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Title: BORN TO RUN

Reference number: 7285

Date: 2006

Director: d. Scott Graham

Sponsor: Scottish Screen in association with Peacock Visual Arts

Producer: Alice Stilgoe

Production company: Brocken Spectre

Sound: sound

Original format: Digital Betacam

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 14.25 mins

Description: Set against the decline of the fishing industry in North East Scotland a 17-year-old boy racer and his girlfriend race to be alone together while the boy’s parents reflect separately on the choices they made 18 years before. BORN TO RUN is about how history repeats itself for young men and women in a hard-working town like Fraserburgh, and whether to regret falling in love if it means you never leave your hometown.

Screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2006. Starring local people in the lead roles.

Credits: Scottish Screen presents, in association with Peacock Visual Arts

Mum Linda Forman
Dad Martin Pearson
Son Derek Bond
Girlfriend Lianne Robertson
Young Dad in photographs Christopher Pearson
Young mum in photographs Jaclyn Strachan
Barmaid Lyn Reid
Men in bar James Rutter, John MacDonald, John Allan, Edward Thomson, Alexander Slessor, Ross Dowmie, David Irving, Steven Whyte, Gibert Henderson, Andrew Pirie
Leisure Centre kids Kay Ritchie, Linda-Ruth Summers, Denis Khotkin, Scott Coull, Billy Barron, Lisa Davidson, Sean Spicer, Chris Davidson, Andy Mitchell
Fish Factory workers Rachael Goodbrand, Carly Bowie, Pauline de Koning, Catriona Watson, Frank Kwely, Nerjus Dambaukas, Ritvars
Skalloway Park Kids John George Stephen, Stevebn Peck, Conrad Jack, Lloyd Jack, Euan Foreman, Camryn Forman, Andrew James Masson, Chritopher Clark, Clint Cassie

d. ph. Iain Dodds
sd. rec. Mark Deas, Chris Campion
make-up and costume designer Nicole Stafford
art d. Carrie Smith
film ed. Ian Waugh, Scott McCartney
camera ass. Jason Weidner, Andrew Harrison
wardrobe supervisor Yvonne Mullock
art dept. ass. Roseanne Kay Davidson
p. man. Clara Barry
1st ass. d. Lisa Baruffati
continuity Polly Markham
runners Sam Foley, Carly Bowie, Catriona Watson, Pauline de Koning
on-line ed. Guido Schneider
dubbing mixer John Cobban
dubbing ed. Travis Reeves
original music composed by Andrew Cruickshank
m. performed by Martin Duncan

Our very special thanks to Lynn Graham, Bill Graham, Suzanne Bond, Ian and Morag Jack, Nanny Stoopman, Peter Gray, Coll Hamilton, G. and J. Jack, Mark Forsyth and everyone at the Ship Inn, Jim Simpson and everyone at Watermill Garage, Graham Farquhar, Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners, Pat Innes and everyone at Banff and Buchan College, Doreen Gibson and everyone at the Dalrymple Hall, Allan Masson & Fraserburgh Swimming Pool, Alex Patience and the Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, Shane Strachan, Jemma Wilson, David Davidson, Kenneth J. King, Hazel MacDonald, Brad Morrison, David Quigley, William Quigley, Sarah MacGowan, Annemarie McKenna, Lee Hutcheon, Duane Hopkins, Joanna Clements, Kirsten J.B. Glover, David Smith and the good people of Fraserburgh.

Short film executives for Scottish Screen Julia Caithness, Becky Lloyd
co-producer Adam Proctor
associate p. Paul Welsh
p. Alice Stilgoe
w. and d. Scott Graham

Supported by the National Lottery through Scottish Screen. Grampian TV, Brocken Spectre, Peacock Visual Arts. © Brocken Spectre / Scott Graham MMVI