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Title: I AM BREATHING

Reference number: 13906

Date: 2013

Director: d. Emma Davie & Morag McKinnon

Sponsor: Creative Scotland, Danish Film Institute

Production company: SDI Productions, Scottish Documentary Institute

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 73 mins

Description: Within one year, Neil Platt goes from being a regular, funny, 30-something British bloke to becoming someone much more extraordinary. Completely paralyzed from the neck down, he is forced to ask questions most of us never have to face.
Neil puts together a letter and memory box for his baby son Oscar and communicates his experience and thoughts about life in a blog - and in this film, which he was determined to make.

I AM BREATHING reminds us what it is to be alive, or as Neil, with his unique sense of humor and humility put it, “a tale of fun and laughs with a smattering of upset and devastation. [Synopsis taken from the I Am Breathing presskit, https://www.iambreathing.com/media/, last accessed 04/11/21]

Catalogued from secondary sources including the BFI archive database and the 'I Am Breathing' website.

See the film's website for more information on the film and Neil's own personal experience, https://www.iambreathing.com/ [last accessed 04/11/21].

Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon won Best Director for I Am Breathing at the British Academy Scotland Awards.

The film featured in the official selection for Edinburgh International Film Festival (2013), Riverrun International Film Festival (2013), True/False Film Fest, IDFA Compeptition for Feature-Length Documentary 2012 and HotDocs 2013.

Credits: [cast member Neil Platt
Credits
Direction:
Directed by Emma Davie
Directed by Morag McKinnon
Rights:
© SDI Productions
© Danish Documentary Production ApS
Production:
Production Company SDI Productions
Production Company Scottish Documentary Institute
In co-production with Danish Documentary Production
Supported by Creative Scotland
Supported by Danish Film Institute
In association with/Developed and supported by Channel 4
In association with/Developed and supported by Wellcome Trust
In association with/Developed and supported by MND Association
In association with/Developed and supported by DR
In association with/Developed and supported by YLE
Made with the support of/Developed and supported by UK Film Council
In co-operation with DR International Sales
Developed and supported by National Lottery through Creative Scotland
Executive Producer Noé Mendelle
Producer Sonja Henrici
Co-producer Sigrid Dyekjaer
Associate Producer Justin Edgar
Associate Producer Alex Usborne
Production Executive Leslie Finlay
Production Executive Becky Lloyd
Bussiness Affairs Linda McClure
Film Commissioner Klara Grunning-Harris
[Production Executive] Tom Ziessen
[Production Executive] Lisa Lazareck
[Production Executive] Elaine Gallagher
[Production Executive] Brian Dickie
Commissioning Editor Mette Hoffman Meyer
Commissioning Editor Jenny WestergÅrd
Production Manager Aisling Ahmed
Production Manager Rebecca Day
Production Manager Finlay Pretsell
Production Manager Flore Cosquer
Producer of Marketing and Distribution Kempas, Ben
Post-production Supervisor (UK) Fiona Reid
{Post-production} Co-ordinator Signe Baasch
Production Assistant Martha Appelt
Production Assistant Islay Roberts
Photography:
Filmed by Emma Davie
Additional Camera Ian Dodds
Additional Camera Kenneth Simpson
Additional Camera Graham Day
Additional Camera Johann Perry
Additional Camera Julian Schwanitz
Underwater Camera Fiona Reid
Special Effects:
Graphics Danny Carr
Animation:
Animation Peter Shaw
Editing:
Editor Peter Winther
Additional Editing Emiliano Battista
Additional Editing Mikael K. Ebbesen
Additional Editing James Alcock
Senior Editing Consultant Billeskov Jansen, Janus
[Final Cut Pro] Support and Online Kasper Folman
Design:
Digital Post-production (Denmark) Beopost DK
Post-production Delivery Brian Suttie
Post-production Delivery 422.tv
Architectural Drawing Alex Cearsky
Film processing:
Colourist Norman Nisbet
Music:
Composer Kieran Hebden
Composer Jim Sutherland
Sound:
Sound Morag McKinnon
Additional Sound Geoff Price
Additional Sound Oliveira, Marcelo de
Re-recording Mixer Micheal MacKinnon
Sound Designer McDougall, Douglas
Sound Editor Micheal MacKinnon
Voice Recording Alistair George
Consultant:
Scientific Consultant Chris Shaw
Miscellaneous:
In memory of Neil Platt]