Gillian Berrie is a Scottish filmmaker and co-founder of the Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie.
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13 Facts About Gillian Berrie
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Gillian Berrie created the hugely successful Jumpcut project which was dedicated to giving young and underprivileged people access to working in the film industry through a pop-up film school that created an intensive, mentor-lead fast track into the industry.
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The project went on to inspire Gillian Berrie to create Short Circuit, the Scottish talent initiative and shorts funding scheme that launched in 2020.
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In 1996 Gillian Berrie co-founded Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie, writing and producing serial award-winning shorts, California Sunshine and Somersault.
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Alongside, Gillian Berrie gained experience in numerous film and television roles as well as Casting Director on Ken Loach's My Name is Joe and Lynne Ramsay's legendary Ratcatcher.
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Gillian Berrie produced many of David Mackenzie's films including: Last Great Wilderness, Hallam Foe, Young Adam, You Instead, Perfect Sense, Starred Up and the biggest film ever to be made entirely in Scotland, Outlaw King.
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Gillian Berrie co-produced the multi-prize winner Dear Frankie and Jonathan's Glazer's Under the Skin.
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Gillian Berrie has produced several features for first time feature film directors, including David Mackenzie, Colin Kennedy, Andrea Arnold, Morag MacKinnon and Ciaran Foy, as well as numerous additional shorts including the lauded I Love Luci.
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In 2012 Gillian Berrie won 'Tastemaker of the Year' at the Scottish Style Awards.
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In 2014 Gillian Berrie received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of West of Scotland for her contribution to film, culture and the arts.
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From 2014 to 2018 Gillian Berrie devoted several years to strategic and intensive lobbying for additional funding and support for the screen sector in Scotland which resulted in the government doubling its investment and the creation of the enormously successful Screen Scotland.
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Gillian Berrie continues to contribute to the next generation of Scottish film-makers through Short Circuit, which is in its 3rd year and has so far given the first opportunities in film-making to hundreds of new-comers and produced dozens of short films and is developing a number of feature films.
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Gillian Berrie has numerous projects in development and has recently directed her first short film Food for Love.
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