Microcinéfest2008 (Canada, 2008), Milan Film Festival (Italy, 2008), Heartland Film Society,
Awards: “Palm Dewar”, (UK, 2008), 17. dokument ART (Germany, 2008), Middle East International Film Festival, Awards: The Black Pearl for best documentary short (United Arab Emirates, 2008), ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival (Canada, 2009), Kingussie Food on Film Festival (2009, UK), PICTURE THIS FILM FESTIVAL (Canada, 2009), Gdansk DocFilm Festival (Poland, 2009), The Way We Live! (Germany, 2009),
The Normal Festival (Czech Republic, 2009), Cromarty Film Festival (UK, 2009), 3rd Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (India, 2010), First International Creative Documentary Film Festival in Skopje, Macedonia (Macedonia, 2010), Supetar Super Documentary Film Festival, island of Brac, Croatia
(Croatia, 2010), Kerala International Film Festival (India, 2010), Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival (Greece, 2011)

Other screenings

BBC Film Network
watch the film here

Star and Shadow Cinema
Newcastle, United Kingdom
December 2007

Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
Theatrical
Dumfries, United Kingdom
May 2010

Society for Disability Studies annual conference
Philadelphia, U S A
June 2010

De Balie Cinema
Theatrical, 2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Broadcasts

Special Broadcasting Services Corporation (Australia),
QOOB TV in Italy, MTV Italy, Teachers TV

Touring

doxita : Part of ‘All in a day’s work’ travelling programme, 2009

Production Company

Cadies Productions Ltd.
84 West Bow
Victoria Street
Edinburgh
EH12HH
00 44 (0) 131 225 6745 (tel)
00 44 (0) 131 220 2086 (fax)
Robin Mitchell: robin@cadies.co.uk (producer)

Distribution

Network Ireland Television
23 South Frederick St
Dublin 2
Ireland
T: + 353 1 679 7309
F: + 353 1 670 8493
Email: info@network-irl-tv.com

Funded and supported by

Scottish Documentary Institute
eca 74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh EH3 9DF
Scotland, UK
tel +44 131 221 6116
scottishdocumentaryinstitute@eca.ac.uk
www.docscene.org/