TREEFELLERS
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Title: TREEFELLERS
Reference number: 7673
Date: 2004
Director: d. Sana Bilgrami
Sponsor: Scottish Television, Grampian Television and Scottish Screen
Producer: Robin MacPherson
Production company: Asylum Pictures
Sound: sound
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 24.00 mins
Description:
In 1942, nine hundred Belizean lumberjacks left the tropical rainforests of British Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland. Three of the men who stayed on after the war look back on their extraordinary lives. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2004"]
Part of 'This Scotland' documentary strand, broadcast on STV.
Nominated for BAFTA Scotland Best Television Documentary, 2004. Screened at Madrid Experimental Cinema Festival 2005, Madrid, Spain. Screened at International Human Rights Festival 2005, Glasgow, Scotland.
Credits:
With special thanks to the Tree Fellers: Amos Ford, Sam Martinez, Ernest Phillips, Eric Tathum, Alvin Tillet
And to: Conchita Campbell, Mary Martinez, Ellen Reid, Violet Rorstad, Jean Stevenson
film archive Imperial War Museum, London
photographic archive Amos Ford, Imperial War Museum London, Alvin Tillet, Clifford Waight
m. Marcelo de Oliveira
exec. p. Henry Eagles, Becky Lloyd, Agnes Wilkie
Thanks to James Brown, Jackie Simpson, Jack Tully-Jackson, Napier University
research Kamala Maniam
add. research Jayne Wilding
p. ass. Angus Ferguson
sd. Marcelo de Oliveira
camera Ian Dodds
online ed. Graham Fitzpatrick
dubbing mixer Rob Walker
ed. Sitar Rose
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