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Title: FLUNG

Reference number: 8010

Date: 2007

Director: d. Fiona Walton

Sponsor: UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and supported by the National Lottery through Scottish Screen

Producer: Andrew T. Surry

Production company: GMAC

Sound: sound

Original format: DVCProHD

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.12 mins

Description: Flung explores the moment when the worlds of a tormented young boy and an alienated old man collide with unforeseen consequences for them both. [synopsis from "New Films, New Talent: Best of Scottish Shorts 2007]

DigiCult: A low-budget digital film project that creates a talent pool of twenty directors, writers, producers and crafts-people. The aim is to encourage experimentation and innovation within the digital medium. Five short films are made per year with budgets of up to £5,000.

Credits: Boy Grant Gillan
Man Sean Scanlan

w. Fiona Walton
exec. p. Karen O'Hare
d. ph. Scott Ward
ed. Bert Eeles
p. designer Rebecca Dover
ass. p. designer Jo Rogers
costume designer Louise Allan
costume supervisor Emma Togneri
hair and make-up Nicole Stafford
sc. development Sarah Tripp
sc. continuity Dorothy Friend
sd. designer John Cobban
sd. rec. Stephen McBride
colourist Ian Ballantyne
p. man. Claire MacKenzie
focus puller Gordon McMillan
2nd ass. camera Damien Leitch
3rd ass. camera Fraser Rice
1st ass. d. Gillian Tod
3rd ass. d. Zoe Smith
director's ass. Zoe Smith
p. ass. Car Lindsay
stills ph. Robert Brady
runners Stuart Cadenhead, Jack Archer, Anne Nicholson
catering Portofino Catering
security Drum Security

Special thanks to Hopscotch Films, John Archer and Victoria Evans, Andy Cooper at Movietech, Jim Gangel at Drum Security, The Big Blue, Mark Thomson, Janis Watt, Majella McNeary, Annemarie, Michael, Jordan and Grant Gillen

For GMAC:
d. of GMAC Dale Corlett
short film ass. Ciara Barry and Lindsay Goodall
Thanks to all the GMAC staff and trainees. GMAC is core funded by Glasgow City Council.
For UK Film Council Julia Caithness
For Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd

Made with the support of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and supported by the National Lottery through Scottish Screen

© UK Film Council and GMAC MMVII

Shotlist: ‘Flung’ explores the moment when the worlds of a tormented young boy and an alienated old man collide with unforeseen consequences for them both. Shot as black and white, ‘Flung’ is a timeless short – the ‘everyman’ and ‘everyboy’ quality being far more important than geographical and modern references. Dipping in and out of a busy City Soundscape, the audience is carried along on two separate journeys that become entwined as one. Sympathy shifts from one character to another as the Boys interaction with the Old Man becomes increasingly cruel. An emotional story that brings together two not so very different lives.