After directing several short films with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland funding, Fitzpatrick studied screenwriting at Screen Academy Scotland developing the script for his first short film as writer and director.
Young people from Edinburgh's care homes and housing schemes shared the screen with professionals such as Tam Dean Burn.
Shot in December 2009 with financial backing from Creative Scotland,[1] the film premiered at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh the following year.
[3] In 2014, Fitzpatrick made another short film Colours, about an incarcerated gay teenager trying to survive behind bars, working in Scotland's HM Prison Polmont, with inmates given acting roles.
I am personally delighted that Colours has been recognised in this way, it is a testament to the hard work put in by the entire team.