Ideas worth spreading

"It's not amazing enough"

Duncan Cowles |

TED2018

• April 2018

The pressures of having to make an amazing film sent this deadpan, deep-voiced, award-winning filmmaker into a crippling spiral of self-doubt and comic indecision. (Credits: Music by Stillhead; Executive Producer, TED2018 Film Program: Sinéad McDevitt; Director of Production and Video Operations, TED: Mina Sabet)

The pressures of having to make an amazing film sent this deadpan, deep-voiced, award-winning filmmaker into a crippling spiral of self-doubt and comic indecision. (Credits: Music by Stillhead; Executive Producer, TED2018 Film Program: Sinéad McDevitt; Director of Production and Video Operations, TED: Mina Sabet)

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

About the speaker

Duncan Cowles

Documentary filmmaker

Duncan Cowles is a BAFTA Scotland Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose short films "The Lady with the Lamp," "Radio Silence." "Directed by Tweedie," "Isabella," "Alexithymia" and "Taking Stock" have been selected for various film festivals internationally winning a selection of awards and gaining significant online exposure through platforms such as Short of the Week, Vimeo Staff Picks, BFI Player, It’s Nice That and more.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.