Director Alasdair Cole interviewed for HIFF 2021 by Peter Urpeth. Iorram is showing throughout the festival.
Alastair Cole: Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Director Alastair Cole is an award-winning Edinburgh-based documentary filmmaker, originally from New Zealand. Iorram continues his filmmaking about the often subtle, intimate and increasingly political dynamics of language and society. His previous films include the feature documentary Colours of the Alphabet, and three short documentaries. Colours of the Alphabet was released at the 2016 Glasgow Film Festival, and went on to screen at 40+ international film festivals, was broadcast in 30 languages across 52 countries internationally, as well as winning multiple awards including a nomination for a Grierson Award 2016. His previous short films have been broadcast in 27 countries and screened at 50+ festivals around the world, including at Cannes Critics Week in 2011 and 2012. Alastair co-composed and performed a live score for the 1915 silent Italian film Assunta Spina, which premiered at the 2018 Glasgow Film Festival and has since toured around the UK. Alastair is also a lecturer in Film Practice at Newcastle University.
