Amber Films
The Catalogue
Making films since 1968, there are 40 or so documentaries, dramas and feature films...
Even though the group insists there is no dominant creative individual there is evidently a real film genius at work here. The Times
A number of Amber's films are now available on DVD - check out the Online Shop. We will be making more of the back catalogue available as time and money allows, so keep checking the website. Meanwhile, many are still available on VHS. Our site has a number of film clips from the Amber catalogue, but in a new venture, we've set up SideTV, showing a monthly changing selection of whole films and videos by Amber and its friends.
Today I Am With You
A work-in-progress trailer for a documentary emerging from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's Byker Revisited work
The Pursuit of Happiness (2008)
Amber Films (Producer)
Starting out as a film about the Coulsons, a horsey family in Craghead, County Durham, when Amber founder member and key visionary Murray Martin died in 2007, it became a documentary about a filmmaker who became part of the world he documented.
The Bamboozler (2007)
Amber Films (Producer)
A documentary about love, death and percussion; about Tyneside percussionist Bruce Arthur, the creation of the Rumba Palace on Newcastle's Ouseburn and the making of Bruce's last sound sculpture.
Shooting Magpies (2005)
Amber Films (Producer)
The third in Amber's coalfield trilogy of free-standing feature dramas exploring post-industrial experience in East Durham, Shooting Magpies looks at the impacts of heroin and the economically marginalised lives of a generation that emerged after coal. See the trailer
Fine performances and an unflinching gaze... New York Times
We Did It Together - So Why Do I Feel So Alone? (2003)
A documentary video made with members of Teen Talk, a teenage mothers' peer education group in East Durham. It's available as a VHS, together with an information pack for educational institutions - please contact Side Gallery.