The New Ten Commandments Explained

The New Ten Commandments
Director:	Doug Aubrey Sana Bilgrami Mark Cousins Kenneth Glenaan Douglas Gordon David Graham Scott Nick Higgins Anna Jones Alice Nelson Tilda Swinton Irvine Welsh
Producer:	Ewan Angus Nick Higgins Carole Sheridan
Music:	Jim Sutherland
Cinematography:	Ian Dodds George Geddes Minttu Mantynen Scott Ward
Editing:	Patricia Gomes Klaus Heinecke Timo Langer Aldo Palumbo
Studio:	Lansdowne Productions Scottish Documentary Institute
Runtime:	101 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

The New Ten Commandments is a feature-length documentary film which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008. This documentary film is from a Scottish perception.^[1]

The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott and Anna Jones.^[2]

The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.^[3]

The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments

1. The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott
2. The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins
3. The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami
4. The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey
5. The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan
6. The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins
7. The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon
8. The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones
9. The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson
10. The Right to freedom of thought - Directors, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton

The film was scheduled for its first television broadcast as The New 10 Commandments in Scotland on BBC Two Scotland in December 2008.

External links

• The New Ten Commandments webpage.
  • The New Ten Commandments at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
• The New 10 Commandments as a BBC Programme.

Notes and References

1. News: The New Ten Commandments - Scottish Documentary Institute. Scottish Documentary Institute. 2017-09-07. en-GB.
2. Web site: The New Ten Commandments (2008). IMDb.com. IMDb.com, Inc.. 29 July 2012.
3. Web site: The New Ten Commandments. Bryan Veloso. 29 July 2012. 23 February 2010.