The Lady with the Lamp

The Lady with the Lamp is a short film by Duncan Cowles made by accident whilst filming Pooling Together. Upon release in 2013 the film hit the front page of Youtube getting over 300,000 views overnight.

Synopsis / Logline

Living at home when you’re 21 has it’s downsides…

Press

It’s Nice that
ShadowPlay blo g
Redit
Madlabpost.com

Also featured in Sugru, College Humour, MSN.com, The Sun, The Evening News, The Daily Express, The Daily Star as well as various other sites and blogs that as of 2025 (when I refreshed my website) have all been taken down…

How did it come about?

Read my blog post from 2013 on the Scottish Documentary Institute’s blog.

Official Selection

PREMIERED at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012
SCREENED at New Juice Film Festival, Edinburgh 2012
SCREENED at Ickle Film Festival, Dundee 2012
SCREENED at East End Film Festival, London 2012
SCREENED at The Smalls Film Festival, London 2012
SCREENED at Stockport Student Film Festival 2012
SCREENED at Couch Film Fests 2012 *WINNER – Best Family Portrait
SCREENED at Short & Sweet Edinburgh 2012
SCREENED at London Short Film Festival 2013
SCREENED at Bar Shorts 2013
SCREENED at Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2013
SCREENED at Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2013
SCREENED at ICKLE Film Festival Opening Night 2013
SCREENED at Future Shorts Glasgow Sept 2013
SCREENED at Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London, Oct 2013
SCREENED at Write Shoot Cut, Edinburgh’s Filmhouse Nov 2013
SCREENED at DocHeads, London Feb, 2014
SCREENED at New Directors UK, London March 2014
SCREENED at Hidden Door Festival, Low Def Film, April 2014
SCREENED – Dunoon Film Festival 2015