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Can't Stop Breathing

A delicate portrait of the strained existence of a mother and her daughters in the Scottish countryside.

  • United Kingdom
  • 2004, 15 min
  • Director: Amy Neil
  • Director of photography: Ian Dodds
  • Editor: Bert Eeles
  • Screenplay: Amy Neil
  • Music: Ben Foster
  • Cast: Jane Lapotaire, Lynsey Baxter
  • Contacts: Scottish Screen
  • Producer: Ravinder Basra
  • Production: Big Nose Films


Amy Neil

Amy Neil studied English literature and later Japanese and film in Tokyo where she started working as a camera assistant, writer and producer. She eventually directed her first short film Unthink in 2002 there and made Can’t Stop Breathing (2004) after returning to Scotland. She is now writing her first feature and planning her next short film.