A small company that makes few films, slowly

Answer Print Pictures was started in 2019 by a director and a producer who wanted to make the kind of films they used to watch in a 60-seat cinema in Govan.

How we work

Small crews

Nineteen people on an average shoot. Everyone knows everyone’s name, and the director can still hear the actors.

Long preparation

We spend longer in preparation than in production. Locations are scouted in the season we shoot them.

Light that was already there

Practical lamps, windows, a lighthouse. We add as little as we can and keep the grade warm.

Festivals first

Every film goes to festivals before sales and broadcast. A room of strangers tells us what the film is.

Seven years, seven films

2019

Founded in Govan, Glasgow. First office: a graving dock pump house.

2021

First short, Tide Tables, selected for Clermont-Ferrand.

2023

Morning, Kitchen premieres at Locarno. Lisbon office opens.

2024

Salt Road wins the audience award at CPH:DOX.

2025

The Long Exposure opens Berlinale Forum.

2026

Lengths shoots in Lisbon. Last Tram to Ostend in the edit.

Funded and supported by

Screen Scotland

ICA Portugal

Creative Europe MEDIA

Netherlands Film Fund

BFI Doc Society

VAF Flanders

RTP

Eurimages