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Robbie Moffat was born and educated in Glasgow. He studied English Literature and Film at Newcastle University, and is a published poet and author, as well as a dramatist and screenwriter. In the eighties he received several Arts Council of Great Britain awards for literature and drama.
In 1980 he founded Palm Tree Books. In 1984 he founded and administered the Newcastle Festival Fringe, and in 1987 expanded the Swansea Festival Fringe into the largest arts festival in Wales. Afterwards, Robbie produced seven of his own theatre plays in Newcastle and Glasgow. In 1990, he moved into producing for the children's market, and staged and wrote the material for more than five hundred children's theatre performances.
In 1995, Robbie extended Palm Tree into a film production company. As head of development and business affairs for Palm Tree, Robbie currently has written thirteen of the fourteen feature films he has directed.
Robbie has also penned commissioned work for Hollywood companies. As a member of BAFTA, and The Directors Guild of Great Britain, he is a past member of the Society of Authors and British Equity. He is also well travelled, having visited more than eighty countries.
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Mairi Sutherland worked firstly as a freelance radio reporter with the BBC Scotland. She developed a successful career as a documentary features writer, presenter, interviewer and editor for radio programmes broadcast on BBC Scotland and Radio 5. She moved on to working for BBC Scotland Television as researcher on the national BBC network programme First Light. In 1995, she moved into the independent film sector, working with the Clan Wallace who provided the fighting extras and technical assistance in the Oscar winning film Braveheart. Mairi also worked on the making of The Bruce starring Oliver Reed.
In March 1996 she joined Palm Tree Productions to work on publicity and marketing. This role became that of producer on Palm Tree's short films. Mairi produced her first feature film Love The One You're With in October 1999. She has since co- produced 14 films for Palm Tree. She wrote and produced her first screenplay Red Rose, in 2004. Her directorial debut will made with her screenplay Photoshoot in 2008.
Mairi has a Honours BA in History and Politics from Stirling University. She was a nominee for Scotswoman of the year (1981) for community work with students. She is a shareholder and director of Palm Tree Ents and a member of British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Palm Tree, a British film company, was formed in 1995. The company now has an established track record in independent film-making, having completed fourteen feature films in a period from 1999 to 2008.
Within the company, the producers Mairi Sutherland and Robbie Moffat come from a broadcast and drama background respectively. From 1996 Palm Tree made numerous short films, and by April 1999 was in a position to shoot its first feature film entitled Love The One You're With. The rest is history.
The catalogue of films listed in these pages have in the main been directed by Robbie Moffat and produced by Mairi Sutherland. They are all British classified films and are in the English language
This website is designed to knit together these films as a body of work. It is our hope that it generates a renewed interest in some of the earlier films and provides a snapshot of the films being made by Palm Tree on an ongoing basis.