2024 – “The Revolutionary Spirit” and “The Pool of Life” – Feature/4x1h TV series

Starring Bill Drummond, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Will Sergeant, Chris Bernard, Peter O’Halligan, Dave Balfe, Mike McCartney.

The story of Liverpool’s Bohemian Underground 1965-1984.

After The Beatles left Liverpool in 1964 a narrative arose that the city was left culturally destitute until the rise of the Post-Punk club, Eric’s and its associated bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. This was not true.

This new series tells an alternative history of Liverpool’s underground arts and music movement. For the first time it details a continuous timeline of adventurous creativity, from The Mersey Poets to Deaf School and from The Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun to the super-club, Cream.

This is the greatest story never told.

2019 – “Lori and the Six Six Sixties” – Feature – In Production

Shot on Super16.

2019 – “Far From the Apple Tree” – Feature 

Grant’s third feature film. Starring Sorcha Groundsell (The Innocents) and Victoria Liddelle (The Outlaw King)

Shot on 35mm, S16, Red Dragon and home processed 8mm.

To be released in the UK by Redemption Films in late 2019

“Judith, a struggling artist, gets her dream job of working for a renowned visual artist named Roberta Roslyn. While cataloging Roberta’s work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, she learns that this girl is actually her boss’s missing daughter Maddy. As she investigates the mystery of just what could have happened to this girl, she starts to develop a new persona and it comes to a point where she must decide if she is to leave her job or continue and risk losing who she is.”

“Dreamy, Hallucinatory and Haunting” – Boston Underground Film Festival

“Simply one of the most authentic horror films I’ve ever seen. What it accomplishes with zero jump scares, virtually no blood, and a minuscule budget is mind-numbing” – Modern Horrors.

“This is an excellent piece of work…. Quick cuts connect material from different parts of this fictional universe, across time and space, in a way that blatantly suggests the subliminal, playing with contradictions. It’s also dazzlingly beautiful, all the way through.” –  Eye For Film

2017 – Teenage Superstars – Documentary Feature

Scotland, 1982.  The stars of Big Gold Dream had either split up or taken the Big Gold Road south to major label success in London.

Glasgow was left with an ‘indie label’ void but the seeds sown in Big Gold Dream would lead to a new era of rebellion.  Punk was reborn in the shape of a new type of independent music.  No longer would bands look to tidy themselves up and sign to a major record label in the hope of appearing on Top of the Pops.   Independent music in Scotland now meant ‘No Compromise’ and this is the story of those bands and the personalities involved.

This new documentary from the creators of Big Gold Dream tells the story of what happened next in the uncompromising world of Scottish indie music. The Vaselines, BMX Bandits, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub all appear. Bursting with new interviews, rare archive, untold stories along with some of the most amazingly difficult, scratchy, noisy, genius pop music ever given to the world. This is Teenage Superstars and you need to watch it.

2017 Festivals:

Edinburgh International Film Festival. Nominee: Audience Award, Best Documentary

Raindance Film Festival

Released on DVD and Cinemas in 2019.

Reviewed in Mojo, Louder than War, Record Collector, Long Live Vinyl,

2016 – Night Kaleidoscope – Feature

Grant’s second feature Film. Here are some quotes from reviews.  I left out the one that said ‘it’s not arty, it’s just rubbish’ and ‘easily the worst film of the year’

“Dreamlike, elusory, impressionistic. The film is not so much a drama as a sensory experience.” HollywoodInvestegator

“Night Kaleidoscope is without debate one of the most stunning films in Horror cinema. The way this production conveys horror defies artistry and validates this opinion.” Decay Mag

“In a glitched-out dreamlike urban backdrop, an investigator deals with killers that he thinks are not human. An ingenious film, it sets a default of reality-shifting fantasy–which, instead of diminishing, only heightens the intensity of up-close fleshy vampiric rituals.” Sam Vanivray, Amazon US

“There’s fab cinematography and a nice soundtrack. With there being more scene flashing and slow motion than dialogue, Night Kaleidoscope seems to focus on becoming a type of visual art than story share.” Hellnotes

“an authentically surreal, dream-like experience… that is disorienting and nightmarish in the best possible way.” SickFlix

“Night Kaleidoscope is a bizarre, psychedelic, artistic take on vampires” HorrorGeekLife

“There is a really unique and artistic feel to the film that is definitely accentuated by this. Some fantastic lighting and an extremely good synth soundtrack from Alec Cheer helps paint a really atmospheric picture” Midnight Horror Show

It’s available on Amazon Prime here:

2016 – The Glasgow School – Feature Documentary

A sister film to Big Gold Dream (see below)

2015 – Big Gold Dream – Documentary Feature

The hidden story of FAST Product and Postcard Records, two of Scotland’s most loved independent record labels.  The film features interviews (and music) from members of Joy Division, The Human League, The Rezillos, Fire Engines, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and The Associates.  It won the EIFF 2015 Audience Award.  And it’s been written about in various high profile print and online articles – Mojo, Q, Pitchfork, Vice, Record Collector, Clashmag and many more. Filmed over a VERY long time.

Sight and Sound picks of 2015

Screened on BBC2 in April 2017 and April 2019

Released on DVD in May 2017

2014 – Sarah’s Room – Feature

First drama feature film, filmed in a VERY short time.  It won some awards and generally had good things written about it. It seemed to confuse a lot of people as it does not easily fit into a genre. Someone said it had ‘moments of genius’, which I obviously liked a lot. Someone else said it would only be liked by a very niche audience who took vast amounts of hallucinogens.

You can watch it for free on YouTube/Amazon Prime/Vimeo and IndieFLix

2011 – Horrorshow – Feature Concert Film – Unreleased

This was a documentary concert film about the one-off reformation of Scottish Punk band, The Scars for a benefit gig with a 30 minute history at the start.

2010 – Come In Tokyo – Music Video for Fence Records

Music video shot on 16mm

2009 – The Bell Witch of Leith – Experimental short 

Experimental film shot on 16mm. Lots of in-camera techniques such as triple exposures and hand processing.

Screened at Dounne the Rabbit Hole festival

2008 – Above from Below – Jacob’s Pillow Documentary

2008 – Shadow Halation – Experimental Short

Super8, Filmed on expired stock and hand processed. Music by Alec Cheer

2008 – Unflame – Experimental short

Super8, Filmed on expired Soviet filmstock.

2007 -Aphlogistic – Experimental Short

16mm,  home processed.

2006 – Reynardyne – Music Video for Lucky Luke

Super8.

2006 – Effluvium – Experimental Short

16mm, home processed. Music by Wounded Knee

2005 – The Autograph Hunters – Documentary Short

Screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival