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Title: BUTTERFLY

Reference number: 7967

Date: 2007

Director: d. Yulia Mahr

Sponsor: The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Sonja Henrici

Production company: Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen and Emigre Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.19 mins

Description: This rare and intimate portrait explores a young women's perspective about living with albinism - a melanin deficiency which has often made her an outsider. [synopsis from "New Films, New Talent: Best of Scottish Shorts 2007]

Part of Season 4 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "White".

View this film online at http://www.docscene.org/butterfly [last accessed 26/2/2010]

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents a Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen and Emigre Films

Special thanks to Gemma Sherry and her family, Bill, Julie and Marcus

d. ph. Nyika Jancso
camera ass. Filip Syczynski, Danjel Bugeja, Freddie Bonifanti
jimmy jib operator Aaron Boucher
sd. rec. Chris Campion
m. Max Richter
dub and sd. design John Cobban
foley Travis Reeves
stills Stephen Rasmussen, Filip Syczynski
p. man. Finlay Pretsell
p. ass. Julie McIntosh
online ed. Simon Blakeley
ed. Bill Diver
w. and d. Yulia Mahr
short film exec. for Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd
exec. p. Noe Mendelle

Many thanks to Robin Spinks and The Albinism Fellowship www.albinism.org.uk; Michael McGowan and NOAH; Staff and pupils at Newmilns Primary School, Lynn McLean, Alex Calder and Sharon Mobey, Mrs Caffrey and pupils in Class 5; Brin Johnston and all at Loudon Academy; Ross Sanders, Carla McCabe, Georgios Machtsiras, Lorna Bain at the CSE Pool at the University of Edinburgh; EICA: Ratho, Nic Crawshaw, Glenn Gordon, Simon Tait, Julie MacSporran; Kevin Thom at Dobbie's Butterfly World; Roberta McLaren and Craig Millar at The Glasgow Nautical College; Robert Walker, Tamara nvan Strijthem at Screen Academy at Napier University; Karen Smyth and Vince Hunter at La Belle Allee Production Company; Rick Guidotti of Positive Exposure; Virginia Smalls of Golden Child; John McCarney, Ron Robertson, Bill Outch, Alan Jones, Stuart Scott, Lara Kemp, Kirsty Mitchell, Aan Brown, Amy Hardie, Jackie Rayner, Fiona Reid, Laura Clarke, Marc Isaacs, Peter Symes

Supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute