We Are Northern Lights (2013)

Directed by

David Graham Scott, Nick Higgins

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

12A

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Hundreds of Scottish people contributed video footage of their daily lives in 2012. This film stitches that footage together into a portrait of the country and its people.

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What happens

We Are Northern Lights is a 2013 Scottish documentary film about the Scottish people, which was screened around Scotland. According to the BBC it was created using footage taken by over 100 members of the Scottish public during 2012. It is described as Scotland's first ever crowd sourced film project. It was shown at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2013 before being distributed to 5 Scottish Cineworld cinemas. It was also chosen as the opening film for the 2013 Glasgow Southside Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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