The name DigiCult first appeared on the independent UK film scene in 2001 – a short film strand funded by the UK Film Council in Scotland through the Glasgow Media Access Centre (GMAC).

Working with a tiny amount of resource, the project’s founder producer Paul Welsh worked with GMAC’s core staff over five years, developing and producing over 25 shorts with budgets ranging from £1k to £8K. These included a number of BAFTA Scotland winning films including Chris Waitt’s comedy classic Dupe (2005) and Martin Smith’s Tracks (2006).

Early in 2007 – as part of GMAC’s general shorts re-branding – the DigiCult short film strand was wound down before the name and original philosophy of the project was resurrected in Autumn 2008 through a new independent company, set-up by Paul Welsh and partner producer David Smith.

Since DigiCult’s reboot – partnering with Scottish Screen, UK Film Council, BBC Scotland and more recently Creative Scotland, Screen Hi and Glasgow Film Festival – the company has established itself as one of the longest running and most successful independent talent development organizations in UK film, producing 13 live action, animation and documentary projects with emerging talent in the last three years alone.

Based between Glasgow and London, over the last ten years the company’s producers and talented creative associates have made over 50 short, medium and feature length films, many of them prize-winners for first and second time filmmakers who continue to light-up the film industry in the UK – people like Chris Waitt, Zam Salim, the Berties, Peter Baynton, Nick Whitfield, Scott Graham and Michael Pearce.

Since the early ground-breaking GMAC commissions, DigiCult films have been nominated for BAFTA and BIFA awards, the Golden Bear (Berlin), EIFF’s McLaren Animation Award, the Silver Lion (Venice) and many other prestigious international awards.

Looking forward, DigiCult will continue to push its talent, scripts and budgets to deliver great stories for the screen.