Amber Films
The Catalogue
Making films since 1968, there are 40 or so documentaries, dramas and feature films...
Even though the group insists there is no dominant creative individual there is evidently a real film genius at work here. The Times
Available on DVD from the Amber-Online shop or from Side Gallery, we have the new films, The Bamboozler and Shooting Magpies, as well as classics In Fading Light and The Tyne Documentaries, which brings together Launch, Bowes Line, Last Shift and Glassworks and Seacoal. We will be making more of the back catalogue available on DVD, so keep checking the website. Meanwhile, many are still available on VHS.
AMBER WEEKEND SCHOOL
Following the huge success of last year's event, we're organising another intensive weekend blast of screenings, workshops and practical sessions looking at Amber's approach to filmmaking. A snip at £90. More details will be on our website in the near future
The Pursuit of Happiness (2008)
Amber Films (Producer)
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.
The Bamboozler (2007)
Amber Films (Producer)
A documentary about love, death and percussion; about Tyneside percussionist Bruce Arthur, the creation of the Rumba Palace on Newcastle's Ouseburn and the making of Bruce's last sound sculpture.
Shooting Magpies (2005)
Amber Films (Producer)
The third in Amber's coalfield trilogy of free-standing feature dramas exploring post-industrial experience in East Durham, Shooting Magpies looks at the impacts of heroin and the economically marginalised lives of a generation that emerged after coal. See the trailer
Fine performances and an unflinching gaze... New York Times
We Did It Together - So Why Do I Feel So Alone? (2003)
A documentary video made with members of Teen Talk, a teenage mothers' peer education group in East Durham. It's available as a VHS, together with an information pack for educational institutions - please contact Side Gallery.
Like Father
Amber Films (Producer)
The second film in Amber's coalfield trilogy, a feature drama exploring the lives of a grandfather, father and son, as they come to terms with the post-closure landscape of East Durham. See a video clip
Hope, humour and rugged beauty amid the bleakness... Independent on Sunday