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Title: ARCADIA

Reference number: 8115

Date: 2009

Director: d. David Graham Scott

Sponsor: The National Lottery® through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, BBC Scotland, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: James Alcock

Production company: James Alcock Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.25 mins

Description: In ancient Greece Arcadia was a land of simple pastoral life. This film explores a present day Arcadia represented by a hunting estate deep within the Northern Highlands. But a proposed development of 300-foot wind turbines threaten the estate’s future. The local community is taking a stand.

Part of Season 6 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "Future".

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents A Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen, BBC Scotland and James Alcock Films

Special Thanks: Thrumster Estate, Catherine MacLeod, Islay MacLeod, Tommy Baikie, Marjory Scott, Dan Leigh-Brown, Jaelithe Leigh-Brown, Jenny Kumar

ed. Richard Poet, James Alcock
sd. designer John Lemke
online ed. Ian Ballantyne
m. supervisor James Wilkinson

Thanks to: Rebecca Day
Development Producer for Highlands & Islands Enterprise Amanda Millen
Bridging the Gap Production Manager Finlay Pretsell
exec. p. Sonja Henrici, Noe Mendelle
exec. p. for Scottish Screen Leslie Finlay
exec. p. for BBC Ewan Angus

Supported by The National Lottery® through Scottish Screen, Skillset Film Skills Fund, BBC Scotland, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh College of Art, Scottish Documentary Institute

p. and camera James Alcock

Shotlist: In ancient Greece Arcadia was a land of simple pastoral life. This documentary explores a present day Arcadia represented by a hunting estate deep within the Flow Country of the Northern Highlands.

These barren flatlands have changed little for thousands of years but are now at risk from a proposed development of 300-foot wind turbines. If the proposal goes ahead, the landscape would be radically altered and the estate’s income from falconry and other game hunting would be decimated.

The local community, however, is taking a stand.