Ninian Doff makes his feature film debut with Get Duked!. The movie is currently playing on Amazon Prime.  

This film tells a story about four teenagers who go on a mission to complete the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. The program encourages teamwork, foraging, as well as orienteering. However these kids are eager to get out to the Scottish Highlands to smoke weed. 

The Duke of Edinburgh Award is an annual event where a quarter of a million teens from Britain and Australia participate. Most people are not aware of this event and Ninian introduces it in an idiotic and humorous way. He personally completed the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and won the Bronze medal. 

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Doff is an award winning writer and director from Scotland. His resume consists of many accolades including the UK Music Awards, a D&AD Pencil Award for Direction, Saatchi and Saatchi’s Cannes New Directors’ Showcase as well as the OneDotZero’s New British Talent for videos. These music videos include Run the  Jewels, Miike Show (“Genghis Khan”), Chemical Brothers among others. In addition to that, his comedy short film, Cool Unicorn Bruv, has been viewed in more than 50 festivals worldwide and won the Jury and Audience Award at Depic’T’s Brief Encounters Short Film Festival. 

I conducted a quick Zoom chat with the writer and director to discuss the making of his debut film. By the way, he clarified what he meant when he previously said he wanted to break the mold of UK filming by making a funny, entertaining at the same time politically motivating film for all ages. 

Follow Ninian Doff on Instagram @niniandoff and Twitter @NinianDoff 

Source: LRM Online Exclusive