Oak Tree Productions

Short Films

To date, Oak Tree Productions has produced 20 fictional short films (excluding 3 Director Cut versions), covering a wide variety of genres.

Starting with the most recent first, the short films read as follows:

Miss You
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 10 min / 2010) [Co-Production]

Influenced by Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, this short drama follows two young teenagers encountering sectarianism via various forms of 21st century cyber bullying.

Screenings: Drumchapel United Family Festival (Glasgow, Jan 2010)

Fade Away and Radiate
(Dir: Stewart Gardiner / UK / 12 min / 2009)

Beginning like It's a Wonderful Life if the angel had failed to save George Bailey, the story sees two women from another world try to find their place in ours. It's where the 1950s crashes into modern times and the supernatural meets the everyday.

Screenings: Spangled’s Mystery Train Film Night (Glasgow, Mar 2010), GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Feb 2010)

Time and Tide
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 1 ˝ min / 2009)

The predicted melting of the artic circle's polar ice caps over the next 30 years, shown in a bathroom sink in 30 seconds....

Screenings: 1minutetosavetheworld competition

The World Before Time: Re-Discovered
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 3 ˝ min / 2008)

Stop motion claymation adventure given a make-over 15 years after its original completion in 1993.

Screenings: GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Jun 2008)

Pulling Teeth: Fully Crowned
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 10 min / 2008)

Director's own cut of the Scottish-Australian black comedy from 2003.

The Story of the Fenwick Weavers Co-operative
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 10 min / 2008)

Local Fenwick weaver Thomas Barr meets a stranger in the Kings Arms one cold winter's night in 1763, and soon goes on to explain how the world's first workers co-operative was started two years earlier.

Screenings: Dick Institute Film Festival (Kilmarnock, Oct 2008), CIVICUS Exhibition (Glasgow, Jun 2008), Scottish Co-op AGM (Perth, May 2008), Fenwick Weavers Celebratory Evening (Fenwick, Mar 2008)

Nominated for Best Film of the Year at GMAC's Big Flick Awards in Dec 2008 Winner of the Best Film Award at GMAC's Café Flicker in Apr 2008.

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Second Moon On the Right
(Dir: Ken Rice / UK / 10 min / 2008) [Co-Production]

A strange visitor comes to a dark café bar with an agenda all of its own, as the indigenous life-forms carry on their daily routine.

Screenings: GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Feb 2008)

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Something That Had Been A Man
(Dir: Stewart Gardiner / UK / 8 ˝ min / 2008)

Too far gone in a world of film, our hero does like Don Quixote did before him.

Screenings: FilmLive Rushes Film Festival (Stirling, May 2008), GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Feb 2008)
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Bagged
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 10 min / 2007)

A nosey neighbour begins to suspect sinister goings on are afoot, soon after an elderly couple move into a quiet sheltered housing commune.

Screenings: Spangled’s Mystery Train Film Night (Glasgow, Mar 2010), Initial Itch (Glasgow, Oct 2009), FilmLive Rushes Film Festival (Stirling, May 2008), Propeller TV (Feb 2008), GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Feb 2008)
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The Report
(Dir: Stewart Gardiner / UK / 5 ˝ min / 2007)

Surveillance is brought home as a young woman desperately examines her life.

Screenings: Propeller TV (Feb 2008), GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Oct 2007)
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There Might Be Giants
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 4 min / 2007)

A story is told through images and voice-over narration, as a way of examining the pros & cons of wind farm technology as an answer to combating climate change.


Don't Look Yet!
(Dir: Paul Darroch / Italy / 1 ˝ min / 2007)

Pastiche of the British horror classic "Don't Look Now".

Screenings: BBC Film Festival (Glasgow, Jun 2007), BBC Mini Movies (YouTube, Jun 2007), Short-listed for broadcast as part of the BBC's British Season of Film in June 2007.

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Call Back: Special Edition
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 10 min / 2006)

Director's own cut of the telemarketing thriller from 2001.

Screenings: GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Oct 2007), Propeller TV (Jun 2007)
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The Librarian
(Dir: Paul Darroch / UK / 8 min / 2006)

In every library in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of becoming a somebody.

Screenings: GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Sep 2007), Propeller TV (Jun 2007)

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Engaged
(Dir: Stewart Gardiner / UK / 6 min / 2006)

Two women discuss the shortcomings of boyfriends as a mystery man lies bound and gagged in a bath.

Screenings: GMAC's Café Flicker (Glasgow, Jun 2007), Propeller TV (Apr 2007)

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