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Title: CLOSER WE GET, the

Reference number: 13876

Date: 2015

Director: d. Karen Guthrie

Sponsor: Creative Scotland

Production company: A Somewhere Film

Sound: sound

Certificate: U

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 87.00 mins

Description: Before it’s too late, a family that never really talked - starts to.

This is a powerful and bittersweet portrait of loyalty, broken dreams and redemption told by its director, reluctantly-dutiful daughter Karen, who takes you under the skin of the household she returns to for this long goodbye.
[Synopsis taken from the film's website https://thecloserweget.com/press-kit, last accessed 12/10/2021]

Catalogued from secondary sources including The Closer We Get website [https://thecloserweget.com/ last accessed 06/10/2021] and Creative Scotland.

[Awards
Best International Feature (Hot Docs 2015)
Best Feature (SMHAFF 2015)
Best UK Feature (Open City 2015)
Women Filmmakers Award (LA Diversity Film Festival 2016)
Special Jury Award (Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival 2016)
Official Award (Budapest International Documentary Festival 2016)]

Credits: [©: Karen Guthrie & Somewhere 2015

A Somewhere Film produced by karen guthrie & nina pope
written & directed by karen guthrie
director of photography: nina pope
cinematography: karen guthrie & nina pope
editor: alice powell
sound recording: karen guthrie
sound design: doug haywood
original score written, arranged & produced by malcolm middleton
additional camera: kate reid & adam sutherland
post production: splice.tv
titles: andrew white
digital compositing: damian shields
poster design: koby barhad
production assistants: anne carlin & samantha towle
post-production assistant: maria duvidzon
website assistant: zoë guthrie
executive advisor: amy hardie]