Accidental Media produces award-winning documentaries, short films and interactive media for international broadcast, DVD and online distribution. Working with formats from 35mm to HD, we are constantly pushing technologies to new creative limits in both production and distribution.

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• 17 Dec 2009

  "Tomorrow's Fairground" was on BBC iPlayer

  (no longer available)

• 7 Dec 2009

  “Tomorrow’s Fairground”, the short documentary produced by Andy Green and directed by Peter Gerard will be broadcast on BBC2 Scotland on 16 December at 23:20. The film was made for the Bridging the Gap scheme run by the Scottish Documentary Institute.

• 3 Dec 2009

  Reviews pouring in for The Twilight Sad video

  The music video we produced for The Twilight Sad is already getting hyped: Stereogum, Pitchfork, Surfing on Steam, Strange Glue, Prefix, and plenty more. “Seven Years of Letters” is directed by Adam Stafford.

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  Pitchfork likes our Twilight Sad video

• 2 Dec 2009

  An interview with Peter Gerard is featured in the latest issue of Scotcampus magazine, about the distribution of Just to Get a Rep. The magazine is available throughout Scotland in December.

• 1 Dec 2009

  Accidental Media produced the latest music video for The Twilight Sad. The video is directed by Adam Stafford.

• 17 Nov 2009

  IDFA screenings

  Anyone going to Amsterdam for IDFA, please come along to see our 2 films in competition:

  MOTION/STATIC (directed by Peter Gerard & produced by Andy Green)
  Sun 22 Nov 19:45 Tuschinski 4 (world premiere)
  Mon 23 Nov 12:45 Munt 13 (industry)
  Wed 25 Nov 13:15 Munt 11
  Sat 28 Nov 19:45 Munt 10

  THE SHUTDOWN (directed by Adam Stafford & produced by Peter Gerard & Leo Bruges)
  Sat 21 Nov 16:15 Tuschinski 6
  Sun 22 Nov 22:45 Munt 13
  Mon 23 Nov 13:45 Munt 09
  Tue 24 Nov 16:30 Munt 12 (industry)

• 8 Nov 2009

  The Shutdown cleans up at the Jim Poole Awards

  Our short doc “The Shutdown” won both the jury & audience prizes at the Jim Poole Awards in Edinburgh! Congrats to Adam Stafford (director), Alan Bissett (writer), Leo Bruges (cinematographer), Peter Gerard (producer) and Andy Green (exec. producer).

• 29 Oct 2009

  We have launched a new filmmaker’s blog for Babel’s Market - our new feature documentary in development directed by Tomás Sheridan.

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  The Shutdown has been shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious Jim Poole Award. Come to the awards ceremony at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh on Sunday 8th November at 1pm to see the film and vote for the audience award.