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Title: BIG LIE, the

Reference number: 8109

Date: 2006

Director: d. Peter Everett

Sponsor: Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Edinburgh College of Art and Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Peter Everett

Production company: Coyote Media

Sound: sound

Original format: DVCam

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.00 minsc

Description: Between 1936 and 1939 several hundred Scottish men and women went to fight as volunteers on the side of the Spanish Republic against the fascist regimes then spreading throughout Europe. Interviewing one of the last surviving members of the Scottish International Brigades, this short documentary explores the legacy of this movement and their fight against fascism. [synopsis from Scottish Documentary Institute website]

Part of Season 3 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Lies".

View full film online at http://www.docscene.org/the-big-lie.html [last accessed 9/4/2010]

Credits: With great thanks to Steve Fullarton (Brigadista 1938 - 39)

exec p. Noe Mendelle
ed. Sara Paniagua Pascual
sd. and camera Peter Everett, Sara Paniagua Pascual
graphics Vivi Gomez
sd. design Pepe Dominguez
lighting and grip services Neil Scullion, Heather Massie
best boy Michael Everett
archive Contemporary Films, ITN, Scottish Living Memory Association, Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org)

With thanks to Ella Meechan, Steve Sprung, Maria Paniagua, Audrey Canning, Marlene Sidaway, Iain MacDougall, Keith Brown, Tommy Campbell

For Mary Everett

A Bridging the Gap production supported by the Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Edinburgh College of Art and Scottish Documentary Institute

Copyright Coyote Media 2006.