Festival top spot for film honouring talented little sister

A year later, Leah told Louise she was planning to release Bel’s debut album.

“And I said, do you want a documentary to go along with that? She said, yes, please.”

That was four years ago, and the resulting film, Bel, has just closed the Edinburgh International Film Festival and will tour Scottish cinemas before being screened on the BBC.

For Louise, access to the archive of personal videos was invaluable.

“It was really important to give Bel the opportunity to speak for herself since she’s not here now,” she says.

“I’d seen a couple of tiny clips of her video diary that she’d actually filmed herself watching.

“And I always wondered, where’s that tape? We did a lot of searching and we found it in a camera.”