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Title: SLIDE

Reference number: 7087

Date: 2001

Director: d. Jerry Kelly

Sponsor: Scottish Screen

Producer: Bill Clark

Production company: Top Left Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 15.03 mins

Description: A dark comedy about motherhood, and the difficulties of letting go.

Awards: Jim Poole Award shortlist 2002, Audience Award Hull 2001.

Credits: ed. James Hamilton
composer Donald Shaw
p. designer Adam Squires
w. and d. Jerry Kelly

Mother Louise Goodall
Father in Bed Lewis Holden
Baby Rosie Quigley
Woman at Crossing Pamela Kelly
Father in Park Ford Kiernan
Boy on Swing Luka Coutts
Dog Man (whistle) Alex Howden
Dog Man (kiss) Don Coutts
Dog Man (leap) Mike Travis
Cheeky Boy Gerard Killen
Boy with Fag Robert Muir
Party Girls Angela Burns, Ashleigh Beckett, Ashley McDonald, Ashleigh Nicholas
Unhelpful Woman Sheila Latimer
Husband Norman Fraser
Mother with Children Ingi Karlsdottir
Children Rico Piacentini, Marco Piacentini, Georg Thomasson, Amelia Sinclair-Kidd
Girls on Slide Ruby Kelly, Toni Piacentini, Sally Clark
Breat Feeding Double Diane Main
Shocked Woman Eileen Morrison
"On Children" Vocals Alyth McCormack

dubbing mixer Derek Livesey
editbox grader Ian Ballantyne
first ass. d. Bill Clark
second ass. d. Su Bainbridge
third ass. d. Morris Milne
production co-ordinator Jill Pryde
production secretary Emma Brown
production runner Gillian Todd
floor runner Simon McKerracher
locations Neil McMahon
art d. Robina Nicholson
construction man. Wilson Cooper
stand-by props Jason Orr
props Vincent Hunter
dressing props Zam Salim
art dept. ass. Christine Gibson, Nolan Wall
trainee Jenny Alexander
continuity Karen Wood
storyboard artist Alan Reid
d. ph. Jake Elly
focus pullers Derrick Peters
clapper loader Andrew Gardener, Julia Robinson
camera trainee Tony Kay
grip Lucien Grieve
crane rigger Neil Thom
extra operating Lewis Buchanan
sd. rec. Martin Belshaw, Peter Brill
boom op Graham McCormick
lighting gaffer Harriet Arthur
best boy Paul Shirley, Steve Arthur
genny op Ewan Epton
make-up designer Claire McAndrew
make-up artist Isobel Butler
make-up ass. Audrey Young
costume designer Harriet Edmonds
wardrobe ass. Lynn Haughton
safety advisor Michael Scott-Law
dog handler Frank McCann
catering Resourceful Cooks, Ali Robinson
accountant Brian Murray
aston op David Gilmour
film camera equipment GHS (Scotland) Mike Ellen and David Kelly
lights and genny Lee Lighting Donny Campbell
grip and lights Lighttrack Steve Arthur
camera van Grip House North Rosemary Burt
crane Hammerhead Scotland Brian McCormack
props Propworks Eddie McDaid and Sandy Reid
labs Todd AO Jon Gray
digital transfer Swiss Effects

"On Children" - lyrics from 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran. Muisc by Ysaye M. Barnwell © 1981 Barnwell's Notes Publishing (BMI / Harry Fox Agency, Westbury Music Ltd.)

Supported by the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund.
Inspired by Sarah Barclay

Special thanks to Dan MacRae, Steve McIntyre, Desmond Kelly, Siobhan O'Connell, Alex Hutton at Interactive Office Ltd., Simon Mallinson at MTP Ltd., Peter Howson, Lisa Sweet, Gillian Quigley, Catrina Grant at South Lanarkshire Council, Jane Skinner, Fiona Kurturan, Kirsten Deering, Jimmy Gardener, Tom Gallagher at SMG, Plato Scotland, Perry Costello at Hands On, Maria Brincombe at XTS Ltd., Scot at Prop Portfolio Ltd., David Piper and Rozanne at The Iron Bed Co., Sheila Sayer at Arnold Clark, Anne Guidera at Kodak, Elspeth at Grassroots, Sharon, Calum and Gill at Edit 123

Thanks to Gillian Hutton, Norman Button, Jackie Troy at Jeelie Piece, Teressa Rennie at Castlemilk, Andrea Calderwood, Kay Sheridan, Carolynne Sinclair-Kidd, Gillian Berrie, Fiona Murphy, Steven Mochrie, Ann Swan. No thanks to the Glasgow Film Office. La Luta Continua.

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