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Title: BLACK SHEEP

Reference number: 7279

Date: 2006

Director: d. Paul Hamilton

Sponsor: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre

Producer: Caira Barry

Production company: Little Pictures

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Edinburgh based film-maker Paul Hamilton wonders what it is to be a black sheep and takes the audience on an emotional journey through the filmmaker's youth and the rocky relationship with his family using archive footage and insightful interviews. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films, New Talent, Best of Scottish Shorts 2006]

Shown at the Leith Short Film Festival, 2006 - where the filmmaker describes it as "A documentary about the life of a very bad lad! Paul Hamilton.

Credits: Thanks and respect to my family Robert Hamilton, Jennifer Hamilton, Robin Hamilton, Julie McMahon and John Welsh for all the family videos.
"The Axeman" written and performed by Silver Bullit with permission from NONS Records Sweden and Warner Chappell Publishing.

camera Glenda Rome
ed. Melanie Hamilton
story development Sarah Tripp
p. Caira Barry
exec. p. Karen O'Hare
GMAC director Dale Corlett

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 Lottery Funded, Scottish Screen Lottery Funded, GMAC, BBC Scotland.

Copyright UK Film Council and GMAC 2006.