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Title: SEVEN SONGS FOR A LONG LIFE

Reference number: 13897

Date: 2015

Director: filmed by Amy Hardie

Sponsor: Creative Scotland and Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund

Production company: SDI Productions

Sound: sound

Certificate: 12A

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 147 mins

Description: The intimate story behind our changing relationship with death. A terminal diagnosis used to mean death within months. Modern medicine allows patients to live on for years. Seven Songs for A Long Life is a passionate and touching film about uncertainty, about the future that faces all of us, following five patients who choose to sing their way through life.

Catalogued from primary and secondary sources including the Seven Songs for a Long Life website, The University of Edinburgh and the BBC programme index.

Amy Hardie (Director)
“Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to help face your own mortality,
making the process of dying itself safe, individual, and
as gentle as possible"

Opening Credits: "Strathcarron is one of the biggest hospices in Scotland, serving a large industrial and rural part of the country.
Amy Hardie became the filmmaker in residence in the Day Care ward.
At first the patients didn't want to talk to her.
They then found their voice"

See here for the Seven Songs for a Long Life website, https://www.sevensongsfilm.com/ [last accessed, 26/10/2021].

Credits: [Director:
Amy Hardie
Producer:
Sophie Henrici
Composer:
Mark Orton]

BBC Scotland
Creative Scotland
present

SDI Productions
Scottish Documentary Institute
Amy Hardie Productions

in association with Bertha Foundation
Yle - Finland

[With thanks to the patients and staff at Strathcarron Hospice for their courage, generosityand humour.
with: Dorene Asher, Tosh O’Donnell, Nicola & Jason McInally, Iain & Moyra Milne, Alicia Phillips, Julie & Karys Reid, Jim Brown and Mandy Malcomson
and Sharron Love, April McKinney, Jean Gow, Laura Tierney, Hazel Fraser Jenny Gilbert
~~~
Directed by Amy Hardie
Producers
Sonja Henrici
Amy Hardie
Executive Producer
Lori Cheatle
Executive Producer
for SDI Productions
Noe Mendelle
Editors
Colin Monie
Nick Gibbon
Composer
Mark Orton
Assistant Director & Sound
Rachel Hendry
Music Facilitator
Hilary Brooks
Music Supervisor
Lucy Bright
Edit
Consultant
Justine Wright
Story Consultants
Keiko Deguchi
Arash T. Riahi
Camera
Amy Hardie
Julian Schwanitz
Additional Camera
Ian Dodds
Martin Radich
Production Manager
Rachel Hendry
Production Assistants
Letitia Finizo
Demelza Kooij
Duncan Cowles
Graphics
Danny Carr
Additional Editing
David Archibald
Anthea Harvey
Sound Designer
Douglas MacDougall
Post Production & Delivery:
422.tv
Re
-
recording Mixers
John Cobban & Douglas MacDougall
Colourist
Ian Ballantyne
Outreach Producer:
Rebecca Day
supported by
BBC Scotland
Commissioning Editor
Ewan Angus
Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland
Production Executive
Leslie Finlay
Business Affairs
Mark Wilson
Legals
Joanne Stewart
Yvonne Dunn
Pinsent
Masons LLP
Bertha Foundation
Rebecca Lichtenfeld
YLE Finnish Broadcast Corporation
Commissioning Editor
Jenny Westergard
Edinburgh College of Art /
University of Edinburgh
Developed through Sources 2
Outreach:
supported by
Bertha BRITDOC Connect Fund
& Docspace
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www.sevensongsfilm.com
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© 2015 SDI Productions Ltd. / Amy Hardie Pr
oductions Ltd / Hard Working Movies LLC]