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Title: ACROSS THE WATERS

Reference number: 7259

Date: 2004

Director: d. Sana Bilgrami

Sponsor: BBC Scotland and Bridging the Gap [Scottish Screen, Docspace, Angus Digital Media Centre, Scottish Enterprise Tayside]

Producer: Sana Bilgrami, Joel Venet

Production company: Video in Pilton

Sound: sound

Original format: DigiBeta

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 28.10 mins

Description: In 1955, a young woman emigrated from Pakistan to the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Fifty years and three generations on, a testing new journey begins. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Scottish Short Films 2004"]

Part of Season 1 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Journeys".

See also Sana Bilgrani's website at http://www.blanko.org.uk/sana.htm [last accessed 27/1/2010]

Video copy of this title is held by Napier University, School of Creative Industries.

Shown at the May 2005 Commonwealth Film Festival in Manchester and at Britspotting in Berlin, Basel and Leipzig during April/May 2005. Also shown at: Feb/March 2005 Bridging the Gap Screenings: Journeys; November 2004 Sheffield International Documentary Festival; October 2004 47th International Leipzig Festival of Documentary and Animation.

Credits: With grateful thanks to Hashmat Mohammed, Sama Amjad, Miriam Amjad, Nellum Amjad, Sabir Amjad, Christina Morrison, Coisir An Rubha, Free Church of Scotland, Stornoway, Lewis Retirement Centre.

Thanks also to Stornoway Trust, Stornoway Pier Trust, Margaret MacKelvie, Comataidh Craolaidh Gaidhlig, Femi Folorunso, Scottish Arts Council

camera John MacKinnon
add. camera Sana Bilgrami
sd. rec. Marcelo de Oliveira
m. Phamie Gow
sd. design Marcelo de Oliveira
dubbing mixer Bronke Korda
ed. Sitar Rose
onlined ed. Graham Fitzpatrick
exec p. for Bridging the Gap Noe Mendell, Amy Hardie, Keith Alexander
exec p. For BBC Scotland Mary Margaret Murra0
p. Sana Bilgrami, Joel Venet

A Bridging the Gap production supported by the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, Scottish Enterprise Tayside, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace and Edinburgh College of Art

A Video in Pilton production for BBC Scotland. © BBC MMIV