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Title: CAN'T STOP BREATHING

Reference number: 7286

Date: 2004

Director: d. Amy Neil

Sponsor: Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, South West Scotland Screen Commission and the Stewartry Area Committee

Producer: Ravinder Basra

Production company: Big Nose Films

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.55 mins

Description: A delicate portrait of a mother and daughter's strained existence together in the Scottish countryside. Their relationship is charged with anger, tenderness and defiance as they struggle to find a sense of harmony. Their world has its own timeless desolation that subtly corresponds with the surrounding natural world. It is Daisy's birthday and the anticipated celebrations gradually crumble throughout the day. Following a series of traumatic incidents Louise nears breaking point. Yet, she eventually finds solace in the warmth of one look of love from her mother.

Filmed entirely on location in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Credits: A Big Nose Production in association with Scottish Screen

Jane Lapotaire as Daisy
Lynsey Baxter as Louise
Jake the Postie as himself
Geraldine's Voice Antoinette Sym
d. ph. Ian Dodds
focus puller Jason Weidner
clapper loader Benjamin Kracun
gaffer David Manfield
electrician Norman Hill
1st ass. d. Ted Mitchell
script supervisor Karen Fryer
costume designer Anna Robbins
p. ass. Alisa Anderson, Maria Pujol-Valls
p. accountant Tom Hendry
p. designer Mike McLoghlin
art dept. ass. Angus Neil, Pete Smith
art dept. graphics Ben Cormack
fabrics by J.D. McDougalls
sd. rec. Becky Thomson
boom operator Fraser R. McFadyen
dubbing mixer John Cobban
ass. dubbing mixer Craig Aitchison
ed. Bert Eeles
composer Ben Foster
colourist Ian Ballantyne
sc. consultant Marilyn Milgrom
diver Albert Smith
drivers William Bartholomew, Brain Edgar, John Hillsley, Jimmy McKenna, Louise McTurk, John Neil, Bob Peace.

Thanks to GCAT for their bus.

catering She She's 'Can't Stop Eating', Agnes Holden, May Chalmers, John Chalmers, Kenmure Arms Hotel
suppliers Girthon Water, MT Wine Cellars, Co-Op, Irving's Bakery
accommodation Anne & John Maxwell, Cathy Agnew
locations Stewartry Forest Enterprise, Abernethy Trust, Garroch Estate
Camera equipment by VFG
Sound design at The Base
Online editing at ARC Facilities

Special thanks to Shelagh Meil, Iain Steele, Nic Roper-Caldbeck, Anna Neil, Bee Rowlatt, Heather Fletcher, Simon McKeown, Belle Doyle, Hunter's Boots, Becky Lloyd, Robert Johnstone

p. Ravinder Basra
w. and d. Amy Neil

filmed entirely on location in Galloway, South West Scotland. Supported by the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, South West Scotland Screen Commission and the Stewartry Area Committee. © MMIV