Finlay Pretsell
Directors Name: Finlay Pretsell
Country of Origin: UK
Biography:
Finlay started working for the Scottish Documentary Institute in 2005, during which time he has acted as Production Assistant and Production Manager on a number of short films, including Butterfly and The Truth About Tooth both of which were nominated for a Scottish BAFTA in 2006 & 2007 respectively and played in festivals around the world.
Following a successful career competing worldwide for the Scottish Cycling Team, Finlay has gone on to co-produce and co-direct Standing Start, with Adrian McDowall an experimental documentary about Scottish Olympic cyclist Craig MacLean, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Best Newcomer award. The film has also played in festivals around the world.
He also collaborated with Adrian McDowall with whom he has the company Imagine Pictures with on 3 short sport documentaries entitled The Art in Sport commissioned by a local council in collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute. One of these 3 films entitled Ma Bar completed in 2008 won the BAFTA Scotland short film award, it premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival, and had it's international premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
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