In the seventies,
Michael was involved with the BERWICK STREET FILM CO-OPERATIVE
making political films such as IRELAND BEHIND THE WIRES.
Michael
has written and directed over 20 documentaries, including
:
MELVYN THE MAGNIFICIENT (aka LET'S HIT THE STREETS)
2005
Melvyn is an African Don Quixote from the mixed-race community in South Africa. He has one passion: to make the Cape Carnival bigger than Rio. His mother, who taught him all the music, dies days before the parade. Some of his children who have escaped the ghetto hate Carnival and oppose Melvyn; others who are still gangsters love it.
Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2005
'The Human Righs Award'
"Raeburns' film is a rollicking run-in with the Cape Minstrel Carnival in all its glorious complications."
Andrew Whaley 'Festival Daily'
ZIMBABWE COUNTDOWN
Michael's view of the crisis ravaging his country.
3 years in the making.
FIRST PRIZE - AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MILAN 2003
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION, 2003
Double-bill with "RHODESIA COUNTDOWN" More information
SUNDAY SWEET
SUNDAY (30 mins X 5)
Production: SFP,
France & ITV UK
Distribution: European TV
The family today
- What is it? A Catholic tailor in Milan with ten kids,
a one-parent artist in Berlin, poor pig farmers in Cornwall,
a rich French family of landowners.
"A major
contribution to the ITV network" The Times
"Informative
and entertaining" Evening Standard
"The
families are well-chosen...pertinent life-styles"
Le Figaro, Paris
UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (52 minutes x 5)
Production: BBC
- Island Video
Distribution: International TV
The heart of
modern African music today in the cities of Africa.
"An excellent
series.. just the right balance between entertainment and
information." Time Out, UK.
"Honest
celebration of the sounds of the continent" Sunday
Telegraph, UK
"Openly
faces the problem of keeping the local music pure in the
face of cultural imperialism" 7 Days, UK
THE PLASTIC SHAMROCK (60 mins)
Production: Vaughan
Films, London & WDR, Cologne.
Distribution: European TV
A hard-hitting
exposure about the effects of the 1960's industrial revolution
on Ireland's society, culture and politics.
"A model
of clarity, intelligence and journalistic integrity"
Humo, Brussels
"An important
film well worth seeing" Helsinki Sanomat
"A most
illuminating film" Kolniche Runschau, Germany
THIS IS RENEE (30mins) ITS IN MY BLOOD (30mins) THIS GAME OF GOLF (55mins)
Production: Chris
Lawrence/ATV, London 1975
Distribution: European TV/Howard Hughes TV,USA
Narrators Sean Connery/Caroll Baker
Camera Walter Lassally
Music - London Orchestra
International television sales
Prestigeous production
shot worldwide, about the ambitions of sports champions
and how they cope with pressure and high living.
"Lively
and colourful" Evening News, UK
"Unique - a spendid marriage of script and picture"
Daily Mail, UK
THE MOVEMENT MOVEMENT
Production: D.
Knight, London/ Gallerie Denise Renee, Paris.
Co-producer Michael Raeburn
Music: Thin Lizzy
Distribution: International TV, selected cinemas.
The kinetic art
movement in Paris with Vasarely, Agam, Yvarel.
