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by james macgregor | 6th April 2001 | contact: james@netribution.co.uk

Baby Lazarus Wins Scottish Students On Screen

Dundee Contemporary Arts
23 - 24 March 2001

A documentary film shot in the US by a philosophy and psychology student from Edinburgh University drew universal acclaim and took two awards at Scottish Students On Screen 2001. Joseph Bell’s Baby Lazarus, exploring how technology is used to support premature babies, narrated by Baby Lazarus himself, won the Factual Category Award and also gained the Digital Animations Group Award for Special Achievement.

Joseph Bell shot the film when on an exchange visit to the US as part of his philosophy course. His host university had a film department and while he was there, Joseph was determined to make use of its facilities and enrolled for a documentary film course.

A retired doctor he met in the sauna helped him gain entry to the Intensive Care Department by introducing him to a doctor who was interested in films. Hospital doors began to open for the filmmaker.The result, Baby Lazarus, drew admiration from those who have seen it and showed the director has undoubted talent and a promising future in filmmaking.

In a Northern Lights interview by Morna Finlay, the director explains why he chose to study philosophy rather than media production and the full story behind Baby Lazarus making his first screen appearance.

The other worthy winners of Scottish Students on Screen 2001 were:

Graham Howie - Upstairs
Winner of the Drama Category

Mark Holmes - The Tokugawa Era
Winner of the Animation Category

Lorn Pearson - The Truth is What You Make It
Winner of the Other Category

Octavius Murray - R G Ball - Over the Rainbow - Discopier
Winner of the No Boundaries Category

Elizabeth Harris - Funny How it Goes
Lee Lighting and Panavision Scotland Award for Best Cinematography

Scottish Students on Screen is now seeking to recruit a new full-time coordinator, needed from September 1 to May 31 next year.

Location: Scottish Screen's Glasgow office;

Remuneration: £9 000;
Requirements: you should be a student now (graduating 2001 or able to take a sabbatical) with exceptional organisational and communication skills and a full, clean driving license.
If that could be you, please register your interest now by contacting Recruitment at Scottish Screen either by email or in writing at Second Floor, 249 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 4QE.

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