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Murray Martin Award
from: Amber Films
Murray Martin - The Album
from: About Us
Murray Martin - The Album
from: Amber Films
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The Murray Martin Award
from: 13th February 2009
After Amber founder member and key visionary Murray Martin died in 2007, many people suggested that the group should set up an award in his memory, perhaps giving a young filmmaker an opportunity. It
Nothern Lights Film Festival
from: 11th March 2010
Northern Lights Film Festival runs from Saturday 20 to Saturday 27 March with a great programme of screenings at Side Cinema, the Tyneside, the Gala in Durham and Star & Shadow. The Side Cinema
Films and Photography (10 results)
Murray Martin - The Album
from: Photography
Murray Martin was a founder member of Amber and the prime architect of the vision that continues to inform its work. These images have been selected from the many photographs that were collected and
The Pursuit of Happiness (2008)
from: Amber Films
Starting out as a film about the Coulsons, a horsey family in Craghead, County Durham, when Amber founder member and key visionary Murray Martin died in 2007, it became a documentary about a filmmaker who became part of the world he documented.
Horse Nation by Dean Chapman
from: Side Gallery
HORSE NATION
Dean Chapman
*Saturday 21 June to Saturday 23
Seacoalers
from: Photography
The community of seacoal gatherers at Lynemouth, Northumberland, documented in the early 1980s, by the Ashington photographer (cousin to one of the seacoalers), who brought them to Amber after the making of the film Seacoal.
Launch (1973)
from: Amber Films
The classic shot of the launch of an oil tanker at the bottom of a street has ensured the popularity of this beautiful documentary, opening up on the epic experience of shipbuilding communities. See a video clip
specialised in hand glassmaking for industrial markets, from fine capillary tubes to large carboys.
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Available as DVD
Maybe (1969)
from: Amber Films
A gentle documentary about the Shields Ferry on the River Tyne and its engine man, initiated while studying film at Regents Street Polytechnic by members of the group that was to become Amber.
The Filleting Machine (1981)
from: Amber Films
Rooted in his own experience of the North Shields fish quay and set on the Ridges estate, a powerful film drama written by Tom Hadaway.
Quayside (1979)
from: Amber Films
A black & white documentary film that formed part of Amber's campaign to preserve the architectural heritage of Newcastle's Quayside, then threatened by the city's plans for redevelopment.
Mai (1974)
from: Amber Films
The obsessive collector Mai Finglass was the landlady of Amber members Murray Martin and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, when they were studying film at Regents Street Polytechnic. This beautiful documentary was the completion of a project they initiated as students.
Robert Doisneau
from: Side Gallery
One of documentary photography’s greats, Doisneau’s life’s work was a narrative of Paris. “In Paris, I know the town. I always need a lot of time, I have to be very familiar with a place, to