PAPER CUTS
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Title: PAPER CUTS
Reference number: 7620
Date: 2006
Director: d. Ben Soper
Sponsor: Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland
Producer: Katie Crook
Production company: UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre presents A Little Pictures Production
Sound: sound
Original format: Digital Betacam
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 5.54 mins
Description: Obsessed with a paper effigy of his loving wife an introverted stationer lives in a fantasy world of staples and photocopies. But when the doll leaves him torn and bleeding and his real wife starts asking awkward questions he must make a choice between flesh and paper. [synopsis from Scottish Screen brochure "New Films, New Talent, Best of Scottish Shorts 2006]
Credits:
UK Film Council and Glasgow Media Access Centre presents A Little Pictures Production in association with Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland
Webster Dewi Wynne Jones
Alma Gabrielle Barker
The Kissing Couple Ash Reid & Graham Stewart
ph. and original m. Malcolm Benzie
ed. Ian Waugh
sd. design Matt Palmer
illustrations Ash Reid
make-up Julie Flowers
p. ass. Siobhan Shields
p. Katie Crook
w. and d. Ben Soper
For GMAC
GMAC director Dale Corlett
p. Ciara Barry
exec. p. Karen O'Hare
Shot on location at Rogarth & Brown the Stationers
Special thanks to Edinburgh Film Focus, Aimee Jack, Claire Thacker, Chris Dennis, Dee Custance, Frances Benton, Helen Jones, Liz & Ron Beard, Michael Fife, Russell Beard, Lynsey Sutherland and Tom Shields, Wullie Summers.
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