Foula Films is a Scottish production company specialising in short form films

We are comprised of a group of young filmmakers from Scotland who are dedicated to bringing an interesting and personal form of cinema into the mainstream

Filmmakers

  • Lewis Cranston

    WRITER/DIRECTOR/SOUND

    Glasgow-based filmmaker with a particular interest in the theme of landscape, particularly the Scottish landscape and its significance to Scottish identify. Also interested and influenced by modernist cinema and German Romanticism. A recent graduate of Screen Academy Scotland's BA Film Programme

  • Lewis William Shipley

    WRITER/DIRECTOR

    An upcoming young filmmaker who has made fiercely independent films in the countryside of the Scottish Borders. Lewis specialises in 16mm and 8mm film formats

  • Anton McPhilemy

    WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR

RECENT/UPCOMING RELEASES

  • The Watergaw (2024)

    An upcoming folk horror short film by Lewis Cranston starring Colin McCredie, Strath Martin and David R. Montgomery

    A man attempts to initiate the sale of his ancestral land in the Scottish Borders but in the process finds himself confronted by his own past and the mystical qualities of the landscape.

  • Lights Across The Shore (2022)

    A film by Lewis Shipley starring Sam Cook

    Official selection at EIFF 2022’s ‘New Visions’ and a nominee for the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023

    A coming of age tale of young man’s move from a Scottish Island to the city of Edinburgh