Name Ian Cottage Role Film director | Movies Small Gestures | |
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Ian Cottage is a critically acclaimed British film director and writer.
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Small Gestures featuring the filmmaker Derek Jarman was premiered at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival where it received a special Jury mention. Blue Scars (commissioned for the Southbank Centre) was toured with British Film Institute's Poem Films in the UK and India with work by Tony Harrison and Maya Deren.
His short film Mangetout was made for the BBC 10 x 10 New Directors scheme and received critic’s choice in The Times, Sunday Times and Express newspapers. He was commissioned for the British Film Institute’s New Directors scheme with the short Sleep starring Danny John Jules and Josephine Butler. Sleep was described by Ewen Bremner on Channel 4’s Shooting Gallery as “a big, searching serious film, which in my opinion breaks out of the genre and shows us where the new filmmakers are heading”. Other short films for UK national television include Informer and Igloo (commissioned as part of the Arts Council/BBC2’s Sound on Film strand).
Cottage has made two films in Estonia, the short The Shoe Tree (winner of the Northern Lights Film Challenge) and Stranger Than Kindness (screened as part of Britspotting and shown on Estonian television ETV). He also wrote and directed Keel which premiered at the 2009 Edinburgh Film Festival and featured on the UK Film Council’s Best Short Films DVD. In 2013, he directed Spin for Channel 4 Random Acts strand, premiering at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
At present, Cottage is in post-production on the psychological thriller Bosc, shot in Northern Spain.
Cottage ran the Northern Production Fund for Northern Arts from 1999-2001. During his time at NPF, the agency supported award-winning films including Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers, Sarah Gavron’s This Little Life (BBC Dennis Potter Award) and Duane Hopkin’s Love Me Or Leave Me Alone. He devised and exec-produced 5 half-hour dramas for ITV Tyne Tees Hothouse strand (two winning regional Royal Television Society awards) and launched Northern Film and Media’s successful short film strand Stingers.
Roger Redgate provided the score for a number of Cottage’s early short films including Small Gestures, Mangetout and Igloo.