From Scotland with Love is a documentary feature film produced by Grant Kier, Heather Croall and Mark Atkin and directed by Virginia Heath, soundtracked by an original studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote (Kenny Anderson).

The film was commissioned as part of the Cultural Festival accompanying the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

[3] The album was produced by David McAulay and released on 21 July 2014 on Domino Recording Company.

[6] Director Virginia Heath was commissioned to create a documentary film, featuring Scottish archive footage, to coincide with the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Kenny Anderson was subsequently approached to craft its soundtrack, whilst recovering from a broken leg, looking forward to the birth of his child,[2] and experiencing the potential collapse of his long-running record label, Fence.

So I had to hope that what I'd seen in these short films was worthy of writing a song about – and if I'd gone off piste a bit she'd be able to go back and find things that didn't make certain lyrics stand out like a sore thumb.

[1] Heath pitched for the project alongside her partner Grant Keir and Heather Croall and Mark Atkin in response to an open call for submissions.

On choosing to work with King Creosote, Heath said: "We came to Kenny because we felt he had a great storytelling ability in his lyrics.

"The themes are broadly love and loss, work and leisure, resistance and immigration, fighting for justice," she says.

"[2] Heath sent Anderson a storyboard broken down into three-minute sections showing the different storylines she wanted to pursue.

"[4] Vignettes include miners smoking, couples skating on frozen rivers, a sandwich-board boy advertising Auchtermuchty Flower Show, shipworkers, children being drilled in gasmask wearing, a bombed-out classroom,[7] the old industrial banks of the Clyde, trams going to Scotstoun and Partick, milkmen, cranes, the dead landmark of Ravenscraig steel works,[2] tanks in George Square, and dancing at the Barrowlands.

The album also features musical contributions from Admiral Fallow's Louis Abbott and Kevin Brolly, Meursault's Pete Harvey and Kate Miguda, and The Delgados' Emma Pollock.

"[9] The track "Miserable Strangers" features a reprise of the chorus from "678"; a song which previously appeared on the studio album KC Rules OK (2005).

A full re-recording of "678" appears during the course of the film, and is included on the deluxe edition of From Scotland from Love.