William Aikman

Movies

Tummy Monster
Angry Neighbour (voice)
A self-centred tattoo artist’s fixation on getting a selfie with a famous client embroils him in a bizarre and dangerous game.
Winners
Sound Designer
In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.
Girl
Sound Designer
A love story between 24-year-old Grace and her 11-year old-daughter, Ama. It is a story of wonder and intimacy, of vulnerability and fear and of not being able to let go even when you know it’s the right thing to do. A dual coming-of-age that centres Grace’s inability to leave the past behind or let herself become the woman she could be against Ama’s burgeoning puberty and curiosity of the world. As Grace is forced to confront the truth of her past, she has to come to terms with her trauma and its effects on Ama.
The Yesterday
Sound Mixer
A disillusioned successful businesswoman struggling to find meaning in her privileged life, finds unexpected love in a forbidden affair.
Scuzz
Sound Designer
On a Saturday night in Glasgow, a bassist pursues a teenage boy through the streets for a stolen guitar, but ends up finding what she really needs – a sincere human connection.
Expensive Shit
Sound Designer
Tolu has a choice: save herself or save her friend. As a nightclub toilet attendant, she is both overlooked by and integral for a group of depraved men set on a hideous act.
Be Still My Beating Heart
Sound
Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind — one physically and the other psychologically.
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Sound
On a farm in County Wicklow, Lindsay is caring for her husband Paul, who, after suffering a brain aneurysm, is left in a perpetual loop of memory loss and repeating the same jokes over and over. Supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute, director Hannah Currie presents a truly moving portrait of caring, dedication and love.
Fiancées
Sound Designer
Cairo, a city of more than 20 million people, has recently gone through multiple political, cultural and economic upheavals, forcing Egyptian society to reinvent itself. In Egypt, people don't live on their own and it's only after they get married that they can leave their parent's home to create their own household. Whatever their intimate feelings might be, marriage is an inevitable step towards independence.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.