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Title: LONG HAUL

Reference number: 5967

Date: 2000

Director: d. Bob Blagden

Sponsor: Scottish TV, Grampian TV, Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund

Producer: Bob Blagden, Caroline Sinclair Kidd

Production company: Maverick TV

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 24.45 mins

Description: A lorry driver feeling isolated from his family and a woman with a troubling secret help each other to find out some answers on a journey to Land’s End. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2003"]

Note there are two versions of this title, the longer is 34.00 mins, meant for theatrical release. The shorter is 24.45 mins, and for television broadcast.

This film won a BAFTA award for the writer, Janet Paisley.

New Found Land commissions six digital 24-minute dramas for television broadcast and theatrical distribution. The scheme runs every two years.

Credits: Mac Gary Lewis
Woman Simone Lahbib
Big Ben Alan McQueen
The Fixer Desmond McNamara

w. Janet Paisley
ed. Niven Sinclair Howie
ph. Jerry Kelly
p. designer Caroline Grebbell
sd. Kenny Allen
casting d. Joan McCann
location managers Kier Roper Caldbreck, Naomi Liston
art d. Caroline Grebbell
make-up supervisor Catherine Muir
gaffer Derrick Ritchie
1st ass. d. David Gilchrist
2nd ass. d. Mike Queen
sc. superviser Lucy Enfield
p. ass. Kenneth MacDonald
p. accountants John McKain, Anita Turner
camera assistants Steven Mochrie
camera trainee Andrew Gardner
sd. trainee Sandy Miller
sparks George Geddes, Paul Shirley
art department trainee Tom Kitchen
rain effects Billy Mitchell
wardrobe superviser Caroline Grebbell
wardrobe trainee William Sutherland
cast driver Paul Campbell
truck driver Stewart Turpie
DV Unit driver Francois Gandolfi
d. ph. Jerry Kelly
ed. Niven Sinclair Howie
composer John Lunn
sd. rec. Kenny Allan
dubbing mixer Dave Murricane
production executive Jonnie Turpie
ass. p. Clare Welch
executive producers Mark Grindle, Dan MacRae
p. Bob Blagden, Caroline Sinclair Kidd