Frantic rushes - Mark Cousins on his 4-week film

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AT THE END OF 2007, PRODUCERS Nick Higgins and Noe Mendelle askedme if I would get involved with a film they were making tocelebrate 60 years of the UN's Universal Declaration of HumanRights. They were looking for ten directors to tell ten short humanrights stories about Scotland today.

I had reservations. For more than a decade now I have been arguingagainst documentary being the issue wing of the film world. In themid-1990s, Kevin Macdonald and I did a book for Faber & Faber,called Imagining Reality, which passionately argued thatnon-fiction film is as creative as fiction. Though the bestnon-fiction films I know