Breadmakers is a short documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

, directed by Yasmin Fedda and produced by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell

Robin Mitchell, born in the village of Letham, Fife, Scotland on the 27th May 1963, is a Tour Guide, Writer and Film Producer.-Education:He attended Parkhill Primary School in Leven and Buckhaven High School. At Edinburgh Napier University, he studied Hotel Catering and Institutional Management...

. The documentary is about Garvald Bakery, a bakery in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, Scotland, which employs adults with learning disabilities

Learning disability

Learning disability is a classification including several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors...

. The employees talk using individual expressions, repetitive speech, and sign language. Yasmin said that she was surprised about the response that the film received.

Awards

• Best Short Scottish Documentary at the 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival
  Edinburgh International Film Festival
  The Edinburgh International Film Festival is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings and related events taking place each June. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival...
  
   (2007)
• Best Short Documentary at the 2nd Emotion Pictures International Festival on Disability, Athens (2008)
• Best Short Documentary at the Middle East International Film Festival
  Middle East International Film Festival
  Abu Dhabi Film Festival is an international film festival. Created in 2007, the ceremony is held annually in October in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage , under the patronage of Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman of the ADACH...
  
  (2008)
• Special Jury Distinction at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival (GDFF) (2009).

Film Festival Screenings

• 9th Sprout Film Festival New York, USA (2011)
• 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece (2011)
• Look & Roll Short Film Festival, Switzerland (2010)
• The Supetar Super Documentary Film Festival, Croatia (2010)
• The First International Creative Documentary Film Festival in Skopje, Macedonia (2010)
• 3rd Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India (2010)
• Cromarty Film Festival (2009)
• The Normal Festival, Prague, Czech Republic (2009)
• International Short Film Festival The Way We Live, Munich, Germany (2009)
• The Antigonish International Film Festival, Canada (2009)
• Gdansk DocFilm Festival, Poland (2009)
• DOXITA, USA (2009)
• The PICTURE THIS FILM FESTIVAL, Canada (2009)
• ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival, Ontario, Canada (2009)
• Mustafa Ali’s Gallery, Damascus, Syria (2008)
• Kingussie Food on Film Festival, UK (2009)
• Heartland Film Society, Pitlochry, UK (2008)
• Microcinéfest2008, Toronto, Canada (2008)
• Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival, California, USA (2008)
• The Middle East International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2008)
• dokumentArt European Film Festival, Germany (2008)
• Planet in Focus International Environmental Festival, Toronto, Canada (2008)
• Milano Film Festival, Italy (2008)
• Documentary Film Festival "Message to Man", St Petersburg, Russia (2008)
• International Documentary Festival on Disability, Athens, Greece (2008)
• Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2008)
• Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival, UK (2008)
• Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, USA (2008)
• International Women's Film Festival Dortmund / Cologne, Germany (2008)
• SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival, USA (2008)
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, USA (2008)
• Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, UK (2008)
• True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, USA (2008)
• London International Disability Film Festival, London, UK (2008)
• Quebec International Ethnographic Film Festival, Quebec, Canada (2008)
• Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA (2008)
• Ofensiva International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland (2007)
• Film Festival Dokumenter, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2007)
• Docudays - Beirut Documentary Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon (2007)
• Documentary Film Festival of IRAN, "Cinema Verite", Tehran, Iran (2007)
• Seventh International Festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu, Finland (2007)
• Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK (2007)