The Company

Gabriel Films was set up in 1998 to produce commercial feature films in Scotland and internationally with Scottish elements. We have a small slate in funded development with partners including the BBC, Icon Entertainment, the UK Film Council and Scottish Screen.

AFTERLIFE (104 mins), written by Andrea Gibb, directed by Alison Peebles and produced by Catherine Aitken and Ros Borland. Starring Lindsay Duncan, Kevin McKidd, Paula Sage and Shirley Henderson, AfterLife is our first feature film. A touching family drama, it won The Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003 and has screened at numerous international festivals in 2003/4. It will be released theatrically in the UK on August 13th, 2004 by Soda Pictures.




The Directors

Ros Borland is a founder of Gabriel Films. She spent 6 years at the BBC as a Business Development Manager raising international finance via for TV drama, documentaries and children's programmes. She worked on a range of product from Vanity Fair to Invasion Earth and Mrs Brown. Before joining the BBC, she was an independent producer of documentaries. Ros was chair of PACT Scotland, the Producers' Association in1999-2001.

Craig Strachan has ten years of experience in the UK and US as a story analyst and scriptwriter for film and television. His scripts have been produced or developed by entities including the BBC, European Media Fund, Granada TV, Nouvelles Editions Films, Really Useful Group, Scottish Screen and United Artists Pictures. He wrote and directed the short horror film HIDDEN for Gabriel Films in 2000, and joined Gabriel as a company director in 2003.