Biography

His children are fluent in Gaelic.

He relocated to Skye in the 1990s with his family and his company, Young Films.

For me, the question is not why make a film in Gaelic but why not make a film in Gaelic? It seemed strange that a culture so full of storytelling didn't particularly have a tradition of cinema. I have never been to a cinema to see a film in Gaelic. There is plenty of Gaelic drama but it does seem to have suffered from stereotype. It tends to have been period works. There is a feeling that Gaelic is old-fashioned. I wanted to tackle that head-on.