Watch Trailer For Bill Douglas My Best Friend ‘Scotland’s Finest Filmmaker’

Hopscotch Films have announced and released the official Trailer for Bill Douglas My Best Friend. Jack Archer‘s documentary all about ‘Scotland’s finest filmmaker’, Bill Douglas.

We’ll be honest, Bill Douglas will probably be unknown to many. When you have the likes of renowned filmmakers Lynne Ramsay, Lenny Abrahamson, Satajit Ray and Yuliya Solntseva you know he was influential. His career was short and Jacker Archer’s film will be the prefect way to learn about him.

This Doc tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell.

Bill Douglas was Scotland’s finest director, celebrated by other great filmmakers including Lynne Ramsay, Lenny Abrahamson, Satajit Ray and Yuliya Solntseva. In his short career he made four films, an autobiographical trilogy My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home about his appalling childhood and Comrades, an epic about a momentous moment in English history. Every shot in these films is an art work and every sequence a poem.

Bill’s life was transformed when he was on National Service in the Egyptian desert and met the man who would become his lifelong friend, Peter Jewell. The two men had very different backgrounds but they formed a unique bond that channelled a tremendous creative energy.

In this film Peter reminisces about the life he shared with Bill in their tiny Soho flat filled with cinema memorabilia. Their love of the movies led them to start experimenting with an 8mm camera. Peter’s memories and musings about the legacy Bill left behind are illustrated with these never-before-seen short films.

Bill Douglas My Best Friend will be released in UK cinemas from 27th September.