Robbie McCallum
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Robbie McCallum is a Scottish screenwriter and novelist whose stories mix comedy, drama, sex, social realism, and strong characters with a driving narrative. He has won numerous Awards for creative writing and was nominated for a BAFTA
for his filmscript Rank. His debut novel I'll Be Your Dog, a comedy set in New Orleans, was released in 2010 and made the Amazon Top 10 Comedy List.
Life By the Drop, 2002
Rank, 2003
The Fall of Shug McCracken, 2005
Hips, Lips and Fingertips, 2007
The Road to Marfa Lights, 2008
The Green Room, 2009
Saviour, 2010
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Smiling Out Loud, 2011
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, Laurie Lee
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In 2003, Life By The Drop won the Audience Award at the Dallas International Film Festival.
In 2003, Rank won the London Production Award, was directed by David Yates
and was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA BAFTA
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In 2005, The Fall of Shug McCracken was Awarded Production Funding from Scottish Screen. The film was produced in Glasgow and Texas, USA and went on to win the Santa Monica Film Festival Best Comedy Award.
In 2008, The Road to Marfa Lights was Awarded Development funding from Scottish Screen.
Review of Rank by Film Critic Angus Wolfe Murray
Review of Sixty Cups of Coffee by FilmThreat's Chris Parcellin
Review of Sixty Cups of Coffee by Film Critic Karen Dawa
Review of Sixty Cups of Coffee by Film Critic Gavin Boyter
Interview with Robbie McCallum Retro Magazine Issue 6, 2010.
BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media...
for his filmscript Rank. His debut novel I'll Be Your Dog, a comedy set in New Orleans, was released in 2010 and made the Amazon Top 10 Comedy List.
Biography
McCallum was born in Govanhill, Glasgow. When he was 10, his family moved to England in the late 70s in search of work. He left school at 15 and joined the railway as an apprentice electrician. He subsequently attended Nottingham University, Universite D'Orsay (Paris) and the London College of Printing. McCallum is married to the film Production Designer, Sue Ferguson. They have two children and live in Brighton (UK) and Mindelo, São Vicente (Africa).Screenplays
Sixty Cups of Coffee, 2000Life By the Drop, 2002
Rank, 2003
The Fall of Shug McCracken, 2005
Hips, Lips and Fingertips, 2007
The Road to Marfa Lights, 2008
The Green Room, 2009
Saviour, 2010
Novels
I'll Be Your Dog, 2010]
Smiling Out Loud, 2011
Published
As well as writing his own novels, Robbie has recently been asked to write introductions for a number of classic books. The 'Thinking Ink Classic' collection is a series of books which are incredibly influential in the self development sector. These books are available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and most good book stores.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Ink-Classics/lm/ROHEJTT8Z3K36/ref=cm_lmt_dtpa_f_1_rdssss1
Influences
McCallum was quoted in Retro Magazine (2010) as saying the three biggest influences on his writing are Jack LondonJack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
, Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, and went to Marling School, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie , As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and...
and Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s.. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.- Biography :...
.
Awards
In 2002, McCallum was a BBC Talent Finalist for his film Sixty Cups of Coffee.In 2003, Life By The Drop won the Audience Award at the Dallas International Film Festival.
In 2003, Rank won the London Production Award, was directed by David Yates
David Yates
David Yates is an English filmmaker who rose to mainstream prominence directing the final four films in the Harry Potter film series. He helmed the series' fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth installments, all of which became an instant blockbuster success and made him the most commercially...
and was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA BAFTA
BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media...
.
In 2005, The Fall of Shug McCracken was Awarded Production Funding from Scottish Screen. The film was produced in Glasgow and Texas, USA and went on to win the Santa Monica Film Festival Best Comedy Award.
In 2008, The Road to Marfa Lights was Awarded Development funding from Scottish Screen.
Press
Reviews of I'll Be Your Dog on AmazonReview of Rank by Film Critic Angus Wolfe Murray
Review of Sixty Cups of Coffee by FilmThreat's Chris Parcellin
Review of Sixty Cups of Coffee by Film Critic Karen Dawa
Review of Sixty Cups of Coffee by Film Critic Gavin Boyter
Interview with Robbie McCallum Retro Magazine Issue 6, 2010.