Amber Films
Online Film Clips
The Bamboozler 2007
Documentary about love, death and percussion in Newcastle upon Tyne; about Bruce Arthur, the Rumba Palace and Bruce's last sound sculpture
Shooting Magpies 2005
Feature film, shot on DV, post-industrial East Durham, family & community, impact of heroin, harness racing
Like Father 2001
Feature film, post-industrial East Durham, three generations of male experience in the context of post-pit closure regeneration
The Scar 1997
Feature film, post-industrial East Durham, experience of women, active in the 84 Miners Strike, post-pit closure
Eden Valley 1994
Feature film, harness racing (trotting) community in County Durham, father and son relationships
Letters to Katja 1994
Documentary, personal exploration by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen of her Finnish roots and her relationship with her daughter
The Writing in the Sand 1991
Documentary constructed entirely from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photographs of beach life in the North East of England
In Fading Light 1989
Feature film set in the North Shields fishing industry for which Amber bought and ran the anchor seine boat Sally
Glassworks 1977
Documentary exploring an industrial glassblowing works in Lemington, Newcastle upon Tyne
Bowes Line 1975
Documentary about the rope-worked railway that ran to Jarrow Staithes on the River Tyne
Launch 1973
Documentary about the launch of an oil tanker at the end of a terraced street in Wallsend on the River Tyne