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The UK is currently in the midst of the largest prison expansion in more than a century. In Friends on the Outside  we hear from Jamie, an incarcerated man with a love for foraging and caring for birds, exploring how the non-human world can take care of us and offer moments of connection in the spaces of the state's neglect.

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Why do we naturalise prison as the only response to harm?

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With nine out of ten of the incarcerated population in the UK facing a mental health or substance misuse struggle, resources should be allocated to the root causes of harm, instead of to the expansion of a system that intentionally isolates and perpetuates cycles of violence.​

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There is an inspirational wildness to weeds; they resist confinement and offer freely available medicine to those who seek them out. To many, they are friends and allies in our resistance to forces acting against our wellbeing.

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A Bridging the Gap Production

Supported by Screen Scotland and the Scottish Documentary Institute

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Directed, filmed and edited by Annabel Moodie​

Produced by Lea Luiz de Oliveira

Edit consulted by Lindsay Watson

Exec Produced by Sinead Kirwan

Composition and Sound Design by Callum Rankine

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AWARDS

Slamdance Film Festival 2024                 Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2024        Best Scottish Short Award

Galway Film Fleadh 2024                             Best International Documentary Short

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FESTIVALS​​

WORLD PREMIERE – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2023
Inverness Film Festival 2023
True / False Film Festival 2024
Regard – Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2024
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2024

Nevada City Film Festival 2024
Bolton Film Festival 2024
Indie Street Film Festival 2024

ShortScape Film Festival 2024
This is England Film Festival 2024

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