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Title: BUTTERFLY MAN, the

Reference number: 7528

Date: 1996

Director: d. Barry Ackroyd

Sponsor: Channel 4, Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund in association with Scottish Screen

Producer: Robin MacPherson

Production company: Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 25.50 mins

Description: An unemployed ex-coal miner becomes a recluse, obsessed with breeding butterflies in the garden of his home in a mining village near Edinburgh. Family and friends are frustrated in their attempts to encourage him out of his self-imposed exile and his teenage son, angry and bewildered by his father’s withdrawal, is finally driven to extreme action in a bid to regain his father’s attention and affection. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Catalogue of Short Films 1993 - 1999 "Kicking up a Storm"]

Production file held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: Cast
Tom Reid Ian Hanmore
Francis Reid Mark D'Urso
Carol Reid Lynne Killin
Duncan Alex Howden
John John Yule
The Trainer Geraldine McNulty
The Lecturer Kern Falconer
Donna Donna Martin
Callum Callum Johnston
Darren Michael Nolan
Young Francis Andrew Aitchison

Crew
1st ass. d. Gus McLean
2nd ass. d. Karen McConnell
3rd ass. d. Jonathan Farmer
sc. supervisor Avril Watt
p. accountant Laura Norris
p. ass. Angus Ferguson
p. secretary Suzanne Allan
camera operator Baz Irvine
focus puller Lewis Buchan
clapper loader Alick Fraser
camera trainee Jaspreet Bal
still ph. Ann Collins
gaffer Donny Campbell
lighting electrician Mick Carr
lighting trainee David Downie
sd. rec. Mike Lax
sd. ass. Tristan Anika
sd. trainee Alistair Mason
ass. ed. Alex Broad
ed. trainee Giles Burgess
ass. art d. Doug Chatham
art. dept. ass. Laurel Weir
standby props Tony Sheridan
butterfly wrangler Dave Stewart
wardrobe supervisor Carole Millar
wardrobe trainee Ruth Sinclair
make-up artist Julie Mackay
make-up trainee Nicky Knowles
exec. p. Robin Gutch, Catherine Aitken
dubbing mixer Cy Jack
composer Tom Bancroft
designer Tom Sayer
ed. David Gibson
p. supervisor Susie Brown

Written by Jimmy Gardner from a story by Robin MacPherson
p. Robin MacPherson
d. and ph. Barry Ackroyd

Thanks to Lynn Aitken, Birkhill Clay Mine, The Bridges Project, Edinburgh Residencies, Edinburgh Video Training Company, Lothian and Borders Police, Monktonhall Colliery Ltd., Scottish Broadcast and Film Training, Scottish Mining Museum, The communities of Winchburgh and Broxburn.

An Edinburgh Film Workshop Trust Production for Channel 4 and the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund in association with the Scottish Film Production Fund.
© EFWT 1996.