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Bill Forsyth
This droll filmmaker blends quirky but incisive comedy with bracing moral underpinnings. At age 17, Forsyth was hired as the sole assistant to a documentary filmmaker and gradually learned all aspects of production. After a brief stint in the late 1960s at London's National Film School and at the BBC as an assistant editor, he returned to Glasgow. Forsyth ended his partnership in a sponsored film company as he longed to make fiction features rather than industrial documentaries. A subsequent collaboration with an amateur theater group of mostly young players led to his first feature, "That Sinking Feeling" (1979), shot for $10,000.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet |
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Gregory's Two Girls |
Director, Writer |
- | 1999 |
| 54% |
|
Being Human |
Director, Screenwriter |
$1.3M | 1994 |
| 80% |
|
Breaking In | Director | $1.8M | 1989 |
| 92% |
|
Housekeeping | Director | - | 1987 |
| 100% |
|
Comfort and Joy | Director | - | 1984 |
| 100% |
|
Local Hero |
Director, Writer |
- | 1983 |
| 95% |
|
Gregory's Girl | Director | $7.7K | 1981 |
| No Score Yet |
|
That Sinking Feeling |
Director, Producer |
- | 1979 |