Hailstone Films

01/02/2024

A24 will distribute the documentary in North America.

22/01/2024

ARCHITECTON is in competition at Berlinale!

Our latest collaboration with director Victor Kossakovsky will have its world premiere at the 74th Berlin Film Festival. This beautiful film has been an adventure from start to finish. It took the team to unexpected places in many ways, and it’s not often two babies are born during a production!

Thank you Victor and . It was a pleasure to be part of the team again as co-producer. And , thank you for welcoming us into your world.

Big thank you as well to for the selection - can’t wait to be back in the running for another Bear after 2022’s Crystal Bear for ’s Born in Damascus.

Congratulations to our marvellous team and partners 👏🙏🏻 including but far from limited to:

Ainara, Frank, Filippo, everyone at , , , , , , , Thomas, , Astrid, Estelle and , , , , .dreams, , , , Miika, Max, Abdul, Mauro, Davide, ,






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12/07/2023

Filmmaker Riad Arfin and I are very pleased to announce that A BORDER BETWEEN US will be premiering at Edinburgh International Film Festival at 15:00 on 19th August 2023. ✨

This film is part of Bridging the Gap from - you can get tickets for the showcase of 6 great short docs at Vue Omni by following the 🔗 in the bio.

Thank you to our wonderful team 🙏🏻
Editor: .manson
Composer:
Sound Designer:
Dubbing Mixer:
Colourists: .sanchezmartos &
Exec Producers: Flore Cosquer and Mark Thomas
and the teams at Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland for their support.

An extra special thanks to Aliki and Riad’s mum.

A Film by Riad Arfin
Produced by Charlotte Hailstone

Celebrating 20 years of Bridging the Gap.
is hosted this year by

26/01/2023

Nearing the end of my in Bratislava. 3 weeks diving into a new project!


Thank you to .darras for being a great host, and for arranging enlightening conversations including those with , and , and local filmmakers. All your feedback was so valuable.

And thanks to Emerging Producers for enabling this great opportunity.

I enjoyed the brief snow as much as the pigeons did.

05/10/2022

Over the moon that Born in Damascus will be going to so many great festivals in October and November, some of which director will be attending in person. Thank you to the festival teams for the invitations and selections!

🇫🇷 War on Screen Festival (Châlons en Champagne, France) in the International Competition. Showing 5 and 7 October.

🇬🇧 Take One Action Film Festival (UK). Online 21 – 30 October in “To Remember, To Reclaim: Archives for Future Love.”

🇬🇧 Folkestone Documentary Festival (UK). Showing 22 October with in person Q&A from Laura.

🇬🇧 Sunderland Shorts, Sunderland (UK). Showing 22 October.

🇦🇺 Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival (Gympie, Australia). Showing 28 October in “Tough Generation,” “Fringe Cuts” and “Tough World” programmes.

🇩🇪 doxs! Documentary Film Festival (Duisburg, Germany). Nominated for the Grosse Klappe award. Showing 10 November, which Laura will be attending in person.

🇫🇷 This is England British Short Film Festival (Rouen, France). 12-20 November. Laura will be attending in person.

Director / Editor:
Producer:
Edit Consultant:
Sound Designer:
Music by:

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21/09/2022

Laura and I are thrilled that Born In Damascus has been selected in competition at . It will be screening as part of Stories of a Present Past next week on Wednesday, September 28 at Watershed Cinema in Bristol. Laura will be there for the screening and doing a Q&A afterwards.

Thank you and to for picking Born In Damascus as one of their top 10 Encounters shorts!

🔗 link in bio for tickets in person or online.

Watch this space for some more exciting festival announcements coming for Oct/Nov.

04/08/2022

I had a lot of fun with Aidan, Becky, Mark, a host of musicians and local film crew last summer production managing this collaborative ode to traditional music and the community of the Cowgate, Edinburgh’s Little Ireland.

Very pleased it will have its premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival on 15th Aug 2022. Tickets 🔗 link in bio.

A collaborative film by Aidan O’Rourke , Becky Manson .manson and Mark Cousins

A co-production by Edinburgh International Festival and John Archer, Hopscotch Films

29/06/2022

London friends, Born in Damascus will be at the BARBICAN on 8th July 2022 as part of SAFAR Futures Short Film Programme.

There will be a Q&A with director . We hope to see you there 🌝

🔗 link in bio to book your tickets to this celebration of emerging filmmaking here in the UK.

23/06/2022

Born in Damascus hits South Korea! 🇰🇷

Our Asian premiere is at Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival in the Spectrum section, “films that inspire you to never give up despite the hardships you face.”

Navalny, edited by our amazing consultant editor Maya will also be showing in the International Feature Competition.

Also look out for Nothing to See Here by - we were programmed together at Berlinale and I loved this film.

Thanks to for the selection and to our team again for their hard work on the film. The festival runs from 23 -28 June 2022.

Director/Editor:
Consultant editor:
Sound designer:
Music by:

Thanks to

12/06/2022

We are delighted that Laura Wadha’s Born in Damascus has been selected for Doc Edge Schools Festival Sessions in New Zealand - homeland of our consultant editor, Maya 🇳🇿
 
The Virtual Classroom platform (schools.docedge.nz) enables Doc Edge to offer educational documentaries that inspire, explore and educate at no cost to students across the country who cannot visit the theatres, until 10 July 2022.

26/05/2022

Action!

✨CannesDocs Closing - so many friends and connections, old and new

✨Polaris - lucky enough to be Ainara’s plus one at the premiere of her beautiful film Polaris. Great to reunite with the Aquarela crew

✨Fellow Emerging Producer Natalia Libet and director Anna Buryachkova win a prize for their film When We Were 15. Can’t wait to see it when it’s finished

✨CannesDocs Opening

✨Sign of a good night at San Telmo…please leave

26/05/2022

Camera…

✨Emerging Producers host CannesDocs Happy Hour. Big thanks to Jarmila, Marek, Pierre-Alexis, Babette and team for the whole CannesDocs experience

✨So happy to see fellow Emerging Producer Natalia Libet and director Anna Buryachkova and their film When We Were 15 win at the Ukrainian Films Now pitch

✨Incredibly proud of dear friends Ainara Vera, Emile Hertling Peronard and Hayat Mokenache premiering their film Polaris - so beautiful, please go and see it!

✨Les Pires screening as part of Un Certain Regard. Very talented young cast

✨Final bonus of fellow EPs Kristian and Leonard playing paparazzi

26/05/2022

26/05/2022

I see you shiver with antici…

19/05/2022

✨The 75th Cannes Film Festival, and the 1st for me.

And a mini reunion of the Emerging Producers gang 🥰

Looking forward to seeing old friends (let me know if you’re about) and meeting lots of new ones. Cinema ❤️

15/05/2022

Excited for upcoming festivals in March for Born in Damascus by 🎉

Thanks to a great selection of festivals for selecting us, and very happy more people will see Laura and Lujain’s story.

🇦🇺St Kilda Film Festival
Australia’s largest and longest-running short film festival.
Part of the Bridging the Gap Mobile showcase alongside our great cohort, online 27 May - 5 June 2022.

🇵🇱Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival
10th-anniversary festival taking place in Warsaw and Gdańsk. Online 23 May - 12 June and screenings 28 May and 5 June.

🇩🇪Mo&Friese Junges Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
24th edition running 29 May - 6 June, screenings 31 May and 4 June.

15/04/2022

Born in Damascus by is part of the British Council Short Documentary showcase in the VdR Film Market 👏

Thank you for the selection

23/03/2022

Repost 💬 We spoke with producer Charlotte Hailstone about her powerful film Born in Damascus which won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at this year.

🎬 The film follows director as she tries to reconnect with her cousin after being separated by the war in Syria.

✨ In the interview, Charlotte tells us how the Bridging the Gap scheme from helped shape her career within Scotland’s Screen sector.

👀 You can catch Born in Damascus at this Friday 25 March as part of the Scottish Competition 2 strand.

ℹ️ Read the full interview on our website. Link in bio

📸 Charlotte Hailstone at Berlinale 2022. Credit:

01/03/2022

01/03/2022 - The 2022 Emerging Producer from Scotland shares her experiences in documentary filmmaking and her future projects

21/02/2022

Getting outside the microphone comfort zone during an amazing 10 days in Berlin.

1. Emerging Producers 📸 Elliott Kreyenberg

2. Born in Damascus Premiere Q&A 📸

3. Awards Ceremony 📸

19/02/2022

The good news continues: Born in Damascus by has been selected for the Scotland’s Year of Stories Short Film Award at Film Festival.

You can see it on Friday 25th March at 18:15 at CCA Theatre. 📽🍿

17/02/2022

Emerging Producers has been incredible - so many new friends, colleagues and ideas. Sorry covid meant we missed some people 🧡

Thank you to (.re.ho and Jarmila especially) for this programme. Here’s to lots of international collaboration to come.

Thank you to & for their support.



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17/02/2022

FESTIVAL: Watch Born in Damascus at in the 14plus generation competition on these dates >
15/02 15:00
16/02 15:00
20/02 15:00 (at 2 x venues)
https://vimeo.com/587765283

16/02/2022

We just won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film in Berlinale Generation 14plus!!! 🐻

From Laura: “Completely in shock and so incredibly grateful to my amazing team who made this possible - my producer Charlotte Hailstone , my editing consultant , sound designer and composer .

Most of all, thank you to my cousin for going on this journey with me 💛

Huge thank you to and for believing in the film.

And of course thank you to for their continued support and having us back to mix the film.

Thank you so much !!!!!! 🐻❤️”

And from me, we really missed - it will not be the last chance she gets to experience this. Rising 🌟

15/01/2022

The wonderful Laura Wadha’s short film BORN IN DAMASCUS has been selected for ✨ Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival ✨ in the Generation 14plus Competition.

We are all so excited for the film to have it’s international premiere in Berlin in February! It was a delight to produce this film with Laura.

Directed and Edited by Laura Wadha
Produced by Hailstone Films
Sound design by
Music by
Editing consultant Maya Daisy Hawke

Lujain Zoalghena 💞

Scottish Documentary Institute
Screen Scotland


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09/11/2021

Canada here we come! Racing Stock will be showing at CUFF.Docs in Calgary as part of a short film showcase that tells the stories of how people shape their futures and the world around them.

Tickets at https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/. Available to watch online from 24-28 Nov 2021.

Thanks for having us, Calgary Underground Film Festival!
Creative Scotland Scottish Documentary Institute Hailstone Films Fat Toad Films JuS Bounce Racing

08/11/2021

Aquarela

31/10/2021

We emerged 🤩 with a very special group.

Thank you Marek Hovorka, Jarmila Outratová, Irena Taskovski, all our tutors and of course the Annas, Anna Ondrejková & Anna Výborná❤️🙌🏻
📷 Larsen
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival Creative Scotland ScreenSkills
Jin Jeon Leonardo Barrile Cinephage Victor Dragana Jovovic Natalia Libet Audun Amundsen Bori Csukás Carla Fotea Kristian Van der Heyden Evan Horan Jan Hubacek Dominik Jarmakovich Karolina Śmigiel Franziska Sonder Silvia Panakova Rene Kubasek Charlotte Hailstone