Nick Higgins Trailers
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Nick Higgins is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, academic and curator.
He is the founder and programme leader of the Masters Filmmaking degree at the University of the West of Scotland where he is the Director of the Creative Media Academy and Professor in Screen Practice.
His most recent documentary production, Colours of the Alphabet was translated into 30 languages and digitally released across Africa on the Afridocs platform. Previous productions include the BAFTA Scotland nominated mass participation documentary, We Are Northern Lights and the multi-director, The New Ten Commandments with contributions from Tilda Swinton, Marc Cousins and Irvine Welsh.
His films have been broadcast on the BBC, STV, Al Jazeera, SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland), ZDF (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), VPRO (the Netherlands) and have picked up awards at film festivals internationally. Over the last couple of years Nick has also produced several interactive documentaries on the uws.io web platform and in 2017 he directed and produced his first 360 virtual reality documentary. Since then Nick has co-curated the Virtual Reality programme at the Glasgow Short Film Festival (2017 & 2019) and was the executive producer on the KristallPalast interactive VR experience produced with the award-winning ISO digital design studio.
Prior to joining UWS, Professor Higgins was a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh where founded the Trans-disciplinary Documentary Film Phd programme and the MA in Media, Culture and Practice. He is a regular contributor to BAFTA Scotland and Royal Television Society film and television juries and has previously been a member of the documentary jury at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He sits on the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities executive and the Independent Producers Scotland board.
Most Popular Nick Higgins Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
01 January 2021
When three siblings are reunited at their mother's vigil, Judy confronts her brothers' expectations.
18 August 2024
Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.
07 April 2013
A tribute to the distinguished reign of one of Britain's longest-serving Olympians.
15 October 2022
A young woman who struggles to sleep, decides to go outside in a desperate attempt to tire herself out.
11 April 2019
A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her.
30 April 2023
A young struggling, directionless salesman stumbles across a new-fangled religious movement while desperately trying to make a sale.
02 April 2023
"Straight Girl" paints a colourful, three-dimensional portrait of Leeds-based electronic musician Remy Enceladus, also known as Straight Girl.
21 February 2016
It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language.
02 January 2008
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.
14 November 2021
A dark comedy short film. As the days and nights in lockdown start to merge, Gerry’s paranoia increases as a 5g tower is due to be switched on in his local area.
24 April 2024
Two employees at a library navigate through a mundane shift until one of them begins to act out.
16 November 2025
At his father’s funeral, a young man wrestles with his impulses with the arrival of a last minute replacement organist.
21 August 2020
After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
16 February 2013
How do you capture the essence of Scotland in just one film? You invite people from all across the country to submit their unique visions in a mass participation project and combine them into a poignant, thrilling, moving, and often very funny impressionistic self portrait of contemporary Scotland.
10 September 2020
House of Light is an intimate portrait of one family’s daily life when forced to remain together in their apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the Covid-19 health crisis.
08 March 2019
Facing a problematic creative block, Harrison embarks on a journey to Glen Coe with his best friend in order to reignite his artistic imagination.
06 December 2024
The exploration of a long distance relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic using an assemblage of archival footage.
20 August 2023
Having recently faced the loss of her sister, Norah MacRae - the longest serving Post Office worker in Scottish history - begins to reflect on what’s to come in her remaining years from the wee shop attached to her house.
01 January 2006
Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city.
13 August 2021
Veronique is a social realist drama picturing a day in the life of a teenage girl and her mentally ill mother.
01 January 2004
Hidden Gifts is a creative documentary that explores the mystery of art and mental illness. It tells the story of Angus MacPhee, “the quiet big man” from South Uist, who wove clothes from grass.
10 August 2004
Women in Black keep vigil for peace all over the world. In this film, three Edinburgh women explain why they join other women on Princes Street every Saturday to bear silent witness against the futility of war.
13 December 2024
All Patsy Miller has ever wanted is the quiet life - but from a turbulent childhood to getting squandered out of her rights by governments and the rich elite, she has been hindered at every point.
