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Title: SUNSET SONG

Reference number: 11155

Date: 2015

Director: d. Terence Davies

Sponsor: Magnolia Pictures, BFI, Film Fund Luxembourg, Creative Scotland and BBC Scotland

Production company: Hurricane Films, Iris Productions and Sellout Pictures

Sound: sound

Original format: 65mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 135.00 mins

Description: Sunset Song is a coming of age story about the daughter of a Scottish farmer and a family struggling to survive and torn apart by tragedy in the early 1900s. Based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. [synopsis from BBFC website]

The film was shot at locations across Aberdeenshire before moving onto further filming in Luxembourg and New Zealand. Locations used included the Kirk of St Ternan on the Arbuthnott Estate, the streets of Stonehaven and the standing stones on the Glen Muick Estate. To capture the beauty of the landscape, and showcase the Scottish locations as characters in their own right, the film-makers chose to shoot on 65mm film, a creative decision aimed at creating depth, clarity and emotional impact on the screen.

The film received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) - widely recognised as the most important film festival after Cannes - and screened in competition at the London Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival. It went on general release across the UK in early December 2015, to a string of 4 and 5 star reviews – Mark Kermode called it ‘a lyrical triumph’ – and Agyness Deyn was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer in the British Independent Film Awards 2015

[information from Creative Scotland website]

Credits: Metrodome
Fortissimo Films Production
Magnolia Pictures, BFI, Film Fund Luxembourg, Creative Scotland and BBC Scotland present a Hurricane Films, Iris Productions and Sellout Pictures production

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's

Starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan and Kevin Guthrie

sd. Marc Thill
makeup designer Katja Reinert
costume designer Uli Simon
composer Gast Waltzing
p. designer Andy Harris
line p. Victoria Dabbs
casting John Hubbard and Ros Hubbard
ed. David Charap
d. ph. Michael McDonough ASC
co-exec. p. Alice de Sousa
exec. p. Bob Last
p. Roy Boulter, Solon Papadopoulos and Nicolas Steil
adapted and d. Terence Davies