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Title: WHERE YOU'RE MEANT TO BE

Reference number: 13888

Date: 2016

Director: d. Paul Fegan

Sponsor: Creative Scotland

Production company: Better Days

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 76 mins

Description: Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs. But he doesn’t count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart – a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat’s folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for updating. She does not. With Stewart’s wrath ringing in his ears, Moffat embarks on a road trip that finds him dressed for battle in a Highland graveyard, caught between feuding monster-hunters at Loch Ness, and singing in a dismissive farmer’s kitchen – before facing Stewart in his home-town of Glasgow for an unlikely final showdown, in this funny wee film about music and death. [Synopsis taken from the film's website, http://whereyouremeanttobe.com/about-the-film/synopsis/, last accessed, 19/10/2021]

Catalogued from various secondary sources including the BFI archive, the 'Where You're Meant to Be' website, Creative Scotland and the Scottish Documentary Institute.

[NOMINATED – Best Breakthrough Producer – BIFA 2016
WINNER – Silver Hugo for Best Documentary – Chicago Int’l Film Fest 2016]

Credits: [Cast
narration by Moffat, Aidan
featuring Moffat, Aidan
featuring Sheila Stewart
featuring Stevie Jones
featuring Jenny Reeve
featuring James Graham
featuring Michael John McCarthy
featuring Carrick 800 Battle Re-enactment Society
featuring Norman MacDonald
featuring Norman Campbell
featuring Donald John Mackay
featuring Joe Aitken
featuring Geordie Murison
featuring Couper, Danny
featuring Liam Griffin
featuring George Edwards
featuring Steve Feltham
featuring Bill Wells
featuring Iain MacDonald
featuring Tom Joyce
featuring Linda Craig
Credits
Unknown:
Directed by Paul Fegan
© A Better Days Production Ltd
Production Company Better Days
In association with Creative Scotland
In association with Scottish Documentary Institute
Executive producer 422 TV
Commissioned as part of Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme
Supported by National Lottery through Creative Scotland
Distribution Ellen Tolsma
Festival Distribution Finlay Prestell
Executive Producer Mark Thomas
Executive Producer Stewart Henderson
Executive Producer Sonja Henrici
Executive Producer Noé Mendelle
Produced by Paul Fegan
Production Supervisor Kim Higgins
Production Accountant Smart Advice
Business Affairs for Creative Scotland Mark Wilson
Archive Research Nessa Dundon
Written by David Arthur
Written by Paul Fegan
Cinematography Julian Schwanitz
Additional Camera Paul Fegan
Additional Camera Ryan Blackwood
Additional Camera Jack Cocker
Additional Camera Michael Sherrington
Additional Camera Maurice O'Brien
Additional Camera Blair Young
Additional Camera Leo Bruges
Additional Camera David Arthur
Additional Camera Chris Leslie
Aerial Photography Peter Keith
[Stills] Photography Neale Smith
Edited by David Arthur
Prop Maker Rob Evans
Colourist Ian Ballantyne
Original Score Stevie Jones
Original Score Jenny Reeve
Original Score Michael John McCarthy
Additional Score Recorded by Jim Neilson
Concerts Mixed by Paul Savage
Sound Recordist Jack Coghill
Concert Sound Engineer Jim Brady
Concert Sound Engineer Niall Macaulay
Dubbing Mixer John Cobban
Sound Editor William Aikman
Additional Sound Design John Cobban
Track Lay William Cory
Narration Recorded by Geoff Allan
Marketing Ellen Tolsma
Press Relations Ruth Marsh
In memory of Sheila Stewart
Special thanks to Sheila Stewart]