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Title: MAGGIE'S CENTRES

Reference number: 8043

Date: 2005

Director: d. Murray Grigor

Sponsor: Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, Dunard Fund, The Lighthouse

Producer: Phoebe Grigor

Production company: Viz Ltd.

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.13 mins

Description: Innovative cancer care centres in Scotland are being built by some of the world’s most celebrated architects which are at once challenging, spiritual and homely, inspired by Maggie Keswick Jencks. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films, New Talent, Best of Scottish Shorts 2006]

See also ref. 7660

The Maggie's Centres were the idea of Maggie Keswick Jencks. They are built in hospital grounds near to cancer care units to offer support and counselling for patients and family in a non-hospital setting. The first was built in Edinburgh in 1996. Others soon followed in the Scottish cities of Glasgow, Dundee and Inverness, Kirkcaldy, and another recently in Lanarkshire. Maggie Keswick Jencks, famous around the world for her daring garden designs and married to the architect Charles Jencks, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988. It was her experience as a patient that inspired Maggie's Centres. [http://www.scotlandistheplace.com/stitp/2042.1.1826.html]

Credits: ph. Douglas Campbell, Ian Dodds, Terry Hopkins, Seamus McGarvey, Gavin Turnbull
sd. Paul Nathan, Guy Satchwell, Mike Thomas
grip Mark Dorris
animation John Butler
m. Jonathan Dove
ed. Cassandra McGrogan, Lou Kiddier
p. Phoebe Grigor
Thanks to Greenroom Films

Shotlist: [shot-listed from VHS VC8043, manual control track]

credits - title sequence - title with images of Maggie's Centres - Maggie Keswick Jencks - Landscape architect and writer talking to Clare Keswick, Maggie's mother about her experiences at the time of her cancer diagnosis - collage of still images of hospital interiors - Professor Bob Leonard - Oncologist, Edinburgh 1985 - 2001 talking to Laura Lee - Chief Executive, Maggie's Centres about talking to Jencks in hospital environment, with int and ext gvs of hospital (4.09) talking head Marcia Blakenham - Creative Director, Maggie's Centres about Jencks' attitude to cancer treatment environments, with gvs of exercise class at centre - talking head Lee about Jencks' offer of financial help - talking head Charles Jencks - Architect, writer and Maggie's husband about idea for first Maggie's Centre - still images of stable block and conversion plans - Lee and Leonard talking about initial architects' plans - Richard Murphy - Architect, Maggie's Edinburgh talking about Maggie's advice for centre design - ext and int gvs of Maggie's Centre at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Murphy and Charles Jencks talk about design ideas - patients and family talk about interior environment of building, gvs of groups of people inside, talking and eating at table - ext shots of building, garden and sculpture (10.24) ext gv of Western Infirmary in Glasgow and Maggie's Glasgow - Architects Page & Park - int shots of Glasgow centre, people visiting - talking head patient about using centre - more int and ext gvs - shots of Glasgow centre garden, Charles Jencks talking to Maureen Fee - Centre Head, Maggie's Glasgow - Fee talks about Evening Times fund-raising campaign for centre - c/u shots of sculpture (13.25) gvs of Charles and Maggie Jencks' garden - Portrack, Dumfriesshire - David Page - Architect, Maggie's Highlands talking to Charles Jencks at Portrack about design for Highlands centre - v/o Maggie Keswick Jencks on "The Chinese Garden" over gvs of same - Page and Charles Jencks discussing plans for Highlands centre - computer graphic simulation of Maggie's Highlands - Raigmore Hospital, Inverness (15.53) gv Charing Cross Hospital, London - design still of Maggie's London - Charing Cross Hospital - Richard Rogers Partnership - Blakenham talking in office to Richard Rogers - Architect, Maggie's London about his friendship with Jencks - colour drawings of int spaces in centre (17.33) shots of Bob Geldof arriving for opening of Maggie's Centre in Dundee - press photographers with architect Frank Gehry - talking head Frank Gehry - Architect, Maggie's Dundee at press conference about design stages of building - gvs of Dundee centre, Gehry talks about his hopes for the building and inspiration from a Vermeer painting - gvs details of roof structure - gvs centre and Ninewells Hospital behind (21.09) talking head Bob Geldof and Laura Lee about Gehry's design - ext and int gvs of building - shots of Jencks' daughter Lily working in Gehry's office - shots of patients in garden of Edinburgh centre, talking about effects of centre - talking heads patients about atmosphere in centre - ecs - still of Jencks - Scottish Screen Lottery ident (25.13)