Biography of 'IFA Scotland'
Films associated with 'IFA Scotland'
- AMAZING MOMENTS OF THE GREAT TRACTION ENGINES, the
- COME AWAY IN
- CONSEQUENCES
- COUNTY ON THE MOVE
- DISAPPEARING ISLAND, the
- DRAM LIKE THIS, a
- DUNA BULL, the
- EDINBURGH ON PARADE
- ERSKINE BRIDGE, the
- GARDENS BY THE SEA
- GRAND MATCH, the
- IN GREAT WATERS
- KH-4
- KIND OF SEEING, a
- LINE FOR ALL SEASONS, a
- LINE TO SKYE, the
- LIVING IN SCOTLAND / SMITHS IN SCOTLAND, the
- LIVINGSTON - A TOWN FOR THE LOTHIANS
- LOCH LOMOND
- LOOK TO THE SEA
- MACKINTOSH
- ONE DAY IN IRVINE
- SEA CITY - GREENOCK
- SETTLED OUT OF COURT: Children's Hearings in Scotland
- SHELL SHOCK
- SONGS OF SCOTLAND
- SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND, the
- STONE IN THE HEATHER, a
- WALKABOUT EDINBURGH
- WATER OF LIFE, the
- WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
- WHY SCOTLAND, WHY EAST KILBRIDE
Production company
IFA Scotland (International Film Associates, Scotland) was founded in 1963 by two young filmmakers, Laurence Henson and Edward McConnell. Their talents had been noted by John Grierson, adjudicator at the 1957 Scottish Amateur Film Festival in which their first film Broken Images was entered. Henson subsequently worked for Grierson on the television series This Wonderful World in the early 1960s' and McConnell joined Templar Films as cameraman before both joined forces and established their own production company.
Grierson suggested the name Scottish Lion for the new venture, however the Registrar of Companies rejected this in view of possible confusion with British Lion. It was replaced by IFA Scotland, a name already in use by Grierson for a production company of his own in the USA. IFA Scotland is best known for theatrical shorts and documentaries, for agencies such as Films of Scotland, COI and British Transport Films and for television documentaries for Channel 4.
IFA also made short fiction films, several for the Children's Film Foundation in the 1960's and the award winning The Duna Bull (1972), Films of Scotland's first story film.
Researcher: Melissa Stewart