Bread Makers
11 min / documentary / 2007 / Scotland
filmmaker: Yasmin Fredda
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The workers interact using individual expressions, repetitive speech and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships with each other and their support workers. In what can seem a chaotic workplace, there is a mix of sounds that can approach levels of white noise amidst the carefully structured everyday process of bread production. The featured bakery is part of a centre inspired by the ideas of Rudolph Steiner where the workers realize their potential for self-discovery and creativity in a social environment.
Film Festivals:
• Sprout Film Festival, New York City, 2011
• Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, 2008
• London International Disability Film Festival, London, 2008
• Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA, 2008
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, USA, 2008
• Silverdocs Film Festival, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 2008
• Beirut Documentary Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, 2007
• Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, UK, 2007
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