A former Home Affairs editor at the Sunday Herald is among the nominations in awards run by BAFTA in Scotland and which has just unveiled its shortlist for this year's competition, following an absence last year.
Liam McDougall now works as a producer/director in BBC Scotland's Investigations Unit. His documentary, Surgery's Dirty Secret'is an hour-long investigation examining how – despite being commited to a policy of ethical procurement – the UK's health sector is sourcing surgical instruments from sweatshops in Pakistan.
In March this year, McDougall – as producer, director and cameraman – travelled with reporter, Samantha Poling, to Sialkot in the north east of Pakistan. There, they filmed in workshops where they saw workers making surgical instruments for the UK market, earning the equivalent of £2 a day. While there, Poling interviewed a number of workers, including a 14 year-old boy who makes instruments for the UK market. He had lost two fingers after injuring himself while manufacturing equipment.
This is the first time that McDougall has been nominated for a Bafta as a producer/director. However, he was assistant producer on the documentaries that netted the Current Affairs title on the last two occasions: Britain's Homecare Scandal, two years ago, and Britain's Protection Racket, the year before that. Poling was the reporter on Britain's Protection Racket as well.
He was Home Affairs editor until the end of 2006.
The awards ceremony is taking place in Glasgow on the 13th of next month.
Also among the nominees are two programmes from STV: The Football Year’s: 1974 The Golden Generation will take on BBC series The Scheme and Neil Morrissey: Care Home Kid, in the Best Factual category.
The Lockerbie Bomber: Sent Home to Die is up against BBC Scotland’s The Walking Wounded and McDougall's Scotland Investigates: Surgery’s Dirty Secret, for the Current Affairs award.
Critically-acclaimed film, NEDS, has received four nominations including Feature Film and Best Writer and Director for Peter Mullen.
The nominations are as follows:
CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME
All Over the Place
Directed by Natalie Moss
Produced by Traci Burns and Maria Stewart
BBC Scotland for BBC1
Big City Park
Directed by Richard Bradley
Produced by Dougie Napier
BBC Scotland for Cbeebies
Calum Dongle
Directed by Douglas MacKinnon
Produced by Patsi MacKenzie
Sorbier Productions for BBC ALBA
CURRENT AFFAIRS
BBC Scotland Investigates: Surgery's Dirty Secret
Directed and Produced by Liam McDougall
BBC1 Scotland
The Lockerbie Bomber: Sent Home to Die
Produced by Donald John MacDonald and David Cowan
STV
The Walking Wounded
Directed and Produced by Stephen Bennett
Clarity Productions for BBC Scotland
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
Burnistoun
Directed and Produced by Iain Davidson
The Comedy Unit for BBC Scotland
Limmy's Show
Directed by Brian Limond
Produced by Jacqueline Sinclair
The Comedy Unit for BBC Scotland
Rab C Nesbitt
Directed and Produced by Colin Gilbert
The Comedy Unit for BBC Scotland
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY
The First Movie
Directed by Mark Cousins
Produced by Gill Parry & Trish Dolman
Connectfilm & Screen Siren for More4
Jig
Directed and Produced by Sue Bourne
BBC Scotland & Arrow Films
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
Directed by Charlie Russell
Produced by Craig Hunter
KEO North and Warner Bros. for BBC2
FACTUAL SERIES
The Football Years: 1974 The Golden Generation
Directed and Produced by Brendan O'Hara
STV
Neil Morrissey: Care Home Kid
Directed and Produced by Gabe Solomon
BBC Scotland
The Scheme
Directed and Produced by Michelle Friel and Julian Kean
Friel Kean Films for BBC Scotland
LIVE EVENT COVERAGE
BBC Scotland: Release of Abdul Baset-Al Megrahi
Directed and Produced by James Crook
BBC Scotland
The Great Climb
Directed by Ian Russell
Produced by James Else, Richard Else, Laura Hill & Margaret Wicks
Triple Echo Productions for BBC2 Scotland
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Directed and Produced by John Smith
BBC Scotland
TELEVISION DRAMA
Case Histories
Directed by Dan Zeff
Produced by Helen Gregory
BBC Scotland for BBC1
Garrow's Law
Directed by Ashley Pearce
Produced by Nick Pitt
Shed Media Scotland & Twenty Twenty Productions for BBC Scotland
Hattie
Directed by Dan Zeff
Produced by Richard Osborne & Seb Barwell
Angel Eye Media Productions for BBC Scotland
ACTOR/ACTRESS – TELEVISION
Peter Capaldi
Field of Blood
Directed by David Kane
Produced by Alan J Wands
Slate Films North for BBC1 Scotland
Jayd Johnson
Field of Blood
Directed by David Kane
Produced by Alan J Wands
Slate Films North for BBC1 Scotland
Ford Kiernan
Field of Blood
Directed by David Kane
Produced by Alan J Wands
Slate Films North for BBC1 Scotland
GAME
iBomber Defense
Cobra Mobile
Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar!
Cohort Studios
Quarrel
Denki
ANIMATION
Battenberg
Directed by Stewart Comrie
Produced by Anna Odell
Digicult
Fixing Luka
Directed by Jessica Ashman
Produced by Anna Odell
Digicult
The Tannery
Directed by Iain Gardner
Produced by Ricahrd Scott & Anke Hilt
Axis Animation
SHORT FILM
I Love Luci
Directed by Colin Kennedy
Produced by Brian Coffey
Sigma Films
The Shutdown
Directed by Adam Stafford
Produced by Peter Gerard, Andy Green & Leo Bruges
Accidental Media
Soltice
Directed by David Stoddart
Produced by Justine Watson
WRITER
David Kane
The Field of Blood
Slate Films North for BBC1 Scotland
Colin McLaren
Donkeys
Sigma Films
Peter Mullan
NEDS
Blue Light & Entertainment One
ACTOR/ACTRESS – FILM
James Cosmo
Donkeys
Sigma Films
Conor McCarron
NEDS
Blue Light & Entertainment One
Brian Pettifer
Donkeys
Sigma Films
DIRECTOR
David Mackenzie
Perfect Sense
Sigma Films
Morag McKinnon
Donkeys
Sigma Films
Peter Mullan
NEDS
Blue Light & Entertainment One
FEATURE FILM
Donkeys
Directed by Morag McKinnon
Produced by Anna Duffield
Sigma Films
NEDS
Directed by Peter Mullan
Produced by Alain de la Mata, Marc Missonier & Olivier Delbosc
Blue Light & Entertainment One
Perfect Sense
Directed by David Mackenzie
Produced by Gillian Berrie
Sigma Films
