Rank is a 2002 fourteen-minute short film directed by David Yates.
[1] Producer Andrew O'Connell said "We first went to the London Production Fund who gave us the full grant of £15,000.
[2] In an interview with Film London, director David Yates stated that he "wanted to use non actors to tell the story, to create a reality.
He went on to say that he had "just finished a period drama called The Way We Live Now, which had taken me a year, and which was a very big production ... but fairly formal in many ways as a piece of work ... this [Rank] was an opportunity to just shake all of that off and get back to my roots.
"[3] Rank tells the story of a street gang that cross Glasgow to witness the arrival of a group of Somali refugees.