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Title: FROZEN ASSETS: An Operatic Chiller

Reference number: 7669

Date: 2003

Director: d. David Council

Sponsor: A Short Film Trading BBC Scotland in association with Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow

Producer: Marie Olesen, Karen Smyth

Production company: Eight and a Half

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.31 mins

Description: Inge´nue soprano Lucy Mackay outwits legendary tenor Benito Barolo, taking on the guise of opera heroines Carmen, Tosca and Brunhilde, to avoid becoming his next meal! [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2003"]

Subtitled ".... an operatic chiller". "Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings." -Ed Gardener (1905 - 1963)

Credits: words Lowri Garland
m. Stephen Adam
p. Marie Olesen, Karen Smyth
HD ph. Michael Brennan

"Il Barolo" Alan Oke
Lucy McKay Katherine Wiles

opera d. John Rooney
first waiting soprano Debbie Milligan
second waiting soprano Cheryl Chadha
costume designer Pamela Martin
costume supervisor Emma Tennant
p. designer Fiona Riddick
standby art d. Michael Barclay
art dept. ass. Susannah Wesley
makeup artist Nikki Brannan
hair stylist Andy Wong
fight co-ordinator James Fleming
camera operator Craig McKirdy
camera ass. Matt Pinder
key grip Gregor Tulloch
sd. rec. Louis Kramer
boom operators Derek Henderson, Davey Lees
gaffer John Duncan
electrician David Conroy
first ass. d. David Tawitt
second ass. d. Alona MacNicol
location man. Ed Smith
location ass. Rod Tamine
HD post production facilities The Farm, Dublin
ed. Nathan Nugent
ass. ed. Michelle Spillane
HD online Peter Haddon
sd. design John Cobban
dubbing mixer ass. Karen Muirhead
m. recording facilities Cava Studios
sd. engineer Robin Rankine
musicians Saida de Lyon, Robert Irvine, John Hall
off key soprano Lynn Whitaker
p. man. Lisa Baxter
p. co-ordinator Sandie Paterson
p. ass. Clare Morrison, Keira Stephenson
p. runner Liam Lockspeiser
sc. ed. Kate Croft
development exec. Tessa Sheridan, Phil Parker, Eleanor Roseblade
co-ordinator for 8.5 Angela Smith
p. accountant John McKain
producers for 8.5 Deboragh Keogh, Arabella Page Croft
exec. p. Paddy Higson

Special thanks David Collins at Samson Films, Scottish Opera, Duncan Williamson, Clutha Productions, Hammerhead Television Facilities (Scotland), Alan and Lesley MacFarlane, Autonomi, Rosemary at Grip House North, Michael Brennan, Jim Muotane, Binker.

[... various song credits...]

A Short Film Trading for BBC Scotland in association with Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow.

© Short Film Trading Limited 2002.