WHERE YOU'RE MEANT TO BE

By Paul FEGAN

MONODUO FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2016

When a Scottish indie-pop artist decides to re-write his country’s oldest songs, the only things standing in his way are a travelling folk balladeer – and centuries of history.

Festivals
& Awards

Sheffield DocFest 2016
Glasgow Film Festival 2016 2016
IDFA 2016
Chicago IFF 2016
SILVER HUGO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2017
Melbourne International Film Festival 2017
Vancouver International Film Festival 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Paul FEGAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Paul FEGAN, David ARTHUR
    • Producer(s)
    • Paul FEGAN (Better Days), Sonja HENRICI (Scottish Documentary Institute)
    • Synopsis
    • Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs. But he doesn't count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart – a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat's folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for updating. She does not.With Stewart's wrath ringing in his ears, Moffat embarks on a road trip that finds him dressed for battle in a Highland graveyard, caught between feuding monster-hunters at Loch Ness, and singing in a dismissive farmer's kitchen – before facing Stewart in his home-town of Glasgow for an unlikely final showdown, in this funny film about music and death.