The New Ten Commandments
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Genre Documentary Initial release June 28, 2008 Music director Jim Sutherland | 7.8/10 IMDb Duration Running time 1h 45m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directors Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Tilda Swinton, Alice Nelson Producers Nick Higgins, Noe Mendelle Cinematography Minttu Mantynen, George Geddes, Scott Ward, Ian Dodds Similar movies Irvine Welsh directed The New Ten Commandments and appears in The Acid House | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The New Ten Commandments is a feature-length documentary film which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008. The film vividly describes the biblical tale of Moses freeing Hebrew slaves. This documentary film is from a Scottish perception.
Contents
The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott and Anna Jones.
The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments
- The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott
- The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins
- The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami
- The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey
- The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan
- The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins
- The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon
- The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones
- The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson
- The Right to freedom of thought - Directors, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton
The film was scheduled for its first television broadcast as The New 10 Commandments in Scotland on BBC Two Scotland in December 2008.
References
The New Ten Commandments WikipediaThe New Ten Commandments IMDb