Film Programme
TOMORROW'S FAIRGROUND
documentary
United Kingdom, 2009, 9'50
Director: Peter Gerard
Producer: Noemic Mendelle & Sonja Henrici
Director of photography: Leo Bruge & Grant McPhee
Editor: Andy Green
Synopsis: A retiring showman tries to pass on traditions of a travelling fun-fair to his daughter. Will Victor ever let go of family business?
Director: Peter Gerard
Peter Gerard's first documentary, "Out of Breath" - made while he was a teenager in Missouri - won the SOFA Film Festival Audience Award. He then founded the Bargain Basement Film Festival, a celebration of ultra-low-budget films. A multimedia visionary, he has made numerous short films, designed award-winning websites, and exhibited his photography in the US and Britain. Peter migrated to Scotland in 2000 and established Accidental Media to produce award-winning documentaries, fiction films, music videos and interactive media.
Peter's recent cutting-edge graffiti-history documentary "Just to Get a Rep" received acclaim at festivals worldwide and is now being distributed internationally on DVD and broadcast. In the last year, Peter produced and edited "Fistful of Roses", which was pitched at Documentary in Europe and won a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award, and "The Shutdown", which won Best Short Doc at San Francisco International Film Festival and won both the Jury and Audience Awards at the Jim Poole Awards in Edinburgh. Simultaneously he directed "Tomorrow's Fairground", a short documentary commission for Scottish Documentary Institute, Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland (broadcast in December 2009).
Heavily involved in the international documentary community, Peter is the webmaster for the online professional documentary community - The D-Word (www.d-word.com).
"Motion/Static", his latest short as a director, premiered at IDFA in 2009. Peter is currently finishing "Eat Songs", an epic feature documentary about two filmmakers entangled in an African musician's incredible dream.
Peter's recent cutting-edge graffiti-history documentary "Just to Get a Rep" received acclaim at festivals worldwide and is now being distributed internationally on DVD and broadcast. In the last year, Peter produced and edited "Fistful of Roses", which was pitched at Documentary in Europe and won a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award, and "The Shutdown", which won Best Short Doc at San Francisco International Film Festival and won both the Jury and Audience Awards at the Jim Poole Awards in Edinburgh. Simultaneously he directed "Tomorrow's Fairground", a short documentary commission for Scottish Documentary Institute, Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland (broadcast in December 2009).
Heavily involved in the international documentary community, Peter is the webmaster for the online professional documentary community - The D-Word (www.d-word.com).
"Motion/Static", his latest short as a director, premiered at IDFA in 2009. Peter is currently finishing "Eat Songs", an epic feature documentary about two filmmakers entangled in an African musician's incredible dream.