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Title: MA BOY

Reference number: 7610

Date: 2006

Director: d. Amy Neil

Sponsor: UK Film Council, Scottish Screen

Producer: Pamela Nelson

Production company: GMAC, La Belle Allee Productions

Sound: sound

Original format: HDCam

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 10.00 mins

Description: Life is difficult enough for 15 year old Isla, living in cramped conditions with her mother, boyfriend and baby boy. Tensions start to rise when mum Ali starts flirting with boyfriend Gav. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films, New Talent, Best of Scottish Shorts 2006]

Comment from director, Amy Neil: ""I had an idea brewing about a love triangle for a long time and kept thinking about the claustrophobic situation the three of them are in. I wanted to look at relationships that were stuck and had nowhere positive to go. Casting was very interesting. Once Shirley Henderson had said yes I wanted to cast a daughter who would look very similar to her. Caroline, the casting director, came in to the office one day very flustered saying she had just chased a girl down the street. Luckily she came into for a casting and was so perfect it was uncanny. She had the perfect look." [from BBC Film Network website, no longer online]

DigiCult: A low-budget digital film project that creates a talent pool of twenty directors, writers, producers and crafts-people. The aim is to encourage experimentation and innovation within the digital medium. Five short films are made per year with budgets of up to £5,000.

Credits: UK Film Council Glasgow Media Access Centre present A Digicult Project in association with Scottish Screen

Ali Shirley Henderson
Isla Lynn Graham
Gav Chris Alexander
w. and d. Amy Neil
d. ph. Philip Robertson
p. designer AnnMarie McKenna
casting d. Caroline Stewart
ed. Scott McCartney
sd. designer John Cobban
sd. rec. Chris Campion
costume designer Anna Robbins
make-up designer Julie Cain
French woman Nathalie Cadiet
French man Mark Rees
baby boy Dylan Gardner
voiceover artists Jordan McCurrach, Allision Peckham
school children Pupils of Kirkudbright Academy
ass. p. Karen Smyth
first ass. d. Marisa Privitera
runners Richard Harris, Mark Melville, Julia Macbeth
art dept. / lighting ass. Stephen Carney
camera operator Steven Gardner
camera ass. Grant Wragg, Neil McCormack, Cameron Hume
grip Robert Etherson
boom operator John Dinning
dubbing ass. Travis Reeves
ed. ass. Nikki McChristie
online ed. Guido Schneider
audio post production The Base
offline facilities La Belle Allee Productions Ltd.
post production / camera equipment JAe Ltd.
add. camera equipment Hammerhead TV
grip equipment Panavision
lighting equipment Lee Lighting
catering Masterpiece

For GMAC
p. Karen O'Hare
ass. p. Ciara Barry
technical support William Summers
d. of GMAC Dale Corlett

For Scottish Screen
short film exec. Julia Caithness

For UK Film Council
project co-ordinator Paul Hewlett

Filmed on location in Dumfries and Galloway

Special thenks to Andrew Bonner

Film makers would like to thank South West Scotland Screen Commission, Mark Geddes, The Katrin Cartlidge Foundation, David Wilkinson, Hamilton Hodell, Scottish Seabird Centre, Habitat, Hazel's Antiques, Carly McPhee, Sheelagh Dunlop, Simoin Gardner and Nicki Marsh, Peter Widdop, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Kirkudbright Academy, The People of Kirkudbright.

exec. p. Paul Welsh and Caroline Cooper Charles

With special thanks to La Belle Allee Productions, South West Scotland Screen Commission

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 and GMAC MMVI