Films
Pictures From Afghanistan
Premiered Glasgow International Film Festival - March 2020
BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
David Pratt returns to Afghanistan to tell the story of his early photojournalism assignments covering the mujahideen guerrilla war against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. Smuggled over the border by the resistance, his photographic journey takes him across the Hindu Kush mountains in what would become one of many arduous clandestine trips inside the country to document the war. The film also gives a searing insight into the country’s bitter faction civil war of the 1990s and subsequent rise of the Taliban.
Produced, Directed and Filmed by Robbie Fraser of Dulcimer Films for BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland.
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Pictures From Iraq
Premiered Glasgow International Film Festival - March 2022
BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
David Pratt returns to Iraq where he reunites with old friend and journalist colleague Urban Hamid with whom he has made many trips to the region over the decades. Together they retrace their steps during the time of the US-led invasion in 2003 and the offensive to liberate Mosul in 2016-2017. Pratt also meets up with renowned Mosul photographer Ali Al-Baroodi.
Nominated Best Factual. Celtic Media Festival 2023.
Produced, Directed and Filmed by Robbie Fraser of Dulcimer Films for BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
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Pictures From the Balkans
Premiered July 2022
BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
In an emotional return to the former Yugoslavia, David Pratt meets surviving veterans of the battle of Vukovar in 1991. As one of only a handful of journalists along with colleague and old friend Alan Davies to gain access to the town during the siege by the Yugoslav People’s Army and paramilitary forces from Serbia, Pratt’s photographs prove to be an invaluable record of the battle and those that took part. Moving on in a road trip across Bosnia Herzegovina the film takes the viewer through other past battlegrounds, including Tuzla, Sarajevo and Mostar where Pratt relives one of the most traumatic experiences of his photojournalism career before the film culminates in Dubrovnik.
Produced, Directed and Filmed by Robbie Fraser of Dulcimer Films for BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
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Pictures From Ukraine
Parts 1-2
Premiered March 2023
BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
In a two part documentary series David Pratt takes us from Lviv to Kyiv, Borodyanka and Bucha to Mykolaiv telling the story of the first year of the war immediately following the Russian invasion. The film also delves back into Pratt’s earlier photographic assignments in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region in 2014 as pro-Russian separatist forces first came to the fore.
Produced, Directed and Filmed by Robbie Fraser of Dulcimer Films for BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland
Contact: Dulcimer Films https://www.dulcimerfilms.com/contact
Contact: International Sales Terranoa, https://www.terranoa.com/en