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FRIENDS ON THE OUTSIDE
 2023, documentary short, 16mm

How can the non-human world can take care of us and offer moments of connection in the spaces of the state's neglect? 

“Over 16mm footage of plant life and prison walls, direct animation and excerpted letters, Friends on the Outside relays the audio account of Jamie, an incarcerated man who finds small comfort in foraging for medicinal weeds and caring for birds. Amidst the deepening neglect of the UK’s prison system, now undergoing its largest expansion in over a century, the immediate landscape of Jamie’s surveilled environment harbours possibilities for transgression and connection, where flora and fauna elude barbed fencing and state control.” 
(Written by Marcus Jack for VideoEx)

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
WORLD PREMIERE
BAFTA Scotland Award 2024 Nomination
Slamdance Film Festival 2024  
Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024  
Best Scottish Short Award
Galway Film Fleadh 2024  
Best Documentary Short
Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2025 Nomination








  



True / False Film Festival 2024
Dokufest International Documentary Short Film Festival 2025
VideoEx 2025
Minikino Film Week 2025
Family Film Project 2025
Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2024
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2023
Inverness Film Festival 2023
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2024
Bolton Film Festival 2024
Indie Street Film Festival 2024
This is England Film Festival 2024
OFFLINE Film Festival 2024 
Shortscape Film Festival 2024
British Shorts 2025
Nevada City Film Festival 2024
In Short Europe, Best of Best EUNIC 2024
Another Way Festival 2025

Filmhouse Edinburgh reopening programme 2025
Paisley Screen: Radical and Independent, Refractive CIC screening 2025
Against the Grain: Handmade Films, A House for Artists, Barking 2025

A Bridging the Gap Production
Supported by Screen Scotland
and the Scottish Documentary Institute
Directed by Annabel Moodie​
Produced by Lea Luiz de Oliveira
Edit consulted by Lindsay Watson
Exec Produced by Sinead Kirwan
Composition and Sound Design by Callum Rankine